Tandem Dog Sports

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 world by storm thanks to several amazing trainers! Shade Whitesel has personally been chipping away at the FDSA student base a little at a time! In my last 2 sessions at FDSA I've found that more and more students are coming into class with having several marker training cues! What are Marker Cues? The marker most of us

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 super excited to shape new behaviors! We're silent as we watch the dog brilliantly figure out what we want and then we use the clicker and the cookie to tell the dog when they were right. And it works! You get that cool hind leg lift, a beautiful chin rest, and pretty pivots! Then at some point we need to take many of thes

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. Since that time I am thrilled to see so many trainers learn about it and embrace the method! And yesterday I discovered that the method I called reverse luring really wasn’t what the original inventor of reverse luring uses as reverse luring.  Ooops!  I’m embarrassed! And it’s a great example of how people can see a quick vi