Training time means the time, place, you and your dog are all in a good spot where learning can occur. Management moments are when things are not conducive to learning. Knowing where you are is a big part of getting where you want to go. This webinar will help you clarify moment by moment, and provides practical advice to help you and your dog.
Webinar TALKS WITH DOGS: How Our Body Language Affects Our Communication with Dogs Canine body language is fascinating! Books and…
This webinar is an overview that introduces you to Treat/Retreat, a powerfully effective technique is used to help socially shy dogs. This is a dog-centric technique that is force-free. Respect for the dog’s boundaries, arousal and abilities are combined with nuanced observation and engagement of SEEKING to help build the dog’s skills.
Suzanne’s compassionate and holistic approach to defining the “right size world” is based on the individual dog’s needs, abilities and preferences.
How does it work, a life with so many dogs? At the moment, there is only 7, though we’ve had…
Dogs, Kids, and Avoiding the ‘Forest of Fibs’: Learn Effective Ways to *Really* Help Families and their Dogs, with Justine…
A podcast is a way to share your dog training message and enthusiasm directly with your clients and community. Join…
SO excited to be back in Chicagoland at my mid-West home away from home: For Your K9. Details to come. Save the dates!
In an online discussion about mixing play sessions with training, there were some strong opinions about how and why things…
This webinar will encourage you to think about assessments and testing in deeper ways, including knowing what you need to know, defining your criteria, and scaling the responses and behaviors you observe. Suzanne’s legendary observation skills and whole-dog approach, plus her FAT app, gives you new tools to understand the dogs in your life.
Assessing behavior and evaluating a dog can be challenging! So many factors play a role in the dog’s behavior that it can be difficult to distinguish a response to environmental or social triggers from a true temperament response or behavior pattern. When we carefully assess function as a reflection of well-being, we have a better sense of how that dog is doing.
