Dog Behavior

How to train your dog for the home office and the working from home lifestyle

How to train your dog for the home office and the working from home lifestyle

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…

Getting A New Rescue Dog

Getting A New Rescue Dog

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…

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One or Two Dogs and Behavior Problems Associated With Multi-Dog Families

What are some problems encountered when more than one dog lives in same house?By Andrew Ledford 714-827-4058 Many people believe having two dogs will reduce behavior problems. The logic is two or more dogs will keep boredom away. But is it really true that the companionship of another dog will keep them out of mischief?…

Some Questions About Interactive Dog Toys and Puzzles

By your dog trainer Andrew Ledford 714-827-4058 Interactive Dog toys with special interest placed on dog puzzle toys, what is their effect on dog training, learning, and teaching – thoughts from a Dog Trainers Forum presentation. This article was first published around 2008 on my 101-Dog-Training-Tip website concerning a dog training presentation I attended about…

Managing dog behavior and people’s too

Encourage good dog behavior with the appropriate discriminative stimuli. Is managing discriminative stimuli part of philosophy, business management, or dog training? This is what Wikipedia has to say about “Stimulus control and discriminative stimuli: Stimulus control is the phenomenon of a stimulus increasing the probability of a behavior (operant response) because of a history of…