Engagement is the most important thing you can have with your puppy. Engagement means your puppy wants to be with you and it wants what you have. In this short video you will watch Michael Ellis and a new puppy he just got working with food and to...

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Question from Edmund: When we play tug with a dog and they chew the item or not have a full, hard bite, does this problem transition into bite work with a helper later or does it not have any relation at all?

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This lecture was filmed by Ed Frawley at Michael's school in California.

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One of our most common email questions is "Can you give me a timeline on when I should be training my dog and for what?" The answer is "NO" and this short video explains some of the reasons why.

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Dog training is an ever-evolving process. Keep up with our trainers on the new Leerburg Blog! There, you will see posts about upcoming Leerburg projects, tips for training sessions, or even random thoughts that our trainers would like to discuss. ...

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This is the second part of Michael Ellis helping a student learn marker training. He discusses the common mistakes that many students makes in trying to use MARKERS in their dog training. Leerburg has a 4 hour training DVD that can be streamed ...

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Watch Michael Ellis discuss the pros and cons of assisted shaping, or luring, and free shaping. Both techniques offer different benefits, but Michael prefers to utilize luring in most situations. Luring allows the trainer to easily manipulate the ...

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Michael Ellis teaches a trainer how to train the AKC - STAND FOR EXAM in this short video. Michael uses MARKERS to train this exercises.

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Cindy demonstrates the retrieve with her Belgian Malinois, Rush. In this short demonstration you will see Rush retrieve a variety of items of differing shape and size.

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Marker training (sometimes called clicker training) is one of the most profound systems of training dogs that I have seen in my 50 years of owning, breeding and training working dogs. In reality this is a training system that is not that diffi...

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Whistle back recalls are a great game to play with your puppy or dog. They can begin as restrained recalls when dogs are small puppies simply have a family member or friend hold the dog on a leash - as you leave call the dog call the dog and enti...

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Part 2 The image quality of this streaming video is nowhere near the quality it was when it was originally filmed. It is also nowhere near the quality of our current Leerburg training DVDs. Many of the older dog shows and competitions were ...

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