Once you’ve taught your dog a behavior, add distractions slowly, so the dog can perform the behavior when faced with a better option. For example, my two Dobermann and our boarder Doodle were out for exercise this afternoon, and my girl, Emilie, was the first to notice one of our marauding gopher tortoise friends along the fence line. She went into stealth mode and slowly crept up on it. This was a hard maneuver to watch without breaking out into {Read More}
Food Rewards From The Trainer and The Sky
July 13, 2019 by
When you are working on eliciting a certain behavior from your dog, you’ll want to reward it around the clock. For example, the dog who jumps up for attention. When he approaches and keeps four paws on the ground, that’s big news and time to praise and reward. But we can’t always have food handy in our pockets, so make sure to keep small, tightly sealed containers of dog training food around the house. When your dog is offering a {Read More}
Use a Variety of Food For Training Dogs
July 8, 2019 by
When training your dog, or maintaining the training when your dog comes home from a customized Love Wags A Tail board-and-train boot camp, be sure to have a wide variety of food rewards at your disposal. Why? Because when you are competing against bigger distractions, you need an outstanding food reward your dog will focus. Otherwise, his focus will wander off on the distraction. He will work to get the reward that appeals to him at any time: whether it {Read More}
Reward Good Behavior To Get Good Behavior
May 29, 2019 by
Behaviors that you like from your dog or puppy need to be rewarded not ignored. For example, when your puppy approaches and sits in front of you, load him up with praise and goodies. Food is especially rewarding. Tell your dog how great he is. Because if all you do is notice the naughty behaviors, you’ll get more of that. I have watched clients push their dogs and puppies off them over and over again when the animal jumps up. {Read More}
Remembering My Dobermann Pippin
February 24, 2019 by
Pippin was a sweet and the smallest of my Dobermann. I adopted her from the Miami Dade animal shelter in 2003. She was part of my family for twelve years and passed away on this day, February 24, in 2015. She was 12 years old then, so she would have been 16 years old today had I been so lucky to have her still. I post my dogs birthdays in my Google calendar so I’m emailed reminders. Most birthdays I {Read More}
