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Dog Leash Walking - Be More Interesting

Dog Leash Walking - Be More Interesting

    A quick video to show you some of the basic, often overlooked strategies for successful leash walking.    
Stop Dog Counter Surfing

Stop Dog Counter Surfing

  Learn easy and humane strategies to train your dog to stop counter or table surfing. Simple, easy to follow instructions.   

Dog Leash Pulling Strategies - Stay Close to Home

Stop Leash Pulling - Stay Close to Home This is a simple, but often overlooked strategy when working on leash walking strategies. Dogs pull towards . . . anything that they are interested in. If you stay close to home, your dog will get used to (or even bored) with the location and will pay more...

  • Jeff Millman
  • 2012-02-03 18:06:55
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Leash Training - Work Inside With Your Dog First

Stop Leash Pulling Leash pulling is a big problem with dogs. To avoid frustration for you and your dog, you should start working inside with your dog on leash. Control the distractions by putting one distraction on your floor. You can use a treat, a toy, a food bowl, or have one of your dog's...

Dog Training Come When Called - Remove Help

Dog Training Come When Called Troubleshooting It might be helpful to see what I do when a dog doesn't come when I call. You can see Ellie ignoring my command. Notice I do not say "Come" again, but instead use my backup plan. In this case I put her on leash and continue working.  Make sure you pay...

Dog Training Come When Called - More Examples

Small Successes Add Up If you have seen my other How to Train Your Dog To Come Videos you have already seen the importance of using helpers. This video continues with more examples of how the small details add up. Notice Roxy (the Yorkie) takes itsy bitsy steps towards me. Based on where she...

Dog Training Come When Called - More Help

Repetition is Key Even if you provide full help, such as gently pulling the leash or tapping the ground, your dog will eventually learn. It takes literally thousdands of repetitions before your dog can learn a behavior fluently. But, you also need to be aware that each new location comes with its...

Basic Dog Training - Come When Called

Come When Called Basics Not mentioned in the video, but very important are some simple steps to make it easier to train your dog to come when you call.  Say the cue ONCE, and make it happen. Don't repeat cues. This is often a hard thing to do, but an important strategy. Don't give a punishment or...

  • 2011-12-13 17:51:06
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Dog Leash Walking - Let's Go

Shape Behaviors First You will see this in all of my videos. This is the process of molding your dog's behaviors by simply rewarding behaviors that you like. You just wait until your dog does something that you like, and 'click' and treat. You can also say, "Yes" if you don't have a clicker. Need...

Dog Leash Walking - Walk Away

 Teach Your Dog To Walk Towards You It is very useful if a dog understands then when he feels a tight leash he should walk towards the person holding the leash. Tight leashes can happen when: You go one direction and your dog goes the otherYou are going slower than your dogYou are going faster than your...

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