How to Create a Safe Place for Your Dog: Part 2
In Part 1 of How to Create a Safe Place for Your Dog, KPA faculty member Debbie Martin demonstrated how…
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Teach Your Dog a Controlled Retrieve
Is your dog obsessed with chasing balls and toys? It’s tempting to try and wear out your dog by mindlessly…
Teaching Verbal Cue Discrimination
As trainers, we need to be able to depend on our dogs’ ability to respond to the correct verbal cue…
Flip the Switch with Shaping
Shaping, teaching a new behavior by breaking it down in small increments, is an essential tool for teaching complex (and…
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…
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…
How to Paddle Board with Your Dog
Looking for a fun activity to do with your dog this summer? Stand-up paddle boarding (SUP) can provide an awesome…
Teach Your Dog to Put Toys Away
Are you always tripping over dog toys? Did you know that, according to the CDC, tripping over dog toys caused…
Creating a Two-Part Sequence
If your dog is fluent in more than one behavior, those individual behaviors can be linked together by learned cues…
The Power of Environmental Cues
All behavior is impacted by the environment. Even if the trainer does nothing consciously, the animal will still perceive cues…
How to Teach Your Dog Not to Beg at the Table
One of the most common problems that pet owners want to solve is how to teach their dogs not to…
Teach Your Dog to Cheek Target
What types of useful behaviors can you teach with targeting? In last week’s blog Teaching Your Dog to Hand Target,…