Training Tips

Clients rarely come to me asking to teach a behaviour. Usually I’m asked to stop behaviours. ‘I want to stop her pulling on the lead’ in comparison to ‘I’d like her to walk next to me’, ‘I want to stop him running off’ rather than ‘I’d like to teach him a good recall’. I’m good […]

There are so many variables when it comes to raising a puppy, especially if you want to do everything right. Here I explain what I consider to be the best way of raising a puppy as a pet dog owner and why this leads to the perfect puppy.  1. Contact a trainer before you buy

In my training journey, I’ve learnt that the more you set dogs up to make the correct choices and reward the hell out of those correct choices, the better a time you’re going to have as the trainer of that dog. For example, back before I was a dog trainer and took Pumba to classes,

Tracking your training is a really important step to ensure that your dog is progressing in something you want to improve. This is particularly important if the behaviour you’re addressing is one that you find undesirable because it gives you an objective measure of improvement. This means that you don’t feel like the behaviour is

As we head into the New Year and we’re all thinking about our goals for the year (in my case 90% of them happen to be dog related!), I thought I’d write a bit about how to easily fit training into a busy day. The more training becomes part of your daily life, the more

In keeping with last week’s blog post about how to fit more training into a busy schedule, I thought I’d attempt to write about the Premack Principle. This principle was the work of David Premack, who originally used it to work with great apes. I personally found this concept very difficult to get my head

It can be a daunting thought to sit down and think of what I need to teach my dogs on a ‘normal’ day, particularly since both of these dogs have a handful of problem behaviours that need addressing. This has become increasingly more difficult when attempting to set up a dog training business, working on