Blue Dog Training & Behavior

What are some of the books on my summer reading list as a certified professional, Dog Trainer and behavior consultant (who also wants to learn more about the sport of tracking in dogs)?

I’m posting this now because it looks like we’re going to get 16 to 20 inches of snow in a few days and two days ago it was 70° out!

My hope? If you post your summer reading list, summer will come!

What’s on your reading list? Have you read any of these? What did you think?

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This is 1 yr old Havanese Molly.

Molly just graduated from Blue Dog’s Foundation Stay & Train (our new force free/fear free home based board & train program for non puppies without serious behavior issues).

When Molly arrived
- She wasn’t certain where to go potty
- she knew “sit” but no one had ever been able to teach her down after an earlier negative experience with a trainer who physically forced position changes
- She ran the other way when she heard the word “come”
- she had an amazing temperament and was friendly with kids and dogs but could be a bit too exuberant at times and had a low tolerance for frustration (which really means she was just tired of humans not understanding her communication)!

Molly has wonderful human guardians who love her joy for life and wanted to make sure she knew basic cues that could help them keep her safe.

3 Weeks later….

- Molly has the fastest and most enthusiastic “down” cue.

It took patience and allowing her to build trust while teaching her simple easy to accomplish behaviors that she had no negative experience with.

We were building what we like to call a trust bank account. You may spend days or weeks building up that trust account with your dog, but by doing so you can ask for things that might be a little more difficult and require your dog to trust more.
Your dog is then willing to try because you’ve built up that trust account.

- Molly learned that people can understand what she is communicating and also she learned a verbal marker that let her know clearly when she had made a correct choice. This type of training, reduces uncertainty and frustration in your dog and opens up an entire new world of possibilities.

- Molly graduated with A wonderful recall behavior, an impressive “rest on Mat” behavior that we like to call “there’s no place like home” and a slew of tricks that she is happy to show anyone who is willing to watch!

- She learned to eat her food on a schedule which helped with her house, training issues and had only two accidents in three weeks!