Creative Dog Training Online Podcast

Today Margaret and Damian will be starting the 1st Part of our new Series Babies and Dogs! Today they will be talking about Preparing your dog for a new baby and all the upcoming changes. They will talk about preparing your dog for the noises of a child, preparing your dog for changes in schedule and rules (like getting on furniture with a new baby, and stealing items), and making sure your dogs basic obedience is ready to handle every situation! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Many times we have suggested that you contact us or a qualified trainer in your area. Today we will continue with our 3rd and Final part of the series on how to pick a qualified trainer in your area! Today Margaret and Damian talk about what to look for when talking to a trainer in your area, dog training certifications, guarantees in dog training, and what to look for in support after your training program! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Many times we have suggested that you contact us or a qualified trainer in your area. Today we will continue with our 2nd part of the series on how to pick a qualified trainer in your area! Today Margaret and Damian will be talking about choosing the right training method for you and your dog. Being comfortable with a training method, whether positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement or clicker training is important for you to be able to learn. We will give you details on 7 dog training methods; Positive Reinforcement, Negative Reinforcement, Clicker Training, Lure Training, Lure Training, Place/Show or repetition training, Electronic Training, and Competition Training. Each method will talk about pros and cons as well as how trainers blend the methods! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Many times we have suggested that you contact us or a qualified trainer in your area. Today we will start a 3 part series on how to pick a qualified trainer in your area! Today, Margaret and Damian will be talking about the first step in choosing a trainer, and that's to clarify what you want from a trainer. Every trainer does it differently, so if you are clear on what you want, then finding the right person to give it to you will be easy! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Today Margaret and Damian will be talking about a very fun subject; Good Games to Play with Your Dog! We understand you are more likely to spend more time playing with your dog than training. And to be honest, we think that's the best thing you can do. We believe one of the most successful ways to train your dog is while playing games. As long as you play them correctly! We will give you tips and rules to play common games like tug of war and wrestling as well as how to teach a solid and happy come when called, plus some fun games for the kids and whole family to join in! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Today Margaret and Conor will be talking about Puppy Biting and how to improve it. We will let everyone in on a secret that puppies bite! And the only way to stop puppy biting is for your puppy to grow out of it! So that being said we will give you steps to understand and get control of puppy biting as well as teaching your puppy that it hurts when he does bite! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Today Margaret and Damian will be finishing up our series on Greetings by talking about Safe Dog to Dog Greetings. They will give you simple tips on what to look for when letting your dog greet another dog as well as helpful commands to use like 'Go Visit' and 'Switch' that you can use to make dog to dog greetings safe and fun for everyone involved! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Today Margaret and Damian will be continuing our series on Greeting Dogs. The topic today is Preparing Your Dog to Greet New People. Taking your dog to new places and greeting new people can be stressful for some dog owners. We will outline steps to teach your dog useful commands like 'Go Visit' which give your dog permission to politely greet as well as how to recognize stress signs and tips on how to position your dog to greet people in a friendly, confident way! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Today Margaret and Damian will be talking about Greeting Dogs the Safe Way. This may seem like a simple subject, and it is! But we have seen over the years that a lot of unfortunate dog bite incidents could have been avoided if people greeted dogs differently. So today we will give you the steps to safely greet a dog! These steps are also very good for teaching children to safely greet dogs as well. Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Today Margaret and Damian will be talking about our last step in our series on Stay with Proofing Stay. Basically Proofing Stay means teaching your dog to work around distractions like being petted by strangers, treats and toys, and even the neighbors cat. If you haven't had a chance to listen to and work on the first 2 parts, Teaching Stay and Practicing Stay, we recommend you take a second to listen and practice those steps! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Today Margaret and Damian will be continuing our discussion on teaching Stay the easy way by talking about Practicing stay to be successful! This cast is short, but gives you detailed tips on the best ways to practice for success as well as how to build a solid foundation so next week we can work on working with stay around distractions! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Today we are starting a 3 part podcast to give you the steps to teach stay the easy way! This week M&D will be laying the foundation with the teaching phase. We will give you simple steps to teach your dog what the command means as well as how to handle it when he gets up, and why that's a good thing! So work hard this week on teaching and next week we will work on practicing! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Continuing our Series on Respect we are talking today about the Command 'No'. Margaret and Damian will be talking about our philosophy of why we call the word 'No' a command. We will also discuss 'No' alternatives for situations like barking, jumping up, stealing objects, etc! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Continuing our Series on Respect we are talking about today about Come when Called. Margaret and Damian have talked about Come when Called before, but today we will be looking at it from a different angle. Showing you how to build respect and leverage respect to teach and use Come, as well as how to use your dogs natural thoughts and drives (Pack Drive, Prey Drive, and Defense Drive) to make training and using Come easier with your dog! And we will finish up with some fun games to teach Come that you can use with the whole family! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

Today Margaret and Damian will be talking about our next topic in the Respect Series - Goalie. Goalie is a fun game we use to teach our dogs respect for us, space, the couch, windows they bark out of, kitchen counters, etc. etc. Basically it is an effective tool for teaching respect for space around anything. We will give you the steps for teaching Goalie, as well as some tips on using it and common issues you may see! Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com