Leerburg Dog Training Podcast

In this video, Ed Frawley shares a question from the Ask Cindy database. Today's question is about 9-month-old German Shepherd that likes to jump on and bark at their owner. Ed gives some advice on how to stop and prevent the behavior from becoming a habit.| Links mentioned: Basic Dog Obedience https://leerburg.com/302.htm | Intermediate Dog Obedience: https://leerburg.com/302b.php | Establishing...

In this episode, Ed Frawley shares a question from the Ask Cindy database. Today's question is about transitioning a dog from clicker training to verbal markers.| Links mentioned: The Power of Training Dogs with Markers - Version 2024: https://university.leerburg.com/Catalog/viewCourse/cid/96

In this episode, Ed Frawley shares a question from the Ask Cindy database. Today's question involves an owner who uses a long line for their dog. The owner experienced an incident at the dog beach that has made them reconsider using the long line.| Links mentioned: Long Lines https://leerburg.com/view-category.php?categoryid=406 

In this episode, Worried about why your prong collar keeps coming off even though it feels secured. Well worry no more. Ed Frawley shows you how you should secure your Leerburg prong collar to make sure that it doesn't come off and cause some sort of incident that you can prevent from happening to your dog.| Links mentioned: Leerburg's Stainless Steel Prong Collar https://leerburg.com/leerburg-pro...

In this episode, Ed Frawley shares a question from the Ask Cindy database. Today's question is about an owner who has a 9-week-old puppy when she is put in the ex-pen. The puppy cries and climbs out of the ex-pen using the side of the ex-pen to get out. The owner doesn't know what to do and needs help! | Links mentioned: Your Puppy 8 Weeks to 12 Months https://university.leerburg.com/Catalog/viewC...

In this episode, Ed Frawley shares a question from the Ask Cindy database. Today's question is about a 5-month-old puppy who loves strangers. The owner wants the puppy to be a deterrent dog in the future. They want to know the steps to making this happen. | Links mentioned: Your Puppy 8 Weeks to 12 Months https://university.leerburg.com/Catalog/viewCourse/cid/91 | Puppy Socialization https://unive...

In this episode, Ed Frawley shares a question from the Ask Cindy database. Today's question is about a one-year-old dog that has a slow recall. The owner wants the dog to recall faster and doesn't know what to do to increase her speed.| Links mentioned: Training Your Dog to COME When Called - EVERY TIME https://university.leerburg.com/Catalog/viewCourse/cid/197

In this episode, Ed Frawley shares a question from the Ask Cindy database. Today's question is about Dutch Shepherd who is developing a destructive chewing habit as he likes to chew and destroy certain toys. Ed addressed chewing issues with some suggestions on how to prevent and manage the behavior. | Links mentioned: Goughnuts: https://leerburg.com/goughnutstoys.htm | Interactive and Chew Toys: h...

In this episode, Ed Frawley shares a clip from a Michael Ellis Protection Sport Dog Seminar. Michael discusses the job and role of a decoy in protection bitework. | Links mentioned: Michael Ellis Protection Sport Dog Seminar: https://leerburg.com/flix/player.php/2437/Michael_Ellis_Protection_Sport_Dog_Seminar_(2009) | Michael Ellis Mondio Ring Seminar: https://leerburg.com/flix/player.php/2446/Mic...

In this episode, Ed Frawley shares a question from the Ask Cindy database. Today's question is about an owner who drops their dog off at daycare. The dog exhibits separation anxiety, showing distress and attempting to nip at the staff when they put him in the runs at the start of the day. The owners are wondering if they should discontinue taking him to daycare.| Links mentioned: 2023 Three Day Se...

In this video, Ed Frawley shares a question from the Ask Cindy database. Today's question is about an owner who went on vacation and had another family member take care of the owner's dog. The owner's family member misused the remote collar on the owner's dog and now it seems the owner might have to start over on training for remote collars.| Links mentioned: Small Dog 20ft x 5/8in Nylon Drag Line...

