Have you heard of Chaser, the dog who knows 1,000 words? There’s a neat article that was published on the Scientific American blog earlier this week about Chaser and her owner and trainer, Dr. John Pilley. You can find the full article on their site here. Most media reports about Chaser have focused on Chaser’s […]
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Dogs, horses, and rats. Birds, goldfish, cats. Dolphins, raccoons, and elephants. What animals can’t we train? In this section you’ll find lots of great training stories and tips. You will also get to meet many of the wonderful animals that I get to train. I hope that you’ll enjoy reading about my adventures (and misadventures) and that these articles and tales can provide you with insight that will help you with your own animals.
Training for performance
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
A few new ratties
Well, I recently (about a week ago) got two new pet rats. These two came from an acquaintance who I know online. She had bought several new rats from a local pet store and ended up with two “oops” litters of baby rats. She’s been trying to find good homes for all of the babies. […]