Teach Your Dog to Retrieve Everyday Items
What if your dog could bring you his/her bowl—or even a beer? Training a dog to retrieve everyday items is…
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Shelter Enrichment for Cats: The Target Game
The shelter environment is stressful for dogs, and for the people who work there, but the environment is especially stressful…
Teaching Foundation Behaviors: Introducing Recall
A reliable recall, or come when called, behavior is one of the most important foundation behaviors. Mastered, it lets your…
Setting Your Dog Up for Success with Oral Medication
Does your dog resist oral medication? If so, you are not alone. Most dogs (like people) don’t enjoy swallowing pills.…
Using Paired Cues to Accelerate Learning
When you think of training new behaviors, you think of training one behavior at a time. For example, in one…
Fun and Functional Puppy Socialization
An umbrella snapping open during a rainstorm. A walker rolling along a sidewalk. These are a few of the many…
Teach Your Cat to Go to Mat: Part 1
Thinking about training your cat? Why not teach your cat to go to a mat? This behavior has many applications:…
Teaching Foundation Behaviors: Stay
Teaching your dog to stay, an essential foundation behavior, is an investment that will be valuable in a variety of…
Teaching Trick Behaviors: Mic Targeting with Duration
Canine freestyle champion Michele Pouliot is known for using innovative trick behaviors in her entertaining routines. One of the foundation…
Karen Pryor Academy Announces Five New Faculty Members
Waltham, MA, September 9, 2020—Karen Pryor Academy (KPA) is pleased to welcome five new faculty members to its world-renowned Dog…
Teach Non-Verbal and Verbal Cues
New trainers often ask which cues should they use in their training: verbal cues or a non-verbal cues. The answer…
Teach Your Dog How to Give Eye Contact
One of the first steps of training any behavior is to teach your dog to focus his/her attention on you.…