Your dog just did something perfect. A full second later, you said “good boy.” In dog years, that second might be a week. He’s already moved on, sniffing the carpet, wondering what’s for dinner. The ...

I recently was a witness to a rather heated argument between two dog trainers about the relative effectiveness of "clicker training" compared to "marker training." After much noise and hand waving, it ...

I was watching an intermediate level dog obedience training class where the dogs were being trained to respond to hand signals. Floating over the usual class related sounds produced by people's voices ...