[quote user="Chuffy"]I'd be interested if you would share more about this period. [/quote] OK. Before I got Cara and Mia I read The Power of Positive Dog Training - by Pat Miller. I also read The Perfect Puppy - by Gwen Bailey and How to Raise a Puppy You Can Live With - by Clarice Rutherford...

Forget the equipment and start training for attention at home using clicker training. You can modify any behavior with this system and it is pretty much boo boo proof so you can feel confident that you aren't creating more of a monster. I mean if they can train tigers, elephants, dolphins using this...

[quote user="Cita"]He'll do some stuff with "friendly" objects. I think putting food in it or around it will help a lot. For example, after I took the towel away, he went around the room pawing at any other objects on the floor. "How the heck am I supposed to paw the dumb...

If you're open to it, you may want to try a holistic vet. Not being there to see it, it is hard for me to figure out if this is normal sighthound stuff or something more. What happens if you stand between him and what he's staring at to break the stare? Does the stare look like an intent prey...

LOL That's too funny! My name is Carla and I am "surly" about using the clicker! But I'm doing it anyway! I am using it with 2 dogs regularly so far. Jaia and B'asia. Cara is highly food motivated, so she picked it up right away and with her, it's mostly a game for fun and food...

[quote user="Lee Charles Kelley"] Too many owners and trainers ignore this, thinking if the dog is producing physical behaviors on command, they've been successful. (I've also heard a lot of clicker trainers complain privately that their dogs have developed food-related misbehaviors...

(Please note the disclaimer in my signature, as required by idog rules.) Clicker training has helped two of my dogs become great therapy dogs, with reliable obedience behavior and a repertoire of tricks, too. It has helped my clients' dogs in many ways as well. I like the fact that it is a force...

Hi everyone. I've put together an instructional clicker training video with the help of my border collie Max. If you are interested in learning more about clicker training check it out! Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BAj03SicyY