I’ve done mind mapping for many years, about as long as I’ve been training my dogs, but never until today did it cross my mind to combine the two activities.

So what is mind mapping, and why might you want to use it for your own dog training? If a picture is worth a thousand words, here is a mind map I just made for training Lola, our nearly year-and-a-half Rottweiler. It should give you an idea.

For this mind map, I used software I downloaded, but until recently I did all my mind mapping on paper with marking pens or whatever was at hand. You just start with Read the rest of this entry

Do you know how long ago clicker training began with dogs?

Only twenty years ago, nobody was clicker training their dogs, even though marine mammal trainer Karen Pryor had already written a book called Don’t Shoot the Dog. I remember reading it back in the 80s when Read the rest of this entry