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“ALL SHE WANTS IS THE TREAT” – addressing complexities of training with food

By Patti Howard, BS CCS | May 8, 2018

Training dogs with treats is good for a while

Someone out there has put a spell on us. It was, no doubt, the many years of using more traditional style training where the use of food may have been considered ‘bribery’. When I began training in the late ’80’s, I would not have considered it, though there was a man on the horizon, Dr.…

Your Dog Can’t Do Anything Wrong

By Patti Howard, BS CCS | February 20, 2017

Leash training, like any other kind of dog training, benefits both you and your dog

Your Dog Can’t Do Anything Wrong – just consider it a training opportunity What kind of feelings come up when you hear that your dog cannot do anything wrong? Does your primate kick in and defend its position in your relationship? If our dogs aren’t listening it must be because THEY are wrong! Right? From…