I teach my pups to automatically "check-in" whenever we are on puppy walks with pup romping out in front. I live in the wilds of Alaska, so puppy...
If the water is too cold for me to walk in tennis shoes, it is too cold for pup. I usually wait until the day is hot and water is warmest in late...
Where are you located? We also see -40 C in interior Alaska. At that temp my labs feet get cold pretty quickly...they are in speed-pee mode and...
I like to teach heeling and backwards heeling during feeding times. I think if they understand backwards heeling and silent auto-stop, they are...
I like to thoroughly teach heeling off-leash inside the house so they really understand heeling before they go on-leash walking. I teach my...
I use "feeding time" as the best time for training my labs. They are highly motivated and feeding twice a day, that's 60 short training sessions...
We got a kitten with a 1-year old lab, a 5-year old lab, and an older rescue dog already in the house. The labs got along well with the kitten...
I think tongue flicking may indicate three conditions: 1) Stress: NO! as pup is caught counter surfing, dog does not make eye contact, tucked...
My labs "tongue flick" when they are happy and confident. For example, here is a lab that tongue flicks 1 tongue flick at 1sec, 2 tongue flick at...
We got our kitten after there were 3 dogs in the house..she get along wonderfully with our dogs. She licks my 2 black labs whenever I pet one of...
I like what they call in the USA "stand alone marks" as I can get to the dummy before pup if he breaks, which I have not had happen because he...
To teach pup to follow my lead leg, I use a tennis ball first to teach pup a silent auto-sit when I stop as we are heeling. At first we heel and I...
I teach heeling backwards at feeding time...pup is conditioned to silently auto-sit when heeling/stopping, then I step backwards a little bit, pup...
And here is an example of luring to heel:[MEDIA]
I run hunt-tests so I want my lab focused out in the field while heeling and not looking up at my eyes like most conventional obedience training....
Here is my 1-minute feeding routine for my pup...its a good test to see how well the pup understand the concepts of heeling, silent auto-sit when...
I teach my labs 2-sided heeling, backwards heeling, and auto-stop whenever I stop as puppies during each feeding session. That is 1-minute of...
I like to condition recall with food as a good habit with puppies: [MEDIA] I exted this and also teach them a silent recall whenever I stop:...