Posts in Professional Dog Training

People who use a remote collar as a bigger hammer do an injustice to their dogs and to good dog trainers all around the world. Those people are the reason remote collars are banned in many countries. This article was taken out of my online course titled Remote Collar Training for the Pet Dog Owner. […]

If you are training a pet dog and using reward-based training it is important that you understand reinforcement schedules. It is also important that pet dog trainers understand that their dogs must remain on random rewards for the rest of the dog’s life. There are several ways of rewarding our dogs: 1. Continuous Reinforcement 2. […]

It is often that I travel and work with handlers in law enforcement and even in civilian training arenas. One thing is evident as I talk with working dog practitioners and enthusiasts. The vocabulary of working dog sports and industry is an eclectic mix of science, pseudoscience, colloquialisms, jargon, and self-promotion by coining new terminology. […]

I see on numerous Facebook pages, posts, and various blogs and websites an interesting and disturbing trend. It really boils down to a couple of misconceptions among the inexperienced/un-experienced who currently advertise intensely about the work of police dogs to drum up business. First is the misconceptions about grip. The inexperienced trainer talks excesively about […]