The majority of dog owners only use their leash when taking their dog for a walk. A large number of those people are being pulled down the street each and every time they attempt to walk their dog. No one enjoys this experience, which is why we ha...

In this short video, Jeff Frawley demonstrates how we introduce duration combined with distance on the Kuranda bed to begin training our stays. This video is taken from a new course Leerbug is working on titled, An Introduction to Dog Training. Th...

Michael Ellis’ philosophy on dog training is something that all dog trainers, and owners for that matter, should listen to. This video was filmed at a seminar held by Leerburg a few years ago. We like to periodically feature it in our newslette...

Michael Ellis discusses how to hold and deliver food in training. This method is used in order to allow your dog to push into the food and develop motivation without risking accidental bites of your fingers. The information in this short video is ...

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Ed Frawley answers a question from Kate, a Leerburg customer, on how to improve the speed of her obedience. Ed explains how to use motivation and the necessity of knowing your dog and their genetic abilities.

The beauty of the word "yes" in marker training is that you do not have to be ready to go with a high value food reward all the time. By incorporating some simple food chasing drills, you have the ability to mark a specific behavior at an exact po...

Michael Ellis discuses some of the pit falls of "learned helplessness." In this short video, Michael will explain how some things can be fixed and how to do that by increasing the level of motivation. While other things can be improved, however, s...

While I was sitting here editing the new DVD I am producing with Michael Ellis on puppy bite work, I thought it would be a neat idea to show training sessions with one dog (and I chose Cindy's dog Rush) from the time it was a 10 week old, to when...

This video contains a training segment taken from our new Basic Dog Obedience DVD/Online Course titled “HOW TO FADE FOOD REWARDS in our reward based training system.” Future newsletters will contain additional training segments out of this On...

Ed Frawley discusses how to start from the beginning of Michael Ellis' training system with a dog that has had other training in the past.

This video came directly out of our new Basic Dog Obedience training video. Those are my (Ed's) bloody fingers in this video. That was a result of mistakes I made with one of my own dogs that had a very strong food drive. My dog was not aggressive...