The Myth of “Only Tell Them Once”
What if you ask a dog (whatever age, breed, sex, background, training level) to do something, but there is no…
Positively Hopeful for the Future
The online dog training community is not a particularly nice place to be these days. The Us vs Them mentality…
Training Equals Conversation
In an online discussion about mixing play sessions with training, there were some strong opinions about how and why things…
How Is This For YOU? and My Dogs – by Cindy Knowlton
Guest author: Cindy Knowlton, See Spot Grin “How is this for you?” It’s one of Suzanne Clothier’s Elemental Questions. I…
A Simple Question: Heard, Helped or Hugged?
An article in the New York Times focused on borrowing from an approach to dealing with children. When dealing with…
My Hypothesis Is . . .
Consider yourself a scientist doing research. Turns out, in many ways, every time we interact with a dog, we are…
A few weeks back, a good friend of mine and fellow trainer, Gemma from Fisher Fix Dogs, asked if I’d…
Gardener or Carpenter?
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/05/28/614386847/what-kind-of-parent-are-you-carpenter-or-gardener When I first encountered psychology & philosophy professor Alison Gopnik’s work, it made me think a lot about how…
Behavioral Flexibility is a Many Splendored Thing
Reactive. Intelligent. Aggressive. Distracted. Trainable. These are very big and very broad labels that are used to describe a range…
Learning to Listen by Cindy Knowlton
This is a guest post, from trainer Cindy Knowlton, owner of See Spot Grin in Maryland. Click here for other…
