Comments on: The Miraculous Way To Make More Time To Train Your Dog

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:02:07 +0000

I love how you incorporate training throughout the whole day. I try to keep that in mind all day, too. It’s especially important with my new dog because she’s so wild that getting the time right to reinforce the behaviors I want is tricky!

By: Jan K

Jan K — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 23:41:20 +0000

In reply to Pamela. I've lost most of my clickers since we moved. I know they're here somewhere....but where? Being able to hang it on a hook will make it much easier to find again!

By: Christine Caplan

Christine Caplan — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 04:48:59 +0000

There are so many great tips in here. I like your tip – always have treats on you. Before living with “reactive” dogs I didn’t do this and now I always have something awesome on my person. This helps training in the moment for sure. I also like you tips the “with me” and sitting at every cross street. My sister did that with her Lab until it was clockwork. I’m lazy and haven’t done that so I’ll start that tomorrow!

By: Lindsay Pevny

Lindsay Pevny — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:10:51 +0000

Daily training is such a habit that I forget that I’m reinforcing skills every day – like when I take pictures of the dogs, they know to look when my phone comes out! Even just asking them to sit patiently before they go out the door is a little training moment.

By: AngelCallie, Shadow, and Ducky's Mom

AngelCallie, Shadow, and Ducky's Mom — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 15:40:36 +0000

I really do try to do this with Ducky. But it’s not easy to work on her “quiet” when the male human is barking back at her more loudly than she was barking in the first place. ? So, when all is quiet, I have to remind myself to reward BOTH of them.

Shadow has mellowed out over the years, especially since Callie got her angel wings, so I rarely have to ask her to be quiet. ?

By: Clowie

Clowie — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 08:06:38 +0000

This is great advice. We see so many people walking their dog and paying the dog no attention at all. It’s so much more fun, for dogs and humans, with some training and games thrown in.

When I was a puppy, my biped would work on ‘stay’ with me while she was preparing the cat food. You can’t get a bigger distraction than cat food!

By: Ginny

Ginny — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 05:53:26 +0000

Am enjoying your adventures and hearing about how you train Honey…she is a beauty. We had a wonderful yellow Lab, but we lost him over a year ago and have since rescued a dog…our first hound! She is coming along, but still have a lot of trouble when on the leash and we dare not just let her run or she is gone out of sight. Never had this problem with the 5 black Labs or the yellow one we had. We could let them out and they’d stay in the yard, but this hound puts her nose to the ground and takes off. She comes back but after she has found something really smelly to roll in first. We are getting too old for this but she is in our heart now.

By: Monika & Sam

Monika & Sam — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 02:34:05 +0000

In reply to Pamela. They both tend to stick to me like shadows although I note two of the past 3 mornings, Ms. Ninja ran lickety-split down the alley. #ohthatdog! Thankfully her recall is pretty good. Most of the time. Ok, some of the time. But we 'practice' everyday. :)

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 01:44:31 +0000

This post should be required reading for new dog owners. I’ve seen so many people work very hard to teach bad habits and practices to their dogs. Of course these same people manage to ruin their children too.

By: Tenacious Little Terrier

Tenacious Little Terrier — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 00:06:44 +0000

I would say Mr. N’s recall is also about 97 percent. He doesn’t get to cross roads without me either. And yes, photo stays are very important! Thanks for joining the hop.