After publishing our last dog trainer profile article on “Seven More of The Best Dog Trainers You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Before…” we received several requests to profile younger dog trainers. Well, here’s a start: They’ve got more skill than most dog trainers twice their age. These seven young dog trainers are going to be tomorrow’s “big names” in …
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In light of the tremendous feedback we’ve received from our original article, “The Seven Best Dog Trainers You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Before” … we decided to complie another list: Seven More Of The Best Dog Trainers You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Before 1. Bridget Carlsen You’ll find no better example of someone who uses her own personal …
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Move over Cesar, NY dog trainer Blake Rodriguez should have his own TV show. “Baxter is a dog who came in for our board-and-train program,” says Rodriguez. Blake does an amazing job of explaining how to use a remote collar as he demonstrates in this clip with Baxter. (below) In this video, he’s using a Mini Educator remote …
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Larry Krohn is a special agent for the U.S. Government Department of Homeland Security. He also leads a secret double life as one of Nashville’s top professional dog trainers. Although in truth… that’s probably not a secret to anybody living in the Nashville area. Larry recently wrote about his morning rituals with his dog, Luca. …
If you thought the dog trainers on TV were the best of the best… you’d be wrong. Sure, Cesar Milan is (for the most part) pretty good at rehabilitating dogs with problems. And that British woman who walks around with the knee-high boots and the bad attitude? Don’t get me started. There are hundreds of …
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Here is a letter I received from another professional dog trainer reads: Hi Adam, I’m Jim Haines. My partner Brenda and I graduated from Tom’s [Tom Rose’s School For Professional Dog Trainers, in St. Louis, Missouri] 20 week program, four years ago. We have trained just over 1000 dogs/owners (the vast majority being in-kennel training …
I never yell at my dog. Never. Well, okay. There’s one exception. And that exception is if: I’m already working with the dog at such a far distance that he can’t audibly hear me. And usually this is the case only if I’m teaching the dog to respond to hand signals. Why don’t I ever …
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Hand Signals. Hand Signals I teach by linking the hand signals with the verbal commands I have already taught. So what you do is, give the new command and THEN the old command, and then go and enforce the behavior. For instance, if I wanted to teach the dog to sit with the hand signal, …
Onto the Level II. I teach the recall predominately with the long line. I get a 20 foot or a 30 foot long line… you can get one from a horse and tack store… and “set the dog up” so that the dog gets distracted and runs off from you… and as he gets to …
I was rumaging through the outer regions of my hard drive last week when I came upon a letter I’d written to a dog trainer on the East Coast. He’d asked me how I run my private lessons for my clients at South Bay K-9 Academy. (I’m no longer accepting new clients). So, I dictated …