The Dog's Way Podcast: Dog Training For Real Life

In episode 59, Sean answers a listener’s email about the serious aggression issue they have with their dog.  Sean talks about two myths in dog behavior that often results in poor advice to owners of dog’s dealing with aggression issues.  Sean describes his opinion on euthanizing dogs and the very first discussion he might have [...] The post SESSION 59: Is a Dog’s Aggression your Fault? appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 58, Sean responds to a question from some listeners about how to teach your excited puppy the rules of playing fetch.  These exercises are designed to structure a puppy’s fetch game.  A quick note that this isn’t designed to teach fetching to a dog that has absolutely no inclination to fetch.  Also, you [...] The post SESSION 58: Fetch! – Teaching your puppy the rules appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 57, Sean answers a listeners question about how to get her puppy to stop playing roughly with her baby.  Sean gives you a game-plan for training your puppy to get along with baby better and he gives you 3 areas to focus your training on that will make puppy-baby interactions more agreeable. [...] The post Session 57: Train your Puppy to get along with Baby better appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 56, Sean responds to a question from some listeners about how he approaches aggression cases.  They had a bad experience with a trainer in their local area and want to know from Sean what sorts of things they should look for in a trainer that can help them solve some aggression issues with [...] The post SESSION 56: Aggression Cases: Sean’s approach appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 55, Sean interviews Ron Pace about his Diabetic Alert Service Dog Training.  Ron explains how he finds the right dogs to do this sort of work, as well as outlining his training process.  Ron has some great stories about how dramatic the benefits could be for diabetics when they have a diabetic alert [...] The post SESSION 55: Diabetic Alert Service Dog Training with Ron Pace appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 54, Sean interviews David Van Kirk of Dogwatch Hidden Fence Systems to answer some of the questions that have come in over the last few months about these types of systems.  Sean and David discuss the outdoor and indoor systems that this technology provides to create permanent boundaries for your dogs in and [...] The post SESSION 54: Hidden Fence Systems – Interview with David Van Kirk of Dogwatch Hidden Fence appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 53, Sean answers a question from a professional dog trainer.  She asks Sean about the differences in results that she gets when training a dog personally as opposed to the results that her clients get when training their dogs themselves.  Sean outlines the top three mistakes dog owners make in training their dogs [...] The post SESSION 53: AVOID THESE 3 DOG TRAINING MISTAKES appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 52, Sean answers a question from a listener who is thinking of adding a second dog to their family.  Sean covers three areas: 1) how to decide whether it’s a good idea to add a second dog 2) some items to think about in finding a good match with your current dog 3) [...] The post SESSION 52: Adding a Second Dog? – Tips and a game plan appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 51, I interview Megan Esherick, Program Director for Canine Partners for Life.  CPL is a service dog organization in Pennsylvania.  They provide highly competent service dogs to recipients to assist with physical limitations, mobility issues, various medical alert services as well as many other issues.  Megan and I discuss their breeding program, their puppy [...] The post SESSION 51: Service Dog Work – Interview with Canine Partners for Life appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 50, I give you the starting steps of training a deaf dog.  Also, I answer some questions in the update section from the U.K., Australia and Canada.  In answer to one of the listener’s questions I also give you a quick overview of what the online dog training video course covers. [...] The post SESSION 50: Deaf Dog Training 101 appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 49, I interview Heather Jo Cutting, K9 handler and operations leader from King County Search Dogs.  We talk about what breeds of dogs they look for, they’re training program and their mission parameters. In this session: What does it take to be a search and rescue K9? [...] The post SESSION 49: King County Search Dogs Interview appeared first on The Dog's Way.

Cesar Millan seems to be having a rough few weeks in the public relations department.  A woman was severely bitten by an aggressive dog that was once at his training facility, he aired a TV show in which a pig got attacked by a dog he was training, and thousands of people sign a petition to [...] The post SESSION 48: Cesar Millan, aggression and the pig – Sean’s commentary appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 47, '55pxagb4' I interviewed Dr. Jake Tedaldi DVM.  In our discussion, we cover the basics of puppy vaccinations as well as some of the controversy around how safe vaccines are or aren’t for your puppy.  Dr. Jake gives us his usual balanced, logical approach to thinking through some of the decisions about vaccinating [...] The post SESSION 47: Puppy Vaccines 101 with Dr. Jake Tedaldi appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 46, I respond to some of the disagreement emails and some genuine hate mail that was prompted by podcast 45.  I’m letting you behind the scenes in this podcast a little bit to illustrate a couple things that may help you guys.  Firstly, I wanted you guys to hear about this debate because, [...] The post SESSION 46: Responding to Disagreements and some Hate Mail appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 45, I answer a question from a listener about how to fix some backyard misbehavior.  One of the podcast listeners is having a challenge with her dog misbehaving in the backyard.  Her dog is apparently digging up some plants and chewing on parts of the deck.  I go through a step by step [...] The post SESSION 45: FIX BACKYARD MISBEHAVIOR appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 44, I give you a game plan to help your puppy learn to NOT chase your kids around the house or yard.  A listener from Australia sent in a question about their Lab puppy chasing, tackling and nipping at their three kids. In this session: Do you [...] The post SESSION 44: Prevent Your Puppy from Chasing Your Kids appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 43, I answer a question from a listener about how to prevent your puppy from “losing their mind” when you get to group obedience class.  One the podcast listeners sent me an email describing that their 5 month old puppy just can’t focus on them when they arrive at their puppy kindergarten class [...] The post SESSION 43: How to Focus Your Puppy Before Group Class appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 42, I follow up on homework from podcast 40.  If you recall that podcast, I gave you phase 1 & 2 of the homework so you can teach your dog to settle in their nervous system during feeding time.  In this episode I follow up on that homework with phase 3 & 4 [...] The post SESSION 42: IMPROVE YOUR FEEDING RITUAL FOR MULTIPLE DOGS appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 41, I give you a step by step exercise to teach your dog to accept handling and petting more neutrally.  I promised you this handling exercise in podcast 39 (our micro-first aid class with Lynn Russell).  These exercises, that I recommend you do prior to each meal, will make life easier with your [...] The post SESSION 41: Teach your dog to accept petting and handling more neutrally appeared first on The Dog's Way.

In episode 40, I give you a two phase training plan that will allow you to teach your dog to settle down a bit more during eating and comfortably allow you to interrupt their feeding. In this session: Does your dog get overly excited about meal time? Do you [...] The post SESSION 40: How to Settle your Dog More at Feeding Time appeared first on The Dog's Way.