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Advanced Dog Training

Train Your Dog to Target

During the two-plus decades that I trained my dogs in old-fashioned obedience classes, I never learned the pervasively useful and versatile behavior of targeting. The closest I came was the narrow application to go-outs" in advanced level competition classes – not really the same thing at all. Even today

Advanced Positive Dog Training Terms and Techniques

such as going through a series of "weave poles."üPremack exercise: To get the prize

Classical Conditioning for Dogs

Classical conditioning, quite simply, is learning by association. It is when a person or animal associates one stimulus with something that was not previously associated.

Target-Train Your Dog to Ring A Doorbell

Each month, I stand in the middle of my training center during the second session of my newest Level One class and introduce my...