Puppies have so much to learn and it’s important to start them off as soon as possible. Socialization, for example, has a small window of opportunity, and that window needs to be exploited. There are many behaviors a puppy needs to learn. Housetraining and impulse control are two big ones to start. And as cute as they are, puppies have razor sharp teeth and they need to learn where to use them. Before your puppy gets to practice habits that {Read More}
Housetraining A Dog
January 2, 2014 by
Do you have a new puppy who needs housetraining? Have you adopted an adult dog whose house training skills are rusty? Or perhaps your dog was never completely housebroken, and you want to start fresh to housetrain your dog right. Even a senior dog can be house trained or re-housetrained. As long as a dog is in good health, s/he can be housetrained. The most efficient path to a housetrained dog is through Love Wags A Tail’s Housetraining 123 board-and-train {Read More}
Dog Training Fun and Social Facilitation from Frasier, RDWRER
December 29, 2013 by
I think my all-time favorite television show has got to be Frasier. The writing, cast, and especially the well-trained JRTs, Eddie and in later episodes, Enzo, made it a fabulous comedy series. I still haven’t watched all the episodes, and came across this one a couple days ago and have watched it four times already. It’s Frasier‘s Happy New Year episode of the millennium, and JRT Eddie had a couple of fabulous moments in the plot that were laugh-out-loud pleasures. {Read More}
The Investment of Training A Dog
December 23, 2013 by
People occasionally call me for help after having had bad experiences with dog trainers who’ve made no difference in the behaviors of their dogs or even made their dogs worse. These people needed help, unwittingly invested in ineffective and/or inappropriate training and lost money while their dog was handled carelessly. In some professions, this would be called negligent. But… Dog training is an unregulated profession, and formal education, experience, nor certification is required for a person to call themselves a professional {Read More}
Behavior Chains in Dog Training
December 21, 2013 by
Here’s a fun, one-minute video of training bits of a behavior chain. What’s a behavior chain? It’s separately trained behaviors that when put together make a finished product. For example, teaching a dog to lie down, grab a blanket, hold the blanket, roll over, and cover himself. That’s a behavior chain: Many smaller behaviors that when connected, make one big, fluid behavior. The dogs and I train daily. They love training as much as I do. Here are those snippets {Read More}