In this episode, taking care of your scent kits is crucial when it comes to scent training. In this video, Ed Frawley talks about the steps to take care of your scents and what things you can do to make them last longer. | Links mentioned: All Leerburg Scent Kits https://leerburg.com/view-category.php?categoryid=487 

In this video, Ed Frawley shares a question from the Ask Cindy database. Today's question is about a 9-month-old Goldendoodle that gets overstimulated and redirects onto the female handlers in this family. This family wrote to Cindy looking for advice after suggestions from their trainer weren't helping change the dog's behavior.| Links mentioned: Dealing with Dominant and Aggressive Dogs: https:/...

In this episode, Ed Frawley shares a question from the Ask Cindy database. Today's question is about a 14-week-old German Shepherd puppy that ignores the recall command when they are off-leash, outside, in a distracting environment.| Links mentioned: Training Your Dog to Come When Called: https://university.leerburg.com/Catalog/viewCourse/cid/197 | 1/8" Drag Line: https://leerburg.com/drag-line-st...

This clip came from Michael Ellis Protection Dog Seminar. This newly released course has been put together from archived footage filmed during a 2009 Leerburg Michael Ellis seminar held in Menomonie, Wisconsin. This course contains 14 hours of lecture and dog work, the vast majority of which has never been seen before. There are discussions of a variety of protection sports, their differences and...

In this video, Ed Frawley discusses what a reflexive recall is and gives some exercises and tips on how to achieve a reflexive recall with your dog.| Links mentioned: Training Your Dog to Come When Called - EVERY TIME - With Ed Frawley and Cindy Rhodes (2024) - Streaming Video: https://leerburg.com/flix/player.php/2416/Training_Your_Dog_to_Come_When_Called_(2024)_by_Ed_Frawley | Online Course: htt...

In this episode, Ed Frawley discusses training dogs using food rewards in recall training as it is often criticized by some who question its effectiveness, especially in situations where food isn't available. However, these criticisms usually stem from a lack of understanding or experience in using food as a training tool.| Links mentioned: Training Your Dog to Come When Called (2024) - Online Cou...

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In this video, Ed Frawley sits down with Travis Olson from Keeper Collars® to discuss the quality product that is Keeper Collars. They dive into the mission of Keeper Collars, how to measure your dog for a Keeper Collar, and which keeper collar is best for you based on the various options available. The Keeper Collars® Hidden Prong Collar is not simply a cover for a prong collar. The prong is buil...

When we move our dog to a variable reward schedule and we do it at the right time, it should produce more drive in our dog to perform. If we have introduced the dog to the 'NOPE' marker enough times (hundreds of times - see our online course on Marker Training) the dog will think 'Hey I deserve a reward but I didn't get one, I must have done something wrong so I'll try harder next time'. Then the...

It may seem counterintuitive to say that we don't want to use our dog's highest-value food reward all the time. With some dogs, there may be times in teaching a behavior where that's exactly what we need to do. The same thing may happen with dogs that are transitioned to toy rewards. Let's say we have an extremely high food drive dog that gets so amped up when it knows you have steak that it's bra...

There is something every new trainer needs to know. If your dog won't take food, if it's not interested in your high-value food reward, it's either: 1 - full and not hungry 2 - it's distracted 3 - it's stressed If my dog is paying attention to the screaming kids next door the dog will often find the kids more interesting than the food reward we have. If my dog is stressed, because of the environme...

Teaching our dog a reliable recall is the most important behavior we can teach our dog. The recall is a behavior that can save our dog's life. This course has 93 videos and is over 6 hours long. If you have a recall problem and want to take the time to learn how to train a reliable recall this course will teach you how to do it.| Links mentioned: Training Your Dog to COME When Called https://unive...

It may seem counterintuitive to say that we don't want to use our dogs highest value food reward, but with some dogs there may be times in teaching a behavior where that's exactly what we need to do. The same thing may happen with dogs that are transitioned to toy rewards. Let's say we have an extremely high high food drive dog that gets so amped up when it knows you have steak that it's brain sto...

When we ask our dog for a hand-touch we expect the dog to touch their nose to the palm of our hand. The hand-touch becomes a fun game that our dogs love to play at home and on walks. In fact, with many dogs, the hand-touch itself becomes a reward. Once our dog becomes fluent with the hand-touch we can use it to redirect the dog away from unwanted distractions like other dogs, people, or things tha...