The Modern Dog Trainer Blog
What Is Clicker Training? – Our Favorite Explanation
Here's our favorite explanation to the common question: What is clicker training? Clients always ask: What is clicker training? Even if they don't ask, what they think they know may be incorrect or incomplete. This video by Kristin Crestejo is our favorite video...
What Is The Point Of Using Food In Training?
Using food in training is your best option to create social, confident, and obedient dogs for your clients. Many modern dog trainers utilize food in training. While food is an incredibly practical way to motivate dogs, it serves another important functions when it...
Dog Play: Breaking Down Body Language
Breaking down dog-dog play is an important part of teaching dog training and socialization classes. In this video, Donna Hill narrates two dogs playing together. She helps us identify what dog play body language is occurring. http://youtu.be/HOiAwIxpt1c These two dogs...
Precise Obedience: Exercises To Increase A Dog’s Back End Awareness
Increase a dog's accuracy in competitions by practicing back end awareness exercises. Back end awareness is not something that comes naturally to dogs. Most dogs don't realize they have anything behind their shoulders. Back end awareness exercises help dogs learn how...
A Click Really Is Better Than A Yes!
For many owners and trainers, verbal markers are utilized first and foremost before a clicker. While a verbal "yes" is effective, it doesn't quite beat out using a clicker for precise communication. In the article "Amygdala: the Neurophysiology of Clicker Training" by...
Preparing For The APDT Conference in Hartford
Finding Roommates The APDT Community has a specific discussion thread about finding roommates for the APDT Conference. Having a roommate makes the trip and stay more affordable and fun! Roommates allow you to network efficiently by meeting friends of friends as you...