Please visit my conference and seminar notes page for more notes from this seminar. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, I audited a seminar in Dallas earlier this summer with Michele Pouliot. Michele is a very talented dog trainer who has won international competitions in the sport of canine freestyle. She has also worked for […]
Archive | July, 2013
Rambunctious Rover –
Preventing Leash Reactivity
This is a guest post by my friend Ines Gaschot. Ines is a professional dog trainer, blogger, and dog owner. Ines learned firsthand about the difficulties of life with a leash reactive dog when she adopted her dog, Loker. However, because of positive reinforcement training, Ines and Loker have made a ton of progress. Ines […]
Michele Pouliot Seminar Notes
Earlier this summer, I had the opportunity to audit a two day seminar with dog trainer Michele Pouliot. The seminar was hosted by Dog City Training Center, in Addison, Texas. Michele is a very talented dog trainer who has won international competitions in the sport of canine freestyle. She also has worked for almost four […]
Would you bet me fifty dollars?
Please visit my conference and seminar notes page for more notes from this seminar. Earlier this summer, I had the chance to audit a seminar in Dallas with dog trainer Michele Pouliot. If you’re not familiar with Michele, I encourage you to check out her website. Michele is a very talented dog trainer who has […]
Using breaks to improve your training
How do you structure your training sessions? How long is each session? Do you take breaks during the session, or just train continuously? We had an interesting discussion about this recently on one of the online horse clicker training groups. This was one of the replies I wrote to the group and I thought it […]
Your opinion doesn’t count
I wrote last week that I recently purchased a copy of the updated, revised version of Sue Ailsby’s Training Levels book. Ginger dog and I are planning to work through some of the exercises in the book this summer. I’ve been reading through the first section of the book, which explains some basic (and important) […]