Meet Alice! She is a 9-month-old Border Collie mix puppy. Her owner enrolled her in our Puppy Day School program to work on her socialization skills around other dogs. Alice missed her critical socialization period while waiting to be adopted. Then, shortly after coming to her new home, she broke her leg and had to be kept quiet for [Read more...]

In our Day School program, we go through a lot of dog treats! During our busiest weeks, it is not uncommon for us to use 10 pounds or more. We’re always looking for the fastest and most cost-effective ways to prepare and store this much food in our training studio. When it comes to food rolls, we [Read more...]

It's no secret that we are big fans of The Honest Kitchen, the only human-grade pet food company in the USA. A few months ago, we found out about their new product in the works: Proper Toppers, gently dehydrated "superfood clusters" you can add to your dog's food. Or, better yet: you can give them as a treat! I [Read more...]

Over the last several weeks, I have written about shaping and luring here on Spring Forth Dog Blog. My next topic is capturing, which is a pretty simple, straightforward way to get behavior! Clicker training allows you to capture a behavior, like this terrier's adorable tilted head, so you can put it on cue [Read more...]

From time to time, we get an opportunity to test drive a new dog product. This time around, we were sent a bag of Solid Gold Tiny Tots, which are described by the manufacturer as a "lamb jerky" dog treat. The first thing I noticed after opening the bag of Tiny Tots (which contains 10oz [Read more...]

Last week I started off my series on "How to Get Behavior" with shaping. Now I'm going to explain a bit about luring and how to use a lure to teach behavior. The term luring refers to the use of a desired reward to coax the dog into achieving the desired behavior. The "desired reward" [Read more...]