Engagement is a very important part of dog training. Putting engagement on cue can benefit dog trainers/handlers when taking dogs into distracting environments. In this video, you will see Cindy and Maybe demonstrate how to implement engagement on...

It's one thing to train dogs and quite another to train people how to train dogs. In 2009, Michael Ellis started to collaborate with Leerburg to make videos for dog training. He is one of the best sport dog trainer and instructor in the world. Thi...

Michael Ellis lectures on "reward placement" during obedience training at one of Leerburgs Michael Ellis seminars. Reward placement is extremely important and this video will explain why.

This is the first in a short series of videos with Michael Ellis, talking at a puppy class in his school in California, about fear periods in dogs and how to counter condition dogs that become nervous over people, places and things in his environm...

Michael Ellis helps a student working in marker training. The student is making very common mistakes in the application of MARKERS. Michael helps her with her terminology and the timing of applying a MARK.

This lecture was filmed by Ed Frawley at Michael's school in California.

New trainers who want to train their dog motivationally need to learn how to change their dog's state of mind so that the dog wants to be with them and the dog must want what the handler has. This is called getting engagement in their dog. When a ...

This video deals with the game of restrained recalls. Training the recall is one of the most important exercises our dogs needs to learn. On one hand its an exercise that can save a dogs life and on the other hand it’s an exercise that can m...

In this video, Michael Ellis explains what Acquisition Based Behaviors means. This video is taken directly out of our training DVD/online course, The Power of Training Dogs with Food with Michael Ellis. The Power of Training Dogs with Food is ...

On Sept 18, 2018, Ed Frawley released a new Basic Dog Obedience DVD, Streaming Video On Demand, and Leerburg Online Course. This was not just an updated version of the original video produced back in 1982 or the many updates since. This DVD and co...

This is the second in a series of short lectures taken from Michael Ellis' puppy class at his school in California. This lecture deals with how to counter condition sharp, shy puppies. This lecture will be continued in future newsletters.

Michael helps a seminar participant by explaining how to get her dog engaged without using an external physical stimulus first (in this case a remote collar).