In episode 60, Sean responds to a question from some listeners about how prevent over excitement when your dog approaches and meets other dogs on a walk. Sean gives you a two-step game plan in this week’s homework to teach your dog to have perpetual awareness of you and settle in their nervous system when [...]
In episode 59, Sean answers a listener’s email about the serious aggression issue they have with their dog. Sean talks about two myths in dog behavior that often results in poor advice to owners of dog’s dealing with aggression issues. Sean describes his opinion on euthanizing dogs and the very first discussion he might have [...]
In episode 58, Sean responds to a question from some listeners about how to teach your excited puppy the rules of playing fetch. These exercises are designed to structure a puppy’s fetch game. A quick note that this isn’t designed to teach fetching to a dog that has absolutely no inclination to fetch. Also, you [...]
In episode 57, Sean answers a listeners question about how to get her puppy to stop playing roughly with her baby. Sean gives you a game-plan for training your puppy to get along with baby better and he gives you 3 areas to focus your training on that will make puppy-baby interactions more agreeable. [...]
In episode 56, Sean responds to a question from some listeners about how he approaches aggression cases. They had a bad experience with a trainer in their local area and want to know from Sean what sorts of things they should look for in a trainer that can help them solve some aggression issues with [...]
In episode 55, Sean interviews Ron Pace about his Diabetic Alert Service Dog Training. Ron explains how he finds the right dogs to do this sort of work, as well as outlining his training process. Ron has some great stories about how dramatic the benefits could be for diabetics when they have a diabetic alert [...]
In episode 54, Sean interviews David Van Kirk of Dogwatch Hidden Fence Systems to answer some of the questions that have come in over the last few months about these types of systems. Sean and David discuss the outdoor and indoor systems that this technology provides to create permanent boundaries for your dogs in and [...]
In episode 53, Sean answers a question from a professional dog trainer. She asks Sean about the differences in results that she gets when training a dog personally as opposed to the results that her clients get when training their dogs themselves. Sean outlines the top three mistakes dog owners make in training their dogs [...]
In episode 52, Sean answers a question from a listener who is thinking of adding a second dog to their family. Sean covers three areas: 1) how to decide whether it’s a good idea to add a second dog 2) some items to think about in finding a good match with your current dog 3) [...]
In episode 51, I interview Megan Esherick, Program Director for Canine Partners for Life. CPL is a service dog organization in Pennsylvania. They provide highly competent service dogs to recipients to assist with physical limitations, mobility issues, various medical alert services as well as many other issues. Megan and I discuss their breeding program, their puppy [...]