Here is a brief list of ways to train your dog. The list corresponds closely to the approach we have found effective in our training school. The basic concepts — be consistent with the language and physical signals you use, be persistent recognizing that it may take repetitions for your dog to learn what you want, praise your dog for compliance,The list was published on the website of a New York state newspaper.
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A task for this weekend
Before you put the holiday decorations away, engage your dog with them. You will get a nice memory of the holiday, and some ‘stay’ practice, too. Here are some examples.
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- Holiday portriats for your dog
Create ‘jobs’ for dogs – they will love it
Dogs like jobs — ones you create for them or ones they make for themselves. The former is better. In this picture Ace is to find the ‘object’ inside one of the boxes. Here is a link to a blog post from Becky Lovejoy about other ways to engage your dog. It reduces problem behavior caused by boredom. Think of a dog’s senses — sight, smell, hearing, touch — what activities will put those to work. Hide and seek?
Holiday decorations & dog pictures
Before you put away the lights and other decorations, take a few minutes to drape them around your dog, or get the dog to pose in other situations. You’ll have fun and already have some pictures for next year’s holiday card. Of course, you can then start setting up pictures at other occasions during the year.
‘Leave it’ – highly useful lesson
At this holiday season there surely are lots of things in the house one wants to have the dog leave alone. Curbing a dog’s counter surfing is a common goal. One can teach the ‘Leave it’ command as a follow-on to the ‘Stay’ exercise. This is one of the lessons in our beginning courses. You can apply that command to the leaving things on the table, as we are doing with this Dobe to curb his table surfing.
We’ve published pictures from our Dec holiday show
Here is the link to photo highlights of our December 2015 holiday show. We had 54 dogs and their people participating. We invite you to join our group and the fun we have while teaching the dogs important obedience lessons.
Cast picture at our holiday show
Some 40 people and more than 50 dogs pose at the conclusion of our three-day holiday show December 6, 2015.
Holiday social manners for pets
Holidays and pets — lots of dos and don’ts. This cute Wall Street Journal story describes a pet holiday dinner party at a dog school in New York City. http://goo.gl/Cbbtv1
The impact of pets on children
What is the impact of a family pet on children? Those of us with pets and kids believe there are many positive benefits. Now, this UK health care publisher summarizes formal research on that subject that suggests children with pets have less stress. http://
Celebrating the life of Moss
We are mourning the death and celebrating the life of dear Moss, Senior. He died November 28th on his farm in Dalguise, Scotland, at age 12. He is the father of our Border Collies [https://dogschooling.com/about-us/our-border-collies/]. In our visit in 2012, we got a demonstration of his remarkable herding skill on a rainy August afternoon — https://youtu.be/yay2IY29VVs