Capturing is a training technique that is simply waiting for our dogs to do something we like and then reinforcing it. It’s an incredibly straight-forward training strategy, and also can be an incredibly effective one – win-win! To use this technique, next time you’re with your dog, pay attention to what she is doing. Whenever...
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Dogs are always learning. Dogs learn from their environment and from the results of their interactions with it. The environment includes everything around them. We are a part of their environment, just as cats, cars, other dogs, sounds, smells and tastes are. Like all animals, dogs zero in on the things in their environment that...
For many dogs, jumping up on their people is a favorite pastime. Whether your dog excitedly jumps up on you when you get home (like mine!) or jumps to greet new people out on walks, jumping up on humans can become a behavior that is hard to prevent. It is preventable, but it can take...
Last month we looked at the question – What is a dog? This month we’re going to tackle – What is a puppy? Just as with us humans, a toddler isn’t a miniature adult, and a puppy isn’t a miniature dog. Their bodies are different than adult bodies and their behavior is different than adult...
What is a dog? This is one of those questions we trainers think about a lot. We know some things that dogs aren’t – they aren’t wolves, they aren’t a toddler, and they don’t have programmable software. They are often part of our family and our daily lives, but why do they do what they...
Most dogs learn to sit pretty fast. It is often the very first thing we teach a dog. When we teach a dog to sit we’re teaching them to put their bottom on the ground, often lining up directly in front of us to receive the treat. Excellent! The challenges come when things start to...
Over the last few months, our Behavior of the Month articles have focused on Dog-People Greetings and the reasons many dogs like to jump on people when they meet them. During this series on greetings, we’ve been specifically discussing dogs who jump up because they like people, in contrast to those dogs who jump up...
For the last two months, we’ve focused on ways to help dogs greet each other (Part 1) and ways to help them greet us as their owners (Part 2). This month we are taking a look at ways to help dogs greet other people when we are out and about with them in the real...
This month we’d like to focus on a particular situation that is common with dogs and one that involves jumping up during a greeting. The situation we have in mind is one many dog owners face on a daily basis, returning home to your dog after a prolonged separation of some kind. This typically involves...
Last month we took a look at how we make Dog-Dog greeting as comfortable as possible in the Doggy Business LLC play groups. This month, we’re going to follow up with Dog-People greetings, and specifically address jumping. Why do dogs jump when they’re greeting people? The answer is – for many, many reasons. That’s part...
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