jane’s canine counsel

Taking 3 minutes a day to train, will improve your dog walking on leash. That's a fact and I can prove it! Walking on leash; train your dog walking up and down the hallway first, don't take the big leap to the park or the neighborhood if your dog is pulling even before you leave the house! Reinforce the behavior you want. To reinforce a behavior- so you don't have to continually correct it, find the point where [...]

There has to be more ways to train an animal then there are recipes for pasta. Some methods are extremely precise and thoroughly scientific. Others base their method on ideas of pack ‘leadership' based on pseudoscience or popular TV programmes. I have tried many in an attempt to know the best way. Yet at the end of the day if we do not have, at least, a basic understanding of goodwill and kindness then it does not matter how [...]