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— Sarah Stremming
I can guess, with uncanny accuracy, what a team’s performance will look like in agility. This has nothing to do with the breed, or the experiences I have had with the handler. I can do it in a state I...
In 2011 I founded The Cognitive Canine with the mission of serving people whose dogs had behavioral concerns. In 2016 I started Cog Dog Radio. In the past ten years I have allowed the business to reach its branches, bend...
I was training with my agility coach the other day and my dog Rayya informed us she needed a break. She had just run a fast sequence and as she was being set up to run another one she went...
For nearly 15 years I have been recommending that my clients find ways to increase their dogs’ off leash time in nature. During large portions of that time, this was not easily accessible to me. When I worked three jobs...
Everyone wants to know what to do when their dogs make mistakes in training. There are all sorts of answers to this ranging from ignoring the error all the way up to attempting to punish the error. In reality, the...
My dog Idgie is eleven years old, and when I got her as an 8 week old puppy I was determined to “shape” 100% of her training. I was under the impression that luring was mindless, and I had fairly...
Today I am thinking about an 11 year old kid who invented a leash to stop leash pulling. You’ve heard the story. The system delivered electric stimulation to the dog if the dog pulled. He was nationally recognized and asked...
I talk about giving dogs choices a lot. In fact, I think offering more choice to our dogs is something often overlooked and extremely important. Choice is anxiety’s greatest enemy, and control over one’s own outcomes is a hardwired primary...
I pulled into the parking lot for my weekly competitive obedience class. I went around to the back of my car, opened it up, and saw my dog settle further into the back of his crate. I knew he didn’t...
The first night Idgie came home she screamed. She didn’t whine or fuss she full-on banshee-screamed. For eight hours. She didn’t stop. My colleagues told me I had to wait her out. I had to be careful not to let...
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