by Tena Parker | Jan 30, 2013 | Basic Training Tips, Foster Dogs, photo blog
If You Want Something, DO Something “Wow, why won’t my dog walk like that!” said the man who stopped me while walking Rio down a busy sidewalk earlier this year. I know I’ve written it time and time again, but my response was,...
by Tena Parker | Jan 28, 2013 | Basic Training Tips, Foster Dogs, Video blog
101 Things To Do With A Box Looking for a fun winter-time activity to burn some mental and physical energy with out freezing your toes off outside or making Fido get too amped up on the house? Have you ever thought about playing with a box? 101 things to do with a...
by Tena Parker | Jan 22, 2013 | Basic Training Tips, Foster Dogs
Training Sequence Makes a Difference I honestly have never given too much thought to the order in which I train behaviors. I know what behaviors I value, what behaviors are easy to train, what behaviors I’d like as default behaviors, and what behaviors...
by Tena Parker | Jan 7, 2013 | Basic Training Tips, Foster Dogs, Training
Foundational Behaviors Linus has been with me for 8 days now and he’s continuing to settle in nicely. He took his first walk around the block the other day and with the added confidence of being with the other dogs, he did a pretty good job! I also...
by Tena Parker | Dec 28, 2012 | Basic Training Tips, Reinforcement
Reinforcers are Dynamic I do not really like chocolate, I mean, I’ll eat it occasionally and certainly have a few candies that I enjoy that contain chocolate but I wouldn’t go out of my way to get some. If someone were to use chocolate as a...
by Tena Parker | Apr 27, 2012 | Basic Training Tips, Blogs, clicker training, Positive Training
Ineffective Punishment pt 1 Honestly, it’s a rarity when I use any punishment for Shayne or Rio’s mistakes in basic obedience/tricks–no click is, in most instance, enough information for them to know that wasn’t what I was looking for. If they...
