How to teach your excitable dog to ignore other dogs
One of the biggest problems we see out and about is out of control dogs rushing over to see people or dogs whilst the owner is a fair way...
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Teaching your dog to nose target
G'day gang! In this short session myself and Sunny show you how to teach your dog to touch your hand with their nose or as us dog...
How to stop annoying behaviours
A lot of the things dogs do are a bit annoying for us. Especially if they do them all the time. Barking, jumping up, pulling etc....
Building Reinforcers
Positive reinforcement isn’t just about treats. It’s about implementing things that are actually reinforcing as opposed to just...
How to teach a dog to drop a toy
Hey team! Video tutorial for you on how to teach your dog to drop a toy using the two toy method. Steps: 1. Have 2 identical toys so that...
Teaching Impulse Control with Toys
Video request by Ginny Potts! We talk a lot about building impulse control using toys, and how when we play with toys with our dogs it...
Building engagement and desensitising young Larry
This is Larry, he's very friendly, but too friendly - to the point where he wants to run off and say hello to everybody. Larry's owner...
Reinforcement Delivery - It Matters
The reason dogs do things comes down to reinforcement. A reward is not the same as a 'reinforcer'. A reward can be anything the dog...
Building Food Drive
I do a lot of talking in this video so I don't really need a write up. But if you have a dog that not that foody this will help!
Loose Leash Walking
Make it easy, make it fun. Set your dog up to succeed by teaching them in a location that is distraction free, then slowly generalise to...
How to Play Tug
Humans aren't notoriously great at playing tug with dogs. It's a handling skill to learn like everything else - this video will show you...
Teach a dog to settle
Here's the first part of the video for teaching your dog to settle. I've decided to use two methods, 'free shaping' and 'luring'. They...
How to teach a 'leave it'
Teaching a ‘leave it’ using the errorless learning approach. This method works really well for lots of dogs - especially ones that tend...
Where to start?
First week with Kemai, another recent foster. Here's where we started with his training.
Platform training to combat frustration 2/3
Video 2 in Chester's 3 part series looking at starting to proof his place behaviour to withstand all manner of distractions etc. What I...
Platform Training to Combat Frustration 1/3
Chester came for a 2 week long board and train to work on his compulsive tail chasing, which occurred whenever the energy in his...
Good play vs. bad play - what to look out for
Hannah recorded this little interaction between Eddie and Stella and there was so much that was going on that people might miss I thought...
When to end a session
Dog behaviour can be very subtle. Most of us will miss a lot of cues, including us trainers. Here's a breakdown of a session with Marley...
Focusing on associations, not just behaviours
In the first part, I'm creating expectations along with associations toward the car. I don't want it to JUST mean exciting things. So...
Week 1 board & train with a dog who's wary of strangers
This is Gem, a recent foster of ours. Gem was found wandering the streets with a litter of puppies, even though the vets think she's...
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