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...

Baiting, Luring and Rewarding in Dog Training

Facebook friend and colleague Donna Hill made this neat little video explaining the difference between baiting, luring, and rewarding in dog training. I liked it so much, I wanted to re-share it. Donna writes: “People commonly call a treat pouch a bait bag. This...
The Scoop on Dog-Friendly Dog Training

The Scoop on Dog-Friendly Dog Training

By Sarah Fulcher, Cert. CBST Positive reinforcement training, also commonly called clicker training, positive training, dog-friendly training, force free training, or reward-based training, is a system for working with dogs and other animals in which the focus is on...