Distractions do not HAVE to ruin your training experience with your dog! You can get through distractions! Really you can! The key to...

In the last post we were talking about how Halo leaps into the air with joy while being praised for completing an obedience course! Like...

Did everyone see last week's training video of Halo? Wasn't she just GORGEOUS? Fluent, happy, willing, accurate. So she's trained, right?...

In this week's training video, you see some practice for show ring preparation. Seven-month-old Halo is almost ready! You can see that...

One of the service dog teams is about to graduate! What an amazing time! Here's the inside scoop on K-9 Prodigy's owner-trainer service...

"I want to be a dog trainer!" I hear that so often! It sounds like a great career, right? Long happy days spent with nice dogs and their...

These long runs sure are a good way to get some alone-time and really think! Adding to my previous post about this from a few days ago,...

In this training video, I'm working on something called "Generalization." If we say that a dog has "generalized" something, we mean that...

This week I started training for my second marathon. I did my first marathon four years ago, so I'll really have to start from scratch...

Though there have always been working dogs (even the earliest domesticated dogs performed some functions, usually guarding camps or...

Did you like last week's "exercise of the week?" It was the Moving Down, an exercise from the sport of Rally Obedience. I hope you gave...

A couple of my favorite (well, really, you're ALL my favorite LOL!) clients and I were working with their dog in Laurelhurst park and...

I'll be on vacation next week and am SUPER EXCITED. I'm going on a little road trip with my mom to South Dakota. We'll see the Badlands,...

Doesn't the sport of K-9 Nosework look fun? I love it because it's a chance for the dog to be the expert at something, and maybe it's...

Remember this video from yesterday? We were talking about "cues" versus "commands" when working with dogs, and I was saying how for this...

A quick note -- the training string is hereby officially "full" -- I'll still go out and do an assessment for you, if you'd like, but...