I’m really stoked by how dog trainer Leslie Nelson gets dogs to come when called — reliably! Her methods have saved some lives already and I’m sure will save a lot more. I wrote an article for the site called Teach Your Dog a Really Reliable Recall and also did a page on Nelson’s Really Reliable Recall DVD. (She’s done a booklet too, and it’s mentioned on that page.)

You can use her methods with a dog of any age, with any established habits. It will take more time in some cases, but it’s really worth the trouble. Poignantly, a couple of days after I did those pages, I was surfing the net, for once not even with dogs on my mind, when I came across a sad blog entry in Australia, by a woman whose dog had been killed by a car a few days before. I can’t even type this without tears coming to my eyes. Our dogs are so precious, they give us so much! Here is something we can do to make their lives safer.

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