Obedience Q&As

Hello, I am contacting you asking for your opinions on this situation. If you could I would appreciate it. Baseball has been on around here where I work with my dog at. So I decided to pick another area. Went to it with a friend of mine, got out, let my dog off leash to smell, pee... Cause he is nosey. After a couple of minutes, put him on leash and started the heel... I noticed he wasn't giving it his all. Came to a stop, he didn't sit by my side, so I told him to (he knows this). Afte...

I am the owner of a 1 year old rottweiler (male). I've had him since he was 12 weeks old. I found your web site about (8) months ago when I was searching internet trying to find more information on dog training. I have to complement you on the information you are providing to pet owners. I have purchased (2) of your DVD?s (your puppy 8 weeks to 8 months and basic dog obedience) which has changed my perception on how a dog should be handled and trained. My question is in regards to my rottw...

Hi Cindy, My puppy Cecelia knows all her basic commands except Stand. The way Michael teaches it is by having the dog sit, & then pushing the food hand towards the dog's face until they kick out their rear legs & stand. This has not worked on Cecelia - all she does is scoot backwards, still in a sitting position. I can get her to stand by having her sit & then moving the food an inch forward in front of her - is that wrong? Do you have any suggestions on this? Thanks, ~Tori

Hello, I have recently purchased both the Power of Food and Power of tug videos and will be getting my Malinois puppy this Friday. I have gone through the videos and taken notes, but have a quick question for you please. I just want to be sure that having the puppy follow a food lure into the sit, down, stand and heel will not kill drive. I understand that the luring needs to be done without command and without correction. Thank you for your time. My son was in Iraq twice over the last fe...

Hello Cindy, I have been watching (and enjoying) several of the Michael Ellis training videos. Sometimes he uses FREE as a release word and other times YES. Can you please tell me what the difference is and why he uses both words? Thank you. Mary Ann

Hi. I have two female dogs who have lived in harmony for three years that now want to kill each other. One dog is a shepherd/huskey (possibly part timber wolf. I was told this when I got her, but did not believe the owner until I saw a timber wolf that looked exactly like my dog); the other is a beagle mix with I don't know what (could be pit bull, boxer...?). Both have been very gentle, but the sheherd/huskey has always been territorial. She won't let anyone near her food or she w...

Cindy, First I must say job well done for the all DVD produced. I have purchased many DVDs from Leerburg. I have a very foundation question if I bring my dog out, although I tried to avoid meeting other stranger dogs but somehow somewhere we tend to meet. If the other dog is approach to my dog about 10, 15 meter before I have time to turn away and this stranger dog is showing aggression and barking at us, then I dog reacts and barks back. Should I stop my dog from barking a...

Hi Ed, We are having a serious problem with our lab mix. First we were told when we bought her as a puppy she was not mixed with pitt, but even the vet now believes she is. She's always been hard to train, strong prey drive, hard to break with puppy biting etc...but that was all in the past. However now that she's about a year and a half old things have gotten bad. When ever we put Misty into her crate or touch her collar she bites us. Not enough to break skin, but enough to scare ...

Hi Ed, Couple of Questions: Does the ?Buy Now Button? cause the buyer to redirect to Leerburg? If so, how would the buyer return to our website for items in our shopping cart that are NOT Leerburg products? With the ?Buy Now Button? would it not be better to have a ?separate? page for ONLY Leerburg affiliate products? That way Plus Size Pups could notify the buyer that they will be redirected to Leerburg therefore their shopping cart items (non-Leerburg products) wi...

Ryan, Do you know of anyone using Big Commerce (e-commerce platform)? I am having trouble setting up the Leerburg affiliate program on my website. I went to their help desk with this issue and got the following response: "Our software doesn't support a method where you can add third party products on your site that are provided by affiliates or provided by your affiliate record since you usually need to track commission." "The affiliate field in the control pa...

If a customer comes from my site to the Leerburg site and then comes back to the Leerburg site, after a week or a month or... what is the time period in which I will still receive the affiliate commission?

If a customer comes from my page and buys a product but also buys some other products directly from Leerburg that are NOT on my page do I get commission?

I am the webmaster for the site submitted, not the owner, so my quesiton is does it matter if I do the working on / operating of the site but have the owner send in her W9? In the meantime, I will login and download the help pdf, see what I can see.

I'm having a difficult time with the code listed for each item. For the 6 feet black leather leash on my "buy" button what is the hyperlink address I am suppose to type in? I have been using variations of http://leerburg.com/cart/affiliate.php.

What link do I copy and paste on my website?

Do you offer downloads (videos/audio) that I could sell directly on my site? I thought this could be an excellent addition to our site and you could sell the downloads to me at a wholesale price?

I have another website and I?m already registered. Do I need to register again to use the affiliate program on my other site?

I started to do a Squidoo lens (web site) on my dogs, and then in the middle of it decided to see if you had an affiliate program. I am hoping Squidoo is an appropriate platform on which to promote Leerburg products.

Ed, I have a 10 week old American Pitbull Terrier (APBT). He is very aggressive toward strangers already. What I mean by this is that whenever someone walks by he will charge at them and start barking. If that person was to advance toward him he would start to back up, though. I like the initial aggression, but why does he back up and what type of temperament is he showing? Would he make a good dog for protection training?

I was just looking at your site and some of your beautiful pictures of german shepherds. I have a female German Shepherd who will be 2 years old in March of this year. I also have a Sheltland Sheepdog who is 2 and half years old. My husband and I are thinking about getting another Shepherd. But we are concerned about bringing in another dog with our dogs being so territorial. Both of my dogs that I have now are trained in obedience and my Shepherd (Alexis) will be starting personal protection...