Both Maisy and I received great news this week! ( Finally. Last month was hard.) Maisy's Health Maisy on her 7th birthday earlier ...

On Monday, September 9 th , two big things happened in my life. First, and most significantly, Maisy was admitted to the ICU at the Unive...

There are many, many ways to modify a problem behavior. So how is a dog trainer to choose one? The Certification Council for Professional D...

I'm in the home stretch for the exam. I take the exam on Monday, so with less than a week to go and three sections left to review, well....

In her book Coaching People to Train Their Dogs, Terry Ryan identifies a number of reasons a dog might behave in a certain way. Let'...

Answer: We don't really know. But we have lots of theories. Let's start with what exactly domestication is . Wild animals c...

5 months old and venturing off on her own. I'm currently starting the two weeks I've set aside to study ethology, and I decided ...

Last weekend, I read Excelerated Learning by Pam Reid. As a side note, this was the first book I ever read on dog training, and it took me ...

I’m in the middle of the two week period of time I’ve set aside to study for the learning theory part of the exam. I actually haven’t done m...

The section on instruction skills counts for 32% of the exam. The CCPDT’s study objectives indicate that there are three main components to...

In less than seven weeks, the fall testing period for the CPDT-KA exam starts. I have signed up to take the exam, and based on feedback from...

What does 2012 hold in store for Maisy and I? Greatness, I’m sure of it! I have no idea what form that greatness will take, but I'm hopi...