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Training Session Feel

One of the biggest lessons that I’ve learned through my career of training dogs is to do away with goals within a single session.  I have found greater success and have built better relationships with my dogs by focusing on the overall feel of each session, rather than what was actually accomplished.  We’ll meet ourContinue reading “Training Session Feel”

Posted byzooomdogJanuary 7, 2016Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Training Session Feel

Goals for 2016

Part of the reason I enjoyed keeping a blog in the past was the ability to share my goals, mostly because I’d flake on them if I didn’t have a written record of what I promised. So today, on the last day of 2015, I’m going to write out my goals for each of myContinue reading “Goals for 2016”

Posted byzooomdogDecember 31, 2015Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Goals for 2016

Puppy Training Plan

I’ve been asked recently for my puppy training plan, the behaviors that I think are the most important for puppies to learn.  I train behaviors in a certain order, mostly grouped by the conceptual training categories.  Each behavior builds off the concepts learned by a previous behavior. This is by no means a concrete plan.Continue reading “Puppy Training Plan”

Posted byzooomdogDecember 28, 2015Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Puppy Training Plan

Conceptual Training

Over time I have noticed that certain behaviors are easier to teach to a dog that had previously learned related behaviors.  I also noticed that dogs who had previously learned behaviors that were similar to a new behavior that I was teaching ended up with a crisper, cleaner version that required far less polishing andContinue reading “Conceptual Training”

Posted byzooomdogDecember 14, 2015December 14, 2015Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Conceptual Training

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