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How to Pet Your Pup

We recommend using the 3 Second Game as a way to pet your pup. This is a method for engaging with our dog that helps us to understand what they’re comfortable with. It allows your dog to communicate with you their feelings on the interaction. This builds trust between you Read More

The Up Down Game

The Up-Down game is a fun pattern game for you to play with your dog. This game provides structure for your dog while they process what is going on around them which helps your dog to acclimate to the environment. This exercise can be used whenever you notice your dog Read More

Treat Magnet

A treat magnet is when you’re able to move your dog around with them following a treat that’s in your hand. The point of a treat magnet is for the dog’s nose to stay connected to your hand the entire time they follow it, wherever it goes. How to Teach: Read More

Down

First and foremost, down is DIFFERENT from stationing. Stationing = all 4 feet on an object such as a mat or dog bed. To prevent any confusion, teach your dog down on a regular floor surface so that your dog doesn’t come to understand it as having to lay down Read More

Next was Chloe, a little Havanese pup who enjoys two visits a day from her walker Katie as she learns how to be house trained (and Katie had taught her a trick or two already too!)

Sit

Sit is one of the basic manners behaviors we help you teach your dog. Along with being a great trick to show people, as you progress through the levels in class sit becomes part of other behaviors such as to heel position, default behaviors, and could also be a start Read More

The Name Game

The Name Game is an easy fun game for your pup to play. Say their name, give them a treat. No clicker necessary here. Initially we aren’t looking for our dog to turn towards us right when we say their name, they don’t know it’s their name yet that’s why Read More

Leave it

This is one of the most important behaviors you can teach your dog, it can be a lifesaving cue if your dog is going after something that they really shouldn’t have. “Leave it” is a way to communicate to your dog to ignore something we don’t want them to interact Read More