How Much Dog Does a Dog Trainer Train? addresses the importance of training the dog's owner before training the dog.
Group Class or Private Lesson? Making the Best Choice for You and Your Dog discusses the pros and cons of the group class format, and why you and your dog might
achieve greater success with customized private training.
Moc's Liver Treats and Bait -- a healthful recipe for introductory tracking and puppy obedience shaping.
Building Focus Checklist provides a helpful checklist of focus-building habits and activities that will motivate your pup's desire to focus on you and on the obedience training, with the ultimate goal of improved performance overall.
Operant Conditioning introduction for positive dog training.
Crate Training introduces the benefits of puppy crate training and the recommended steps for accomplishing crate training a dog.
Ultimate Sit reviews the training fundamentals for shaping the reliable and intensely focused sit on command, an effective strategy for resolving unwanted misbehaviors.
Is Your Dog a Veterinary Exam Terrorist? addresses the importance of incremental behavioral modification to resolve resistance to physical exam by your dog veterinarian.
The Reactive Dog introduces the importance of step by step behavioral modification and training for both the owner and the dog to redirect and resolve the sometimes frightening and often embarrassing behavioral outbursts of the reactive dog.
Mitigating the Potential for Dog-to-Dog Aggression offers recommendations for evaluating, selecting, and stewarding the puppy and young dog to reduce the likelihood of aggressive behaviors toward other dogs.
The Myth of the Four Month Meltdown by Moc Klinkam dispels the notion of a behavioral crisis at some set date after acquiring a new dog.
Ain't Misbehavin': On the Use of Corrections introduces the concept of making an appropriate correction for willful misbehavior.
The Bitter Spray Lunacy by Moc Klinkam discusses the advice of some ill-informed trainers to spray a bitter irritant in the dog's face to correct misbehavior long after it occurs, a practice that is contrary to the most fundamental knowledge of how dogs learn.
The Secret to Off-lead Obedience reveals the strategies for creating reliable off-leash obedience.
Canine Good Citizen Test Training and Handling Tips
Joint Stewardship summarizes the dog health care practices in your daily routine with your dog that can help prevent joint and overall muscular-skeletal trauma and degeneration.
