Tandem Dog Sports

I put a ton of emphasis on those 3 reward parts in my training and I see that behaviors not only develop faster, but fixing behaviors can of

What do you do when your dog is making a mistake in the moment? Do you reward the error if you use a cookie? Do you need to make it easier?

Besides having the dog comfortable with working when rewards at a distance, we want to gradually focus on how much work the dog is asked to do before rewardi...

Training a Remote Reward Cue One of the questions I see a lot in dog training are people wondering when they can stop rewarding so much!  They know that to c...

I've been thinking about position changes lately as I continue to work on Zumi's stand at a distance for the new AKC cue discrimination exercise, and as I te...

In the last blog post we looked at one (huge) reason why a dog can look brilliant outside the ring but everything seems to go south once they walk through th...

Why do some dogs seem to fall apart when entering a competition? They look brilliant outside the ring and then once they step through those ring gates it's ...

It's been almost a decade since I first heard of the idea of using different marker words to tell the dog but the idea is finally starting to take the dog wo...

A pretty common issue I work on in my classes is getting confident duration on behaviors without needing to provide constant feedback. So many of us get supe...

It’s been 5 years since I first started a blog post on reverse luring and a bit longer than that since I started using the zen technique to get duration. Sin...