This short video demonstrates free shaping a dog through marker training to pick up a piece of PVC. Free shaping means you mark behaviors that are progressively closer to the end behavior that you are looking for. In this case Cindy wants R...

This short video is of Cindy's 6 month old puppy, Endy, working whistle backs with two friends (Forrest Micke and Tim Bartlett) who trained within the same system of marker training that we do. The two significant issues of this video are that ...

This was the first year that Schutzhund USA offered a national competition for SchH I. It was held in Lafayette, IN. I edited the video with an equal number of the top SchH I dogs. This tape has the obedience routines. This is an excellent tape fo...

This video shows Cindy (from Leerburg) teaching her 12 month old puppy the sit down and stand with different reward systems - both food and the tug. Michael Ellis offers advice on ways to improve Rush's performance. This video was filmed at one of...

This short video came from a Michael Ellis seminar - in it he helps our friend (Robin Larson) and her Anika. Michael explains the difference between charging the mark and marking a lure. These are two different things. He also explains the corr...

This is the third in a short series of video lectures taken at Michael Ellis' School for Dog Trainers in California on counter conditioning sharp, shy puppies.

This is the second in the series of streaming videos on how we raise our puppies here at Leerburg. We use ExPens for a large part of our house training process. In the first video, we talked about why we use ExPens. In this video, we explain how w...

Have a look at this video of Ed & Cindy's Puppy, Endy, at 9.5 Weeks I can't tell you how often I have heard people say they would like their next puppy to be a high drive dog. My comment is usually "Be careful what you wish for because it ma...

Michael Ellis answers a question from a student on the difference between the wait command and the stay command. He explains that there are subtle differences, but that they are basically the same thing.

This is the video of the 1997 Netherlands Police Dog Championships, otherwise known as the KNPV 1 Championships. The competition takes place in the same stadium every year in St. Hertogenbosch, Holland. The KNPV is one of the fasted growing dog...

A 7 week old litter of puppies have their first experience with the swimming pool. This is the beginning of conditioning the puppies to the pool and swimming.

This is the video of the 1996 Netherlands Police Dog Championships, otherwise known as the KNPV or PH1 Championships. The competition takes place in the same stadium every year in St. Hertogenbosch, Holland. The KNPV is one of the fasted growin...