Lift Your Leg - the art of training a dog

Coping When Things Go Wrong - on social media we all hear about everyone’s successes. But what do they do when they fall down and keep screwing up? We’ve all been there - and here is a frank discussion on how to survive when you find yourself there.

Jill and I disagreed last week about the benefits of following, so this week, I won the argument. Sorry Jill, that was obnoxious of me. However, it did create a really strong discussion on the benefits of following to build your relationship. Enjoy. Please like and share as far and wide as is possible.

Thanks to Maryna Ozuna for her brilliant questions - we answer the important and difficult topic she gave us. I feel like this is a decent first attempt - of how do we pass the subtle knowledge that we know to the younger generation? On my FB page will be the video promised, and the photo of Pippa squashing the poodle, by poodle's request.

We discuss the last Building Bravery Seminar for my Shadow Program, and the secrets to success, and some of the difficulties teaching this group.

We got to interview Telah about our shadow program. This is Telah’s amazing facility that is for sale in Illinois. https://www.facebook.com/share/18VaNbDcEb/?mibextid=WC7FNe

If you want it bad enough, you will find a way. If you don't, you will make an excuse. This is my mantra for life, and we discuss our challenges in this podcast. We do get off topic and discuss an awful new learning about what some trainers are doing with Place. In this episode we discuss the fantastic Michaela Bouzkova, from Ontario Canada. https://www.instagram.com/expat_obedience/

Sadly, our recording was cut off at half an hour, and time in our week ran out and we never got a chance to fix it. Sorry folks

we come up with suggestions to make yourself funner, which will increase your dogs attention to you, and aide all of your training goals.

Great questions. Thank you everyone. I did change our resource guarding answer after the fact because resource guarding has the potential to be so dangerous.

Often people retrain their reactive dogs and do a super job, but when their dog next reacts, this knocks all their confidence away. This regression is harder to swallow once we've had the taste of success. This episode is to help you regain your confidence, and get your easy dog back.

We discuss Garbage bags, and ways to build your dogs resiliency.

We all want dogs to enjoy and enrich our lives, yet so many just suck all joy from them. This podcast will help understand the differences in our lifestyles, and how to create a dog you enjoy living with, that can also make you laugh. For Marcelle the Shell you must watch until the very end. https://youtu.be/VF9-sEbqDvU?si=fiKnMbjlDkG783zw

DOG TYPES; the differences in how to train them. Jill and I are finally on to something great, and I thank those who have given us honest, raw input to get us on task. This week we have an uncensored discussion trying to decide the difference of how we train a sensory dog compared to one lacking confidence. We do get there, with a really simple answer, but we are talking about something that has n...

We tackle a very difficult topic of highly sensitive, reacting inappropriately because of an overloaded nervous system, or fearful? Plus we discuss my highly sensitive dog, that cannot poop in public. Enjoy!

This one is about what we should be training, and if we can brag, is our best one to date. Understand how to train the building blocks to having a nice person that you can live with. Here are some visuals to help show certain pieces. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18YGE9eeFJ/?mibextid=iCjFHx

Having feel and timing comes at a cost, and a lot of talented trainers burn out long before they should. We discuss survival tips for to keep the good trainers going.

We discuss ideas on how to deal with fireworks, and minimize and prevent damage to your dogs.

I got an email from the BC SPCA suggesting that muzzles are really a leash, and all dogs should be wearing one as a preventative. Jill and I discuss this, deeply, over wine.

It's been a full moon kind of week, where very little went right. While I could have pretended on short instagram videos, I didn't, and you get a full podcast on my weekly disasters. Everyone fails, sometimes. If you haven't, you haven't put yourself out there enough, or worked with enough dogs.

Our most challenging topic to date, which needs to be revisited. Feel. This might be the most misunderstood and underappreciate skill in training dogs today. We work through trying to define this abstract concept.

Matty joins Monique and Jill to tackle a discussion on corrections. We discuss different types of corrections for different types of dogs, give examples from our daily lives, and e-collars. E-Collar Conditioning by Leanne Tucker Recall Collar Conditioning 101   Turn the collar on and have both contact points touching your arm.  Feel the various levels of stimulation. It is important to know for yo...

Jill Brown and Monique Anstee discuss if disobedience is always bad. Sometimes dogs have reasons, and are we introspective enough to know if their reasons are valid, or not? Here we go through examples of our dogs showing opinions, and discuss whether we allow it in all dogs, or only ones that have earned that right.

It's question time, and we tackle what you threw at us, some of which sparked some very good conversation. How do you train retrain an e-collar, correct your dog, deal with in -house guarding from guests or your in-house dogs etc. Thank you to all that were brave enough to ask us questions, and I hope these answers suffice!

This is true dog talk, where we discuss living with dogs and that 23 1/2 hours a day of training is more importanat than formal training sessions. Here is the video of Ivan Balabanov and Tina, that we discuss. There are many more videos of his process that should be watched.

The best way to diminish your dog's career is by stepping in the ring before they are ready. Here are things that we are looking for, to know our dogs are ready. One game I mentioned was the plate game. Get ten plates, number them one to ten, then scatter them in your training place. Can you heel from plate 1-10 and keep your dog's focus? If you can, you are probably ready for the ring.