by Niki Tudge | May 26, 2018 | Blogs To Help You Train Your Dog, Uncategorized
By Niki Tudge An excerpt taken Chapter One of A Kids Comprehensive Guide to Speaking Dog . This chapter provides background for the parents. The remainder of the book is easy to read case studies supported by fabulous graphics. All behaviors that dogs...
by Niki Tudge | Feb 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Niki Tudge As a professional in the pet industry and one who is heavily invested in the promotion of force-free animal care, training and management I am always looking for new research and findings to help in the aged debate about dog training methods and their...
by Niki Tudge | Feb 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
Your Dog’s Name is SO Important! by Niki Tudge Name Recognition is the first component of a recall or most behaviors we ask our dog to perform. If name recognition is correctly trained then it can be used to break the dog’s projection before the recall cue or to...
by Niki Tudge | Jul 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
by Niki Tudge If you are looking for a dog trainer or dog behavior consultant, ask them questions about their understanding of canine social behavior and stay away from anyone citing canine dominance theory, alpha slang or the need to assert yourself as the “boss”....
by DogSmith | Jan 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
Dixie arrived for training this morning around 10am, she was dropped off by her foster mum who made the 50 mile drive to deliver her. Julie Hoxie a big thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to help us get Dixie up here. Julie is a nurse and works at...
by DogSmith | Jan 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
We are super excited to be joined by Dixie and Noel next week. They will both attend The DogSmith 14 day Training Program with a vision of them becoming Canine Good Citizens. We will be blogging about them and airing short video clips on their progress. If you want to...