Michael Ellis on How to Build Food Drive in Dogs

In this clip, Michael Ellis discusses hunger drive and getting your dog to a place where you can manipulate that drive. Many people overfeed their dogs and then think their dog has no drive for food/treats when training. The reality is if your dog isn't hungry then food/treats have no value.

This clip is one of many that came from Advanced Concepts in Motivation with Michael Ellis. This course is available as an online self-study course.CLICK HERE to sign up!

When people have specific training questions we recommend that they go to our website and post those questions in the ASK CINDY on the front page of leerburg.com. Cindy has been training dogs since she was a teenager and has competed in several dog sports at a regional and national level. She was also a vet tech and owned a boarding/training and grooming business for many years as well as breeding working Dobermans and Belgian Malinois under the kennel name Kaiserhaus. Questions posted to ASK CINDY are answered almost every day. They are also recorded in our systems if a dog owner has additional questions Cindy will review the previous Q&As and this helps her give better feedback and assistance. Ask Cindy!