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How To Teach Your Dog Come When Called, Gravity. Part II
Helping Amy Teach Her Dog To Come When Called When Amy called me she was desperate. ¨Hey Gabe, Daisy loves going to the park, but the minute I take her off leash she runs to the water, which as you know is pretty far¨ She told...
How To Teach Your Dog Come When Called. Part I
There are two approaches which you can use to teach your dog to ¨come¨ when called. You can also combine them. The first one is Conditioning and Training and the second one is Gravity. Let’s talk about the first one. Conditioning and training means to condition your...
How To Introduce The Leash To Your Puppy For The First Time
¨… So suddenly I hear a very weird noise, like a tornado galloping on four legs in my living room. I walk in and ¨Simba¨ is going crazy. She is running like a maniac and possessed like a poltergeist. What’s going on?! At first I thought my puppy was going crazy and I...
How To Teach Your Dog a Command
There are different ways to teach your dog commands. My preferred method is positive reinforcement or reward based techniques. Usually using food or toys. This technique is under what I refer as conditioning and training. As I explained in previous blogs this is...
Leadership and Dogs
I will first start defining what I mean by leadership. Leadership means practicing awareness, self control, decision making and accountability when you have to. By that order! I see leadership as a responsability, a service and a privilege, not an entitlement. This...
What is your dog thinking?
As a professional dog trainer and behaviorist I get a lot of very interesting stories from dog parents. For example: ¨my dog knows what’s right, but decides not to do it.¨ Or ¨My Dog is annoying me on purpose because I left him or her alone all morning in the crate....
How To Calm Your Dog Down
This is a big one!! There are many different ways to calm your dog down. In my sessions I show different techniques and ways to calm dogs down, but no technique will work if you either overuse it or you are not in control of the energy behind it. On this blog I´ll...
The Secret
“Difference between Training/Conditioning and Behavior” Your dog can know 100 "cues", "commands" and tricks and yet still have a lot of behavioral issues. This is an example of how all my clients emails start: "My dog is very sweet and smart, but ....") There is a big...
Separation Anxiety
Separation anxiety is a fairly common problem in the city. Your dog will become stressed when you leave your house or when your about to leave. The photo above is how my dog is when I leave the house. As you can see he is not very concerned. And that´s how you want...
Leash Aggression
As I mentioned in one of my previous blog, not mastering the walk with your pup can cause several problems. One of them is Leash Aggression. Let me start by explaining what leash aggression is. Leash aggression means that your dog gets aggressive when on leash. The...