Thursday, February 12th, 2009 at
2:26 pm
I’m a big fan of crate training, but not for all dogs. That link takes you to a long page I wrote about the main website about crate training, how to do it, and when not to. But I don’t talk about clicker training there. So as I’ve been reading Clickertraining: the 4 Secrets of Becoming a Supertrainer recently, I noticed that they have a chapter on crate training. It’s near the end of the ebook, and so I thought it might draw on clicker methods that would be pretty advanced. It doesn’t really though.
I was very pleased to see that Morten and Cecilie, the authors of the ebook, take the same view I do that crate training is not something to be rushed!
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Monday, February 9th, 2009 at
2:55 pm
We’ve had our Rottweiler Lola for about a year and a half now, and I’ve learned a lot about training dogs in general and Rotties in particular from her. Here are five things that may help you with your own dog training, no matter what size dog you have… but especially if you have a large dog! (Here, Lola demonstrates one of her favorite postures.)
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009 at
3:18 pm
The 133rd annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York will be on television next Monday, February 9th, and Tuesday, February 10. I’ll be watching! Also, another award that interests me will be given out: the Maxwell, for the best dog book of the year. See the list of book nominees below.
Back to Westminster for a bit: streaming video of individual breed judging is available on the Westminster site within hours of the events taking place. There will be over 2500 dogs this year, broken down into the usual seven groups; Hound, Terrier, Non-Sporting, Herding, Sporting, Working and Toy.
I’m not all that much into showing dogs, have never done it, though I have gone to quite a few dog shows… when they were easy to get to. What I love about watching dog shows is, well, the dogs! Their interactions with people, their well-mannered closeness to other dogs of many species. Read the rest of this entry
Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at
1:53 pm
Secrets to Dog Training is the new name of the popular Sit Stay Fetch ebook, by Daniel Stevenson. I reviewed Sit Stay Fetch before I had this blog, on my main site… that link takes you to my review.
Sit Stay Fetch… oops, I mean Secrets to Dog Training… may be the best-selling dog training ebook on the internet. And with good reason: Read the rest of this entry
