by Mariah Hinds, CPDT-KA | May 28, 2023 | Charlotte Dog Training
When should you change up your training when you are trying to teach your dog a behavior? In order to get true reliability with a behavior, we want the dog to learn that the behavior that we cued is the same regardless of environment, distractions, location in...
by Mariah Hinds, CPDT-KA | May 28, 2023 | Charlotte Dog Training
Building reliability with our dogs is a process. Just like going to the gym once, doesn’t build immediate muscles, building reliability with our dogs skills takes practice. This week, I worked on adding a bit of distractions to our signals with a dancing toy. It...
by Mariah Hinds, CPDT-KA | May 23, 2023 | Charlotte Dog Training
Confidence is key when it comes to competition dog sports. We want to protect and grow our dog’s confidence throughout the training and competing process. We can build our dog’s confidence by listening to our dog when they say that they are concerned about...
by Mariah Hinds, CPDT-KA | Apr 23, 2021 | Charlotte Dog Training
With the current Stay at Home order, more people are spending more time home or working from home. Some pets think that this should mean hours of petting or throwing the toy or hours of playing each day and that could mean poorly timed dog interruptions. Like this...
by Mariah Hinds, CPDT-KA | Jan 19, 2019 | Charlotte Dog Training
Fun Games to play with your dog, DIY food puzzles, play with your dog, fun with your dog, playing with dogs Is your dog bored? You do not need to take hours out of your day to provide adequate amounts of mental stimulation. If you begin to provide more mental...
by Mariah Hinds, CPDT-KA | Jan 4, 2019 | Charlotte Dog Training
Dog Training Cues Is your dog reliable and fluent with their verbal cues? Saying the verbal cue while you do a hand signal is an easy pattern to fall into and for lots of dogs it delays the dog being able to do the verbal cue without the hand signal. Try this. Try to...
