Cooperative Care and the Pet Tutor By Deborah Jones, Ph.D. One of my hobbies is working on cooperative care with my dogs. What is cooperative care? It is any sort of physical handling that is necessary in order to maintain…
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Cooperative Care and the Pet Tutor
Tagged with: clicker training, dog love, dog trainers, Dog training, dogs, nail trimming, Pet Tutor, reward based training, Smart Animal, Smart Animal Training Systems, smart training feeder, trimming nails
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog training, Fear, Misc, Positive Animal Training, Technology, Training tools
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog training, Fear, Misc, Positive Animal Training, Technology, Training tools
Goals for Successful Dog Training
Set Your Goals for Successful Dog Training Does your dog have some behaviors that you’d like to improve on? Would you like to increase your own skills as a trainer to help your dog’s long term behavior? With both New…
Tagged with: Animal training, Behavior, clicker training, Dog, dog behavior, Dog training, human dog bond, Pet Tutor, reward based training, Smart Animal Training Systems
Posted in Misc
Posted in Misc
From Auspicious Beginnings to a Hard-won Solution – Malena DeMartini
From Auspicious Beginnings to a Hard-won Solution – Malena DeMartini My second client ever (circa 2001) was a separation anxiety case. The dog’s name was Guinness, like the beer, and his guardians had found him sickly and tattered, scavenging for…
There are 3 Es in modern dog training: Efficacy, Efficiency and Ethics
As trainers, we talk to dog guardians all the time. They come to us with questions and concerns about their dog and our job is to help them work out the best approach to their canine’s needs. Many have been…
Service dogs: The fabulous, the faulty and the fake
One in 5 people suffer from a disability according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Many can’t hear or see well enough to safely function on their own, can’t pick up an object, make a call in case of emergency, open…
Tagged with: Animal training, Dog, Dog training, Jennifer Cattet, Pet Tutor, reward based training, service dog, Smart Animal, Smart Animal Training Systems
Posted in Dog training, Dog/human relationship, Misc, service dogs
Posted in Dog training, Dog/human relationship, Misc, service dogs
Dog Training: Praise or Treats?
While we understand that good behavior should be rewarded if we want the dog to repeat it, there are different opinions about how and how much we should reward our pooches. We might consider that a “good boy!” is a…
The top 10 blogs you’ve liked in 2014
Another year has just gone by! I don’t know about you, but it feels like no matter how much I get accomplished, that to-do list just keeps on going. But before we take on a new year, let’s take a…
Tagged with: Animal training, Behavior, Dog, dog aggression, dog behavior, dog cognition, Dog training, dog walk, dog walking, dogs, human dog bond, Jennifer Cattet, Pet Tutor, reward based training, Smart Animal Training Systems, Technology
Posted in Misc, science, Technology, Training tools
Posted in Misc, science, Technology, Training tools
The rise of Petnologies
The 21st century has certainly marked a turn in the development and use of technology. Most of us carry in our pockets a miniaturized computer allowing us everything from calling others, to checking our email, our stocks and the weather…
Tagged with: Animal training, Dog training, Jennifer Cattet, Pet Tutor, reward based training, Smart Animal Training Systems, Technology
Posted in Misc, Positive Animal Training, science, Technology, Training tools
Posted in Misc, Positive Animal Training, science, Technology, Training tools
The Insider’s Secrets to Teaching Words to Dogs
For as long as humans have lived with animals, we’ve fantasized about being able to hold conversations with them. Throughout much of the traditional literature we can find people and animals talking together, from Eve and the serpent in the…
Acts of punishment are stronger than rewards
We sometimes assume that choosing punishment or rewards in training is merely a matter of personal preferences. We use the tools that we deem the most effective, and that we have grown proficient with. If we can teach a dog…