Don’t Disappoint Your Dog, Plan Ahead

Your Dog Can Be Very Loyal To His Toys!

If your dog really loves his toy, consider getting a second one and keeping it for the future, just in case it’s discontinued or out of stock when you want a replacement.

My dad used to say, when you find something you really like, you’d better buy a [...]

Train Dogs to Respond Quickly

Stimulate your dog to work faster or harder by doing the following:

Occasionally offer ‘higher value’ rewards for good performance.

Dogs get bored with their treats,  try real chicken or cheese for a change.

If you train with toys, try one of our exciting new Buffalo fur toys, or a leather toy.

If your dog is stimulated by having [...]

Train your dog

Train you dog to fetch the paper

#1 Take it slow when teaching your dog new behaviors.

#2 Teach your dog to fetch the paper in 5 steps.

#3 Link several behaviors to teach your dog new tricks.

Teach your dog faster with Play

#1 Dogs learn fastest and best when playing.

#2 Have fun and enjoy your dog training, you’ll [...]

Dog Tugging Games Stimulate Performance

Tug Games Stimulate Performance not Aggression

Studies have now proven that playing tug games with dogs will not cause a dog to be aggressive.

This common misconception had survived for a long time however, we know now that playing tug is a natural game. Dogs play tug for the fun, which makes tug games are very effective [...]

Train Behaviors One Step at a Time

Training your dog one step at a time will help your dog learn faster and retain the knowledge. Breaking your training down into the smallest possible steps will help solve dog training problems which will help you and your dog be happier.

Easy as 1 – 2 – 3

You learned in class this week how to ‘sit’ your puppy by directing his head with a treat. ‘Trainer speak’ for this teaching method is “Luring”. It’s called that because your puppy wound up sitting while his nose was following the treat or the ‘lure’. He didn’t make a decision to sit, it happened by [...]

Puppy Brain

I’d like to you keep in mind for the duration of our puppy class that your puppy has ‘puppy brain’. This may seem obvious, but let’s talk about it for a moment. How many weeks has your puppy been on the planet? On average it’ll be 20 weeks or less.

Holy COW! When we were [...]

Welcome To Your Puppy Class

An open letter to my Puppy Class students at the Dog Training Club of Tampa..

Thank you for bringing your puppy to my puppy training class. I know that you’re here because you want a happy and successful relationship with your puppy. My goal is to give you everything you need to build a solid [...]

Training Rules

For many of us, learning about dogs isn’t boring or difficult. It comes easy because we’re fascinated by our best friends and competition companions and also want to understand them better. And for many of us, they are a complete mystery – a bit like aliens living among us.

Those Aliens Among Us

Here in the [...]

Dog Toys Are For Training

“What’s the big deal about dog training? I should be able to tell the dog what to do and he’s supposed to do it.” How many people feel that way? If you have a quick answer for this remark, let me know because I could use one.

The best response would be a reasoned explanation about [...]