Fun Trick Dog Training

26/01/2025

Rebel passed his canine fitness - Level 1

Rebel has been working on his canine conditioning. You can use the timestamps below to focus on the parts you would like to watch. ⏱ Timestamps00:00 Title 00...

26/01/2025

Children did enjoy the birthday party with Jane and Lottie showing their tricks today. Happy 6th Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉
Both dogs have done very well, Jane just like a pro she is and Lottie trying her best not to steal all the toys from the toy box 😀
dogparty

25/01/2025

I love playing place an item with my dogs 🐾🐾

25/01/2025

Hoop tricks with Lottie

Lottie has been working on her hoop tricks. You can use the timestamps below to focus on the parts you would like to watch. ⏱ Timestamps00:00 Title00:05 One ...

23/01/2025

Another catch for the monthly challenge. Alice is catching 3 items and placing them into a box 🐾🐾

22/01/2025

Little Flora is really getting the hang of trick training and loves jumping into the box 🐾🐾

22/01/2025

Well done Benji - Novice Trick Dog :)

21/01/2025

Mo and Rue enjoyed their first walk this year last week. They are great together ❤️ 🐾

20/01/2025

Bea has been working on her fitness titles. These are some exercises with Fit Bones for level 1 🐾🐾

19/01/2025

Bessie is working on her Expert tricks as part of her Champion - Achoo! Well done Bessie 🐾🐾

19/01/2025

Coco has passed her tricks with a beam :)

Coco has been working on her tricks with a beam as part of the Dog Olympics.You can use the timestamps below to focus on the parts you would like to watch. ⏱...

18/01/2025

Beans is also taking part in the monthly challenge with the Dogapult from Toby's Dog Toys Well done Mr Beans 🐾🐾

17/01/2025

We used the snow as one of our obstacles for dog parkour, that was last week. Today it is all gone :(
Bea is working on her creativity parkour titles where 3 behaviours are required with one obstacle which has different colours, textures, shapes and sizes 🐾🐾

16/01/2025

Ana has been working on her advanced tricks - fetch the post from the mailbox is one of them 🐾🐾 Well done Ana!

15/01/2025

Cardi - Intermediate Trick Dog

14/01/2025

Catch is the monthly challenge for January 🐾🐾 Luna has added basketball to her catch 🐾🐾

14/01/2025

As you may know, Karen Pryor passed away early this month.

I met Karen several times at conferences, and I had the great fun of hosting her as an invited speaker for the Art and Science of Animal Training Conference in 2017.

One thing I loved about Karen was that she understood the power of reinforcing approximations, both with animal learners and human learners.

I was browsing my copy of “Lads Before the Wind,” which Karen Pryor wrote in 1975, and I came across this quote in the shaping chapter:

“The art of shaping, the game of it, is in thinking up what to shape and figuring out how to get there. …

The path to the desired end point can take any direction; there are probably as many ways to shape a given behavior as there are trainers to train it.”

I first came across the idea of shaping after reading Karen Pryor’s Don’t Shoot the Dog in 2008.

As I experimented with shaping, I found it fascinating to try and find the right approximations to communicate with my animal learners.

I also realized that positive reinforcement and shaping gave me so many more possibilities for how to teach a behavior. I was limited only by my creativity.

As well, I found this to be a lot more fun than the traditional training I was doing at the time — a lot more fun for both me and the animal.

So, I started trying to learn all I could about positive reinforcement and the science of behavior, and I didn’t look back.

Thank you, Karen Pryor.

13/01/2025

Lottie passed her Bronze test this morning. Thank you Linda and Sarah 😊🐾