Dealing with Disappointment – Adele Yunck

This email from Adele sure struck home for me. I know a lot of you will appreciate her article about NQs. Read on…. I tell you all of that to say I have been in the ring a lot this year, and it has not all been good. I’ve had my ups and downs, as [...]

A Call for Balance in Dog Training, by Margie English, NY

The following article is shared with permission. It may be forwarded, as long as Margie English’s name is attached. When I first read this, I liked the message so much that I wanted to share it with as many people as I could, because I think Margie makes many excellent points. I hope you enjoy [...]

Training with Limited Space or Time

From Adele Yunck With the onset of cold and wintery weather here in the north, many people have limited training time because of darkness and bad weather. While I have the luxury of space because I have a training building in my back yard, I don’t always have the luxury of a lot of time [...]

The Art of Praise

In last month’s wonderful, new, glossy-paper issue of Front & Finish magazine, there were several articles discussing how to avoid the trap that using food to train your dog can create. It’s not that training with food is bad. It’s what some trainers do with food that is the problem, such as failing to wean [...]