Leerburg Dog Training Blog

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 […]

I was just advised that one of my students in my upcoming spring Basic Handler’s Course is the son of one of my previous students! 29 years ago his dad and I trained his marvelous GSD for the Sheriff’s Department where they work. He had a great K-9 career and eventually moved up the ranks […]

I’ve been observing from both the inside and outside of various elements of the K-9 community the last several years. Now I started training police dogs back in the early 1980’s. I am knee deep in training nearly every day of the week and have been for decades. I am very proud of the accomplishments […]