Nesta's BOSSDOG Blog

PlayN’Train

PlayN’ Train with Walk A Pup! It’s a time for your dogs to be social, play indoors, and go through a variety of obedience exercises! How is this done?! We incorporate many training games and tasks throughout the day, such as basic obedience (sits, downs and...

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Reliable Responses

Creating reliable responses from our pets does not take rocket science, sorcery, batteries, or dominance.  It does help understanding how a dog learns though, and definitely takes consistency.  There is a simple method in training that can drastically increase how reliable a dog responds though and yes, it comes down to consequences!!!  Not the...

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Problem Behaviors

Problem behaviors become problematic habits over time when fed the right reinforcement.  Usually that reinforcement is inadvertent.

       We use our recall command to get them in from the back yard too many times, and they no longer respond to it.  It doesn’t pay as much as the yard. Soon they run...

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Successful Training Sessions

Keep your training session successful by following these rules of thumb.
-practice your training exercises in a non-distracting environment so your dog stays focused.
-use high value of food that the dog does not get regularly, so the dog stays motivated.
-train for short periods at a time. Literally 2 to 3 minutes, and then take a break....
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