The Dog's Way Podcast: Dog Training for Real Life

Sean interviews Cara Putnam of Crossroads Dog Training about her new free e-book "Before You Bring a Puppy Home".  Her book walks you through the decision phase, preparation phase and your puppy's first introduction to their new home.  The downloadable e-book is a great resource to guide you through your preparation.

In this episode, Sean interviews Ryan Brown about his thriving new dog training business in Ontario, Canada. Ryan shares his insights over the last two years of intense training with hundreds of clients.  Ryan has tips for newer dog trainers and people thinking of dog training as a career, as well as some ideas to make owner's training easier and more effective with their dogs.

In episode 68, Sean interviews Dog Trainer, Cara Putnam about her training philosophy, her focus on dogs' instincts and needs, as well as some specific ideas about how dogs' marking behavior can affect the pack and play environment. In this session: In this episode What's the difference [...] The post Session 68: Cara Putnam from Cross Roads Dog Training – Dogs' instincts and training appeared fir...

In episode 67, Sean answers some questions from a couple of listeners about interpreting dogs' body language in behavioral modification, and what he thinks of a specific form of training called BAT training for dogs.  Sean gives a more detailed list of the dog body language signals that he usually looks for, and why [...] The post SESSION 67: Friendly Dog Body Language and BAT Training appeared fi...

In episode 66, Sean interviews author Eric Letendre author of The Deadly Dog Training Myth.  Sean and Eric talk about dog training philosophy, dog training politics, and some of the reasons you may be a little frustrated in trying to solve your dog's behavior issues.  Eric has been training dogs since the 1980's and [...] The post The Deadly Dog Training Myth: interview with author Eric Letendre a...

In episode 65, Sean answers an update questions about temporary and permanent boundaries as well as brings you an interview with Dave Van Kirk from DogWatch Hidden fence systems about their new Smart Fence Containment System. In this session: What's the difference between a temporary and permanent boundary? Is [...] The post Session 65: Boundaries and The DogWatch Smart Fence Dog Containment Syste...

In episode 64, Sean outlines and describes the top three mistakes he sees small breed dog owners making.  Sean gives you a remedy for each mistake and a bit of a game plan and homework for you and your small breed dog, if you feel like you're making these mistakes. Also, Sean reminds us that [...] The post SESSION 64: Small Breed Dog? Avoid These Three Mistakes! appeared first on The Dog's Way .

In episode 63, Sean answers a listener's questions about using a "heeling stick" that she saw a trainer on YouTube using (Peter Caine).  Sean describes how a heeling stick is used and describes how it's not quite the aversive that some people think it is.  Sean also (partially) answers the listener's question about Peter Caine's [...] The post Session 63: What's a Heeling Stick and Who is Peter Ca...

In episode 62, Sean goes over some misunderstandings and mistakes in using various commands in your obedience training.  He gives you an understanding of what elements of verbal commands mean something to your dog and what elements are mainly for humans. Additionally, Sean gives you some tips on how you can "geek out" and take [...] The post SESSION 62: Am I Saying the Right Command? appeared firs...

In episode 61, Sean interviews Bennie Copeland and Devin Best, the guys from Discover Your Dog Podcast.  Bennie Copeland has been training people and dogs in Nashville for quite a while and Devin Best is the co-host of Discover Your Dog Podcast and the Co-founder of Family Dog Fusion.  Sean, Bennie and Devin talk podcasting, [...] The post SESSION 61: Discover Your Dog Podcast Interview appeared f...

In episode 60, Sean responds to a question from some listeners about how prevent over excitement when your dog approaches and meets other dogs on a walk.  Sean gives you a two-step game plan in this week's homework to teach your dog to have perpetual awareness of you and settle in their nervous system when [...] The post SESSION 60: Meeting Other Dogs More Calmly appeared first on The Dog's Way .

In episode 59, Sean answers a listener's email about the serious aggression issue they have with their dog.  Sean talks about two myths in dog behavior that often results in poor advice to owners of dog's dealing with aggression issues.  Sean describes his opinion on euthanizing dogs and the very first discussion he might have [...] The post SESSION 59: Is a Dog's Aggression your Fault? appeared f...

