Dog Training

Do you think I send dribble every day? Yesterday I gave the solution for jumping. If you want to stop jumping you need to say, “NO,” and apply a negative consequence. Once the dog has all four paws on the ground, you say, “YES,” and apply a positive consequence. The dog training world has gone a little bonkers and most of the “experts” will tell you that you should never use a negative consequence and come up with kooky explanations. Here is an email that came in from Lewis: “I am genuinely concerned with the dribble that you are now… Read the rest

Have you ever heard this quote from Bill Gates? “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” I am all about finding the easiest way of doing something. But it is also misleading. One question I get asked often is about running a business on the internet. How do you get customers, I am always asked. My reply is always the same. “It’s easy. I wake up every morning and write an email to my subscribers. It’s the easiest way I have found to consistently get… Read the rest

So my friend Lydia posted an article by Victoria Stilwell on my Facebook page. The article was titled, “Balanced Dog Training: There’s Nothing Balanced About It.” In case you’ve never heard of Balanced Dog Training, dog trainers have developed categories to label each other. You have: The “Positive Only” trainers, the trainers that I affectionately refer to as the PO’d crowd because this camp is M.A.D! You disagree with this “peaceful” group and lookout. This camp has physically threatened me. They freak out if you talk about doing any type of physical correction to a dog but have NO PROBLEM… Read the rest