Shaping Success

Shaping Success

Free shaping is a type of animal training where you teach the behaviours in gradual steps using a marker, like a clicker, and rewards. Shaping can be a great way to teach some difficult behaviours, expand your animal’s capabilities, exercise their brains, and to...
Circus Dog

Circus Dog

Do You Have a Circus Dog? How much fun could a dog training class be? A little bit of tricks, a little bit of agility, a little bit of fun games and challenges all rolled into one. If you want to do something entertaining, unique, and enriching with your dog this is...
Congratulations Sarah and Frankie

Congratulations Sarah and Frankie

Barks and Recreation would like to extend a huge congratulations to owner Sarah Fulcher and employee Frankie Smith who completed the prestigious Karen Pryor Academy Dog Trainer Professional program this past weekend. We are committed to high quality continuing...
Lead by Example

Lead by Example

Lead by Example   By Sarah Fulcher, Cert.CBST, CTDI Leadership with regards to companion dogs is a tricky and controversial subject. Some trainers tout it as the end-all-be-all to any dog behavior problem, while others say it is not important at all. I fall...
Lead by Example

Lead by Example

Lead by Example   By Sarah Fulcher, KPA-CTP, Cert.CBST, CTDI Leadership with regards to companion dogs is a tricky and controversial subject. Some trainers tout it as the end-all-be-all to any dog behavior problem, while others say it is not important at all. I...