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Resolving Dog Reactivity by Teaching "This Way”1 day

MIchael Baugh CDBC

What are we trying to teach dogs who bark and lunge at other dogs, people, bikes, or cars on walks?

We call them “

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Training Your Dog to Come When Called1 week

Michael Baugh CDBC

Coming-When-Called (verb)

In response to a cue, the dog quickly decreases the distance from where they are to where you are, usually in a straight line, ending in front of you.

Reinforce this behavior every time it occurs.

Avoid asking for additional behavior, such as a sit, before reinforcing. Reward the come first. Everything else can...

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The Only Dog Training Energy We Need2 weeks

Michael Baugh CDBC

There was a time when a television personality popularized the idea of “energy” in dog training. Dominance energy. Pack leader energy. Alpha energy.

It made for interesting television. He became a star. Too many dogs paid the price.

Those ideas about energy often translated into kicks, hard leash ...

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Growing Older With Dogs: How Our Best Dog Choices Change With Age.3 weeks

Michael Baugh CDBC

Sixty crept up on me. I’m not saying forty feels like yesterday, but it certainly doesn’t feel like three dogs ago (Stella and Stewie were concurrent). We are getting older, have been since the day we were born. The choices we make about living w...

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