Who is training who in this picture?

In the spirit of training, it goes on all the time,  in all kids of relationships.  Not just you and your dog. How any relationship developed is a result of certain processes that are repeated over time. If you boyfriend or girlfriend always makes a big deal about it when you dress up then you feel more encouraged to dress up. And likewise, if they don’t ever give you a compliment when you dress up, then you eventaully loose your zest for dressing up for them. And os might be the truth for you and your dog.  Read more

This little video (see link at end of article). came to me this morning just shortly after breathing a sigh of relief when my dog Gigi came running back to me from nearly a 1/4 mile away after having her “shit eating” party with the neighbor’s horse. Yum. But yuk. Despite her party she came a runnin’. But in that moment before I had my doubts and realized that I could be using a better method for “come”. What if she couldn’t hear me for the distance between us? Read more