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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…
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 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…
Do you need to get your dog to like your cat? It’s not uncommon to introduce a new dog into a household that already has a pet. It is most common for people that have dogs to add another one. I did a short article about having two aggressive dogs in a families a while…
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?…
Does Your Dog Bolt Through The Door and Run off? Last night I was training a dog that knew every route away from and back to its house. The interesting thing is that if I did something out of the ordinary, such as go down an ally or through a strip shopping center the dog…
Helping a scared dog overcome its fear with board and train dog training. Fearful dog training in public and learning how to cope with stressIn the video we are working in public places to help overcome this dog’s fearfulness. It took many weeks for my little dog friend to begin walking on a leash. Then…
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…
What Should I do When Getting A New Puppy? Are you getting a new dog this year? If so you may want to know more about new dog syndrome. Understanding New dog syndrome can help us and our dogs deal more effectively with the stress of bringing a new dog into the household. Getting New…
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…
Natural Dog Training Without a Leash and Collar or a Clicker. Dog Trainer’s Forum Post – dog training Without a Leash or Clicker.For more information about my training programs call me at 715-827-4058 Once upon a time at a Southern California Dog Trainers’ forum we had an interesting meeting where many people discussed the various…
Moscow’s stray dogs article on FM.com is what motivated me to write this post. Popsci.com also has an article going over much of the same info as FM.com. In the Popsci.com article from January, 21, 2010 talks about Andrei Poyarkov, who is a researcher at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution. Poyarkov is…
