First off I apologise for the lack of posts, my life took a bit of a left hand turn back in October and has been a little consumed by new responsibilities. Funny how life does that, just when you think you have a focused track you loop bac...
Today I got a message through from a client who has been incredibly pro active in training her new pound dog Murphy. The Murph had a few typical rescue type issues such as pulling on the lead, jumping up and was a little reactive in low light situations. Just a bit you...
A recent job that Dogsquad Canine Services was contracted to do was "Jack Irish", an ABC Production. A great series with many well known faces from the Australian Television Industry as well as actors well known world wide. In a typical ABC fashion of fantastic script...
The first couple of months of a pups life is critical in imprinting who that pup will be as a dog for the rest of it's life. If you do not develop that pup along the lines of your end goals for the adult dog then you have wasted that chanc...
This is a good follow on from the last blog - Focus.
Building that drive in the dog to WANT to please you, NEED to be by your side and not just compelled to do so through correction.
We are not training robots, they are livi...
You hear this word all the time in regards to training your dog. What does it mean? Why is it such a sought after behaviour? What will it bring to your training? Do we really need it?
Look into the eyes of young Benny there...what do you see?
After much IT wrestling, digging around in my memory banks and now actually hitting the load up key we are online. There is still much to tweek and ch...