by Tena Parker | Aug 7, 2017 | Positive Training, Rally, SJC training, Training
Well Trained Dogs Can Do More Contest! We know that we have some of the BEST students (dogs and humans) out there and we want to reward our hard working students and brag about their great accomplishments with everyone! We also want to encourage our students to get...
by Tena Parker | Jul 18, 2017 | clicker training, Dog Sports, personal, Positive Training, Puppy Fun, Rally, SJC training
Reflecting on Raising Oswin Raising puppies is hard–plain and simple. It takes an incredible amount of work to simply raise a well-adjusted dog, but when you are looking to raise a performance dog and a working dog, the stakes are that much higher and the work...
by Tena Parker | Dec 12, 2016 | Dog Sports, Rally, SJC training
Wise Choices in Dog Sports Are handlers setting their dogs and themselves up to fail by listening to old wives’ tales? I overheard a conversation recently at a training club that had me mentally furrowing my brow and shaking my head in disagreement (from...
by Tena Parker | Feb 25, 2014 | Basic Training Tips, clicker training, Dog Behavior, SJC training
The Power of Choice During this most recent stretch of frigid (though not quite the ‘extreme cold’ of a month ago), I have had to improvise the activities happening with my mid-day dog walking clients. It has simply been too cold to spend much time...
by Tena Parker | Feb 13, 2014 | Basic Training Tips, clicker training, Positive Training, SJC training, Throwback Thursday
Gotta Buy Into Training–Throwback Thursday Originally posed on 10/18/11 How many times have you heard “I’ve tried everything to get my dog to …”? I think I must hear something to that effect more than once a week from people inquiring...
by Tena Parker | Feb 11, 2014 | Basic Training Tips, equipment, Positive Training, SJC training, Training
Bigger is not always better “The more tools you have in your tool box the better. If you purposely exclude a particular tool and a problem pops up that requires that tool, you won’t be abel to fix the problem. I’m not one of those cookie pushers...
