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Rewards and Positive Reinforcement Consequences

The language we use when discussing our training methods can sometimes be slightly misleading.  Much discussion is given to the...
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To Teach or To Train?

  By Niki Tudge Whether we train, teach, or both, what are we ultimately impacting? Buckingham and Coffman (1999) differentiate...
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Dog Training or Behavior Consulting – What’s the difference?

  Listen to a five minute podcast about the DogSmith and our  training and behavior services. There is a difference...
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Open Your Own Business

So You Want To Become A Dog Trainer?

by Niki Tudge Many people working professionally in the pet care industry have different letters or alphabet soup as I...
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Open Your Own Business

The Marketing Equation That Works!

The Marketing Equation Once you have a marketing plan in place I can guarantee it will include activities like social...
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Dog Training Professionals

Marketing for Service Practitioners

  In the pet industry, most of your clients will come from referrals, usually from professional pet-related organizations like humane...
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Blogs To Help You Train Your Dog

The Science of Force-Free Learning: How Our Pets Learn!

Introduction  Here at the DogSmith, professional members of the Pet Professional Guild (PPG), we like to focus on building relationships...
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Blogs To Help You Train Your Dog

Pet Owners – Advocate for Your Pets!

According to the American Pet Products Association (2017), 68 percent of Americans return home to a pet (or pets) each...
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DogSmith Board and Train Programs

So Much Dog, So Little Time! With Your Busy Schedule, Leave The Training To Us. Wouldn’t it be great if...
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Teaching Your Dog to Like Praise

Teaching Your Dog to Like Praise   Praise must be rewarding to your dog in order for you to use...
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Dog Training Professionals

That Dog Training Method

That Dog Training Method ......... There are always rumblings on social media about different dog training methods and their names...
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Training Your Pet

It makes me cringe and it’s unwise to say “just ignore the problem behavior”!

It makes me cringe and its unwise to say “just ignore the problem behavior”! By Niki Tudge Last week while...
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Confessions of a Lazy Dog Trainer!

The personal goals I have for my dogs and myself are very simple. They are for them to have the...
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Training Your Pet

People or Pets? Don’t Punish – Teach

Teaching helps your learner to develop new and more appropriate skills. Punishment in a given context may temporarily suppress the problem...
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Dog Training Professionals

Mechanics: Training with the use of a “reset cookie”.

This is a good example of one of the many handouts we provide to our DogNostics Dog Training and Behavior...
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People Training Skills

Understanding the Two – and Three -Term Contingencies & their Role in Employee Training!

The Two- and Three-Term Contingencies There is much more to the theory of operant and respondent conditioning that will help...
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People Training Skills

A System of Learning for Humans and Pets.

Several years ago, I developed a system of training for the DogSmith, my national licensing company. The system, which I...
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Recruitment and Training

People Training & the Use of Science and Systems

  In my opinion, learning takes place in two different contexts. The first of these is task-conscious or acquisition learning,...
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Dog Training Professionals

Each and every situation is a teaching moment. Why i don’t use “NO”

There is much debate about using the word "NO" in training and education. Here is my take on this! Scenario...
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People Training Skills

Is Your Trainee a Prisoner?

An excerpt from Training Big for Small Businesses by Niki Tudge   To be thorough about our training program needs...
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