Ed Frawley discusses Leerburg's new Black & Pink Sweatshirts and how we are donating 5% of order totals that have the Black & Pink T-shirt or Sweatshirt to the National Breast Cancer Foundation! He also talks about Leerburg's new catalog and an au...

Today's short video shows Michael Ellis' assistant Lindsey Sommer working on engagement with her puppy. What you see here is a learned endeavor with a puppy. Lindsey is teaching the puppy to stay engaged. She is giving the puppy reasons to want...

Lindsey Sommer is an employee of Michael Ellis and works in Michael's school in California. Lindsey is a gifted dog trainer, she is the first person that went through all of Michael's courses for his school. When you watch Lindsey with her dogs...

Once we start adding the command to a position, we can quickly begin fading the lure out of the equation. Fading the lure will vary from dog to dog. Some dogs will require a long gradual process, while others will quickly associate the new verbal ...

This video is a short lecture by Michael Ellis, at a Leerburg seminar, explaining why it is so important to reward your dog correctly while training the dog to heel.

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...

The stainless steel feeding saucer is perfect for your new litter of puppies. We use these feeding saucers here at Leerburg Kennels for our pups. Available in two different sizes; 11 inch diameter or 15 in diameter. We have found that the smaller ...

This short video was filmed at The Michael Ellis School for Dog Trainers in California. It is a lecture by Michael explaining his thought on rewarding a dog for how fast it completes an exercise (IE a sit in motion, down in motion, a send away, et...

Question from Erica: My 8 month old male Standard Poodle has recently challenged me by biting me twice. We adopted him from a family that neglected him during the first 16 weeks of his life, leaving him unsocialized and with some behavioral issues...

This video shows the same puppy being worked in bite development with Michael Ellis at 8 weeks and 10 months.

This video is taken from the online course and DVD, Basic Dog Obedience. Engagement means your dog is totally 100% focused on you and he/she wants what you have. Engagement is not only a prerequisite to obedience training; it is the key to how you...