Leerburg Dog Training Blog

So, the newest worry law enforcement has in regards to K-9 applications is the expanding number of states that have decriminalized or legalized marijuana. Now, here is my political stance on this….it is all about money, money, and more money. It defies the public efforts in regards to intoxicated driving, workplace safety, and health. But, […]

As often comes along, the discussion about the use of positive reinforcement training only in the working dog community rages. Interestingly, I find that among LE instructors we are pretty damned good at teaching dogs new behaviors such as detection and tracking, and bite work. It is part and parcel of the LE K-9 instructors […]

Over the past 9 years we have seen a definite decline in customers buying dog training DVDs in favor of purchasing online courses or streaming video-on-demand of the DVDs.  Both new mediums have their benefits over DVDs. Online courses have benefits over video-on-demand. I believe in less than 10 years there will not be any […]

I am in the process of turning the 2008 DVD  (and video stream) titled THE POWER OF TRAINING DOGS WITH MARKERS into an online course. Since 2003 we have considered ourselves reward based balanced dog trainers (thanks to Michael Ellis) The key word in that description is “BALANCED”. Which means that while our learning-phase of […]