In episode 58, Sean responds to a question from some listeners about how to teach your excited puppy the rules of playing fetch.  These exercises are designed to structure a puppy's fetch game.  A quick note that this isn't designed to teach fetching to a dog that has absolutely no inclination to fetch.  Also, you [...] The post SESSION 58: Fetch! – Teaching your puppy the rules appeared first on...

In episode 57, Sean answers a listeners question about how to get her puppy to stop playing roughly with her baby.  Sean gives you a game-plan for training your puppy to get along with baby better and he gives you 3 areas to focus your training on that will make puppy-baby interactions more agreeable. [...] The post Session 57: Train your Puppy to get along with Baby better appeared first on The D...

In episode 56, Sean responds to a question from some listeners about how he approaches aggression cases.  They had a bad experience with a trainer in their local area and want to know from Sean what sorts of things they should look for in a trainer that can help them solve some aggression issues with [...] The post SESSION 56: Aggression Cases: Sean's approach appeared first on The Dog's Way .

In episode 55, Sean interviews Ron Pace about his Diabetic Alert Service Dog Training.  Ron explains how he finds the right dogs to do this sort of work, as well as outlining his training process.  Ron has some great stories about how dramatic the benefits could be for diabetics when they have a diabetic alert [...] The post SESSION 55: Diabetic Alert Service Dog Training with Ron Pace appeared fi...

In episode 54, Sean interviews David Van Kirk of Dogwatch Hidden Fence Systems to answer some of the questions that have come in over the last few months about these types of systems.  Sean and David discuss the outdoor and indoor systems that this technology provides to create permanent boundaries for your dogs in and [...] The post SESSION 54: Hidden Fence Systems – Interview with David Van Kirk...

In episode 53, Sean answers a question from a professional dog trainer.  She asks Sean about the differences in results that she gets when training a dog personally as opposed to the results that her clients get when training their dogs themselves.  Sean outlines the top three mistakes dog owners make in training their dogs [...] The post SESSION 53: AVOID THESE 3 DOG TRAINING MISTAKES appeared fi...

In episode 52, Sean answers a question from a listener who is thinking of adding a second dog to their family.  Sean covers three areas: 1) how to decide whether it's a good idea to add a second dog 2) some items to think about in finding a good match with your current dog 3) [...] The post SESSION 52: Adding a Second Dog? – Tips and a game plan appeared first on The Dog's Way .

In episode 51, I interview Megan Esherick, Program Director for Canine Partners for Life.  CPL is a service dog organization in Pennsylvania.  They provide highly competent service dogs to recipients to assist with physical limitations, mobility issues, various medical alert services as well as many other issues.  Megan and I discuss their breeding program, their puppy [...] The post SESSION 51: S...

In episode 50, I give you the starting steps of training a deaf dog.  Also, I answer some questions in the update section from the U.K., Australia and Canada.  In answer to one of the listener's questions I also give you a quick overview of what the online dog training video course covers. [...] The post SESSION 50: Deaf Dog Training 101 appeared first on The Dog's Way .

In episode 49, I interview Heather Jo Cutting, K9 handler and operations leader from King County Search Dogs.  We talk about what breeds of dogs they look for, they're training program and their mission parameters. In this session: What does it take to be a search and rescue K9? [...] The post SESSION 49: King County Search Dogs Interview appeared first on The Dog's Way .

Cesar Millan seems to be having a rough few weeks in the public relations department.  A woman was severely bitten by an aggressive dog that was once at his training facility, he aired a TV show in which a pig got attacked by a dog he was training, and thousands of people sign a petition to [...] The post SESSION 48: Cesar Millan, aggression and the pig – Sean's commentary appeared first on The Do...

In episode 47, '55pxagb4' I interviewed Dr. Jake Tedaldi DVM.  In our discussion, we cover the basics of puppy vaccinations as well as some of the controversy around how safe vaccines are or aren't for your puppy.  Dr. Jake gives us his usual balanced, logical approach to thinking through some of the decisions about vaccinating [...] The post SESSION 47: Puppy Vaccines 101 with Dr. Jake Tedaldi ap...

In episode 46, I respond to some of the disagreement emails and some genuine hate mail that was prompted by podcast 45.  I'm letting you behind the scenes in this podcast a little bit to illustrate a couple things that may help you guys.  Firstly, I wanted you guys to hear about this debate because, [...] The post SESSION 46: Responding to Disagreements and some Hate Mail appeared first on The Dog...