Separation Anxiety in Dogs
What is Separation Anxiety? Separation anxiety is a panic disorder. Some dogs experience stress and exhibit signs of anxiety ranging from mild to extreme when their owner is absent. Some owners have come home [...]
Janice Gunn earns Top CKC National Obedience Competitor Award
CKC National Obedience Competitor of the Year This award recognizes an individual who has achieved excellence in CKC obedience and Rally Obedience competitions. Candidates must demonstrate fair competition, success at national and international levels, [...]
Teach Your Dog to Load and Unload Safely in a Car
In this video, Janice shares useful tips for getting your dog used to loading and unloading into the car and how to teach your dog to check in with you as they [...]
Competition Obedience Heeling 101 by Janice Gunn
This Janice Gunn article originally appeared in the DogSport Magazine's July / August 2011 issue. DogSport has very kindly given us permission to release the article on our website. Click the image [...]
How to Teach Your Dog to Weave Between Your Legs
It is always great to keep training interesting by teaching your dogs new things. The leg weave is a fun trick where your dog weaves through your legs in a figure 8 pattern. [...]
Tips for Dealing with Car Sickness in Dogs
download the car-sickness-in-dogs article in pdf format You have so many fun plans for your new puppy: play dates with friends’ dogs, outings to the park or beach, and training classes. But… [...]
Teach Your Puppy to Sit & Stay
Janice and her new puppy, Catch, demonstrate how to teach sit and stay using positive training methods. Introducing, Catch, my eight-week old golden retriever puppy. In this video, I am going to [...]
Leverage Food Rewards for a Big Impact on your Recall
In this video training tip, Janice explains how use leverage the dog's dinner to level up your recall training. This technique uses the concept of a "jackpot" for building the [...]
Graduate Advanced Intro
After our puppy and beginner classes where you learned the basics, such as sit, down and the beginning of heeling: you move on to more advanced skills - here are a couple that [...]
Seven Takes a Hit and Earns his First CDX Leg
Today in trial #1 Seven earned his CD title Sparks was in OB and UB, earned a UDX leg and High in Trial. In trial #2 - Seven moved up to Open to earn [...]
Proofing Marks for the Go-out
In this video I demonstrate proofing exercises I do for the go-out, teaching how to maintain a strong go out focus. The first part of the video features my green 2 year old dog. [...]
Put a Spin on it – Teaching the Spin
The spin is a simple and fun trick that even young puppies can learn. We like to teach spin not only because the dogs really enjoy it but it is a good one for [...]
Proofing Various Exercises for Fun and Focus
Once your dog is fluent in an exercise both at home and in new locations, you can then start to proof and challenge their knowledge on these skills when things look different than they normally [...]
Boomer Son, Eli, Earns his Master Hunter Title
We recently heard from Eli's owners and this is what they had to say about thier wonderful boy. I wanted to share with you that Eli (son of TNT's Boomer) earned his MH [...]
Use a “V” to Train a Better Broad Jump
This technique will help to prevent your dog from getting into the habit of cutting the corner of the broad jump. It will also give your dog more arch on his jump and ensure [...]
Boomer’s daughter “Turbo Twilight Explosion” joins the Hunt Test Hall of Fame
Reaching the Hunt Test Hall of Fame is a huge accomplishment and we are so proud of this Boomer daughter. It takes a huge amount of talent, drive and tenacity on the part of [...]
Rear End Awareness for Left Turns & Left Finishes
In this video I demonstrate how I use a 3-foot dowel to help my young dog, Seven, stay tight to my left side and not flare his rear out. The first exercise in [...]
How to use food correctly in Dog Training
In this video training tip Janice covers the basics of using food correctly in dog training. Using positive reinforcement is the fastest and most efficient way to teach dogs new behaviours. Janice will demonstrate how [...]
Teaching my dog to jump full height in competition obedience
Now that my young boy Seven has reached 18 months and his growth plates should be closed it is safe to start teaching him to jump full height. To ensure this is a positive experience [...]
Fading Reinforcement
Download: Fading Reinforcement PDF Before You Fade Reinforcement Your dog should be really solid on the behaviour before you start to fade reinforcement. For each exercise, you should have gone through the [...]
