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A lot of people wondered why I haven’t been writing and posting new pages or blog posts over the last year. It is because I have been writing a new book. Actually I also have two new books. I finished the edit on the short book about puppies a few months back. It is only…
Too often we ignore the dog when it’s behaving and pay attention to it when it’s misbehaving. Attention in the form of looking at, talking to, or touching can all reward behavior. Ignoring Good Dog Behavior is Easy When We Are Busy. Everyone is busy going about their daily tasks, so when the dog is…
Dog Training tip 1 Reward Good Behavior. My first dog training website was called 101 Dog Training Tips. I’m upgrading the tips and adding them to this website as a blog category. Dog training Tip number 1 Reward Good Behavior. Reinforcement Training in a Comprehensive Whole Dog training ProgramReinforcement Training in a Comprehensive Whole Dog…
My standard, How do you Teach your dog to “Potty” in the yard not on walks routine, plus recommendations from the old Dogs Community. In this article we’ll first look at my typical potty in the yard routine, then we will look at what members of social media suggested. Getting a dog to potty in…
The reason for a dog training plan is so you know what to do the moment it needs to be done. All successful people know planning and goal setting is important in many areas of life. One benefit of a well-designed dog training plan is getting the dog trained more quickly. Another benefit of a…
Dog training for the home office With more people working from home there’s an increasing need for dogs to learn good home office manners. Over the last year I’ve been on a lot of video conference calls with misbehaving and distracting pets in the background. Video calls really became popular starting in the early days…
“Happy National Dog Day to all my dog friends and their people. I am wishing all of you the very best in dogs and in life.Andrew
Training Dogs to be comfortable around people wearing a face mask is part socialization, part training, and part handling. We’ll start with general information about why we may need to train a dog to accept face masks. The training techniques are about one third down the page and comprise the second half of the article….
Andrew Ledford your hound dog trainer 714-827-4058 Yes I like hounds and I do Hound Dog training in Southern California. That is pet hound dog training. The training I do is for pet dogs and not hunting dogs. Although I do like going out to talk with the hunting hound dog groups in the area….
German Shorthaired Pointers (GSP) By Andrew Ledford 714-827-4058 I have had a couple of German Shorthaired Pointers (GSP) in my time. One was the most hyper dog I ever owned and the other was quit calm as German Shorthaired Pointers go. German Shorthaired Pointers are great dogs that are a fairly new breed; they were…
In 2014 I had a program on Long Beach Local Television called Dogs By Andrew. This is our first on the air dog show. Most of the shows in the near future will be about the different breeds we met at the expo. I am fascinated by the many dog breeds and they all have…
Getting A New Rescue Dog and Temperament TestingBy Andrew Ledford 714-827-4058 Orange County and Long Beach Dog Training The first dog in the series was very active and animal oriented in a friendly way. In the photo it is looking at another dog and ignoring me. This dog also did well when presented with a…
