Social/conflict aggression in dogs.
Many clients come to me due to this issue occurring in the household and are rightly concerned Aggression from your pet dog towards...
Helper Dogs
A few months back I picked up our new Pup, Banshee at 8 weeks of age. A Rottweiler bred by Mary at Stevmar kennels whose blend of...
Understanding your Dog's Drives
An analogy I use with Clients as far as their dog's drive/energy/arousal levels is that is is like gearing in a car. When you first learn...
Allowing opportunity to decompress
I was going to name this as the 4th method of reinforcement, think of this topic as you will as everybody will have their own version of...
Building Relationship
Where do I start?? The key to most things in life is relationship, be it dog training, marriage, team sports, working as part of a group...
The Trinity of Reinforcement:
For us to teach a new behaviour that is wanted, strengthen an existing behaviour or to substitute a more appropriate behaviour for one...
Shame, guilt, embarrassment and fear....
These are emotions that we usually have little control over but sadly they disable learning and the ability to have confidence in...
Back to Basics Part 1: Initial consult aims
I keep getting asked do I have written content to give to clients in a consult so that they can then read it later. Well...I used to have...
Snake Safe Training
There are many trainers out there that have their own version of this concept as is to be expected, we all have our own way of...
Post Covid stressors
With all of the country gradually opening up and with the restrictions easing, then people are wanting to go back to 'normal' life and...