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Laura’s Coming to Wisconsin! 2-Day Clicker Workshop

    Laura laughing with Laev being silly
    Dog Training is serious. Always very serious.

    We interrupt this blog for a word from our sponsors!

    I’ll be in Wisconsin in a couple of weeks for a Core Clicker Seminar, a two-day hands-on intensive workshop for beginning to intermediate trainers and handlers. This is, if I say so myself, a pretty good training seminar. 🙂 And there are still a few working (and auditing) spots open!

    Social, Civil, and Savvy: Training & Socializing Puppies to Become the Best Possible Dogs

    When You Should NOT Socialize Your Dog — Part 2

      This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series When You Should NOT Socialize

      So all that chat in Part 1 about how to avoid creating problems while socializing a puppy was nice, but you’ve got an adult dog — and whether you made some socialization mistakes or whether you inherited a bad socialization legacy along with the dog, things just aren’t the way they should be. Is there hope?

      Yes, of course there’s hope! But again, here is where mistakes happen in the name of “socialization.” Don’t make them.

      How Operant Conditioning Sold my Pitch

        Kitsune-TsukiI spent last weekend immersed wholly in words. I don’t talk about it much here, but I also write fiction, and I’ve decided lately to put more effort into that area. So two things happened last week — my novelette Kitsune-Tsuki came out on ebook, and I attended a writers’ conference.

        beautiful backyard eggs, for the dogs

        The Snake Kit

          I live in Indianapolis, where the calendar runs January, February, Mud, Tornados, Welcome Race Fans, June. In the coming month I’ll be hearing about the Snake Pit at the Speedway — but at home, I’m preparing the Snake Kit.