Teach your Dog Inside Voice – Capture Dog’s Natural Behavior and Place it on Cue

One of the neat things about using an instant reward marker is how you can capture a natural behavior and then teach your dog to do it on cue. Here’s a recent email exchange with my client, Elizabeth, who has a 4-5 month old large mix breed dog, Big Mac. BETH’S EMAIL: Well, I taught him….Inside voice….and he acts like he is going to bark but doesn’t make a sound……Now he...

January 16th, 2010 by AT 

**iPhone 3Gs Video ** Part 2: Teach your Dog to Walk on Human, Motorized Treadmill

Remember Duchess?  that cute dog who was afraid to step onto the treadmill? Follow this link for Part 1, the initial story. Success! Click the links below to watch 2 different videos of Duchess walking on the motorized treadmill. Alan J Turner How’s Bentley Dog Training – Memphis TN Tweet This Post
January 7th, 2010 by AT 

Part 1: Teach your Dog to Walk on Human, Motorized Treadmill

With the popularity of Caesar Milan’s TV show, The Dog Whisperer, occasionally a client will ask me to teach their dogs to walk on a treadmill. Caesar promotes treadmill workouts as a good way to exercise dogs, and they are! You can buy a non motorized, or motorized treadmill, made for dogs. Or you could use your human motorized treadmill. Many of us already have a motorized treadmill, but our treadmills...

October 12th, 2009 by AT