I have had labradors for a long time and I have never corrected my puppies. They have grown up to be calm well behaved and well trained, obedient...
My older dog is a very enthusiastic swimmer and retrieves well from water. My younger dog had a frightening experience as a puppy falling into a...
You are definitely right to leave and change trainer. Anyone who makes you feel unhappy and demoralised is not teaching well. I do think that...
I don’t think that there is one way that always works when teaching a sit delivery as it depends on what your dog finds difficult. But I will say,...
https://imgur.com/a/v6pQWra Hopefully this link works so that you can see the difference in my dog :):):)
I’m sorry that you’re struggling with IBD. My dog was diagnosed earlier this year at nearly 4 after I went to the vets in desperation. There...
I’m so sorry that you are having such medical problems with your dogs. I’ve never had much need for the vet despite one of my previous dogs...
Autumn last year I was at a gundog training day and things were not going well. I was so surprised when a very experienced handler standing near...
When you say that she is more interested in sniffing in the classes, is it more a tracking sniffing or just general displacement sniffing? If it’s...
One of my dogs was being attacked and not the other. They are both black and entire so I was not sure exactly what the problem was. But I do...
I went to children’s play grounds and gave my dogs treats for looking at children from quite a distance. I used a clicker and every time he looked...
I really would also look very carefully at the situation that the dogs are raised in. I have always had my dogs from people who bred for...
My dog who is now the easiest and calmest lab with super heel work spent a lot of the training lessons in the far corner of the field watching the...
Well that’s great that you don’t have any young children at home as that’s one thing less to worry about! While you are waiting for someone to...
I’m sorry that no one has replied to you. I would get a behaviourist or a well qualified positive trainer in to assess you pup as I think that you...
I was struggling with an underweight raw fed dog. I had got used to him but it was a Vet nurse who first made a comment to me and when I weighed...
A well regarded positive gun dog trainer wrote this the other day and I liked it so much that I saved the quote. “Hunting for some dogs is more...
Sorry Julie is seem to have lost my reply to you. I totally agree with what you are saying. Positive reinforcement works well when you are...
The problem is that there is nothing to stop anyone setting up as a dog trainer. If you told this trainer that she should learn the ‘most modern...