Podcast Episodes

Pros and cons of pushing a dog in training

As with most things, it's not black-and-white. Some dogs benefit from more splitting, patterns, higher rate of reinforcement, and easier training ses…

3 years, 9 months ago

Guest: Dante Camacho and Denise chat

We had a great talk! We talked about relationship, playing with dogs, what Dante has learned working with other species, preparing for dog sports com…

3 years, 9 months ago

Relationship

Do you have a relationship with your dog or a dependency? Does your dog want to spend time with you, or are they trying to avoid the alternatives? We…

3 years, 10 months ago

Behavior Meds for Dogs

Are you against medication for your dog? Take a listen to this Instagram live recording where we talk about just that!

Follow my training!

The High D…

3 years, 10 months ago

Play in regards to behavior

Here we have a short discussion of personal play, food play, and toy play, specifically in relation to changing the dogs emotional state.

Follow my t…

3 years, 10 months ago

Example of controlling behavior but not an emotion

Dice gave a perfect example of controlling his behavior without impacting the underlying emotion. This goes along with the fact that we can control e…

3 years, 10 months ago

Condition emotions & train behaviors!

It is critically important to know the difference between an emotion and a behavior. Changing a behavior to look the way you want does not mean the d…

3 years, 10 months ago

Errors: The Big Three

Handling errors of impulse, quality and understanding!

There are many reasons why dog make errors. In this live, I covered the three that showed up …

3 years, 11 months ago

Sensitive Dogs with Guest Sharon Carroll

Guest Sharon Carroll and Denise chat about sensitive dogs

I have spent a lot of time talking about dogs who express arousal through high levels of e…

3 years, 11 months ago

The Spaces Inbetween

The reality is, in most dog sports 70% of your time is spent waiting for the judges direction, moving to the start of an exercise, etc. Relatively li…

3 years, 11 months ago