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Training Guide · 7 min read
Twelve Steps to Ending Your Dog's Treat Addiction
If your dog only listens when you are holding a treat, you do not have obedience, you have a negotiation. Here is how to fix it in twelve steps.
Training Guide · 6 min read
How to Stop a Dog Pulling on Leash
If every walk is a tug of war, the problem is not your dog's strength, it is the structure. Here is how to fix leash pulling for good.
Training Guide · 7 min read
Dog Separation Anxiety Solutions That Actually Work
The howling, the chewed door, the panic the moment you grab your keys. Separation anxiety is real, and it is fixable. Here is how.
Training Guide · 8 min read
Dog Aggression Training in Los Angeles, What Actually Works
An aggressive dog is almost never a hopeless dog. Here is what actually fixes lunging, snapping, and biting, and why the untrainable label is usually wrong.
Training Guide · 7 min read
Leash Reactivity in Dogs, Why It Happens and How to Fix It
If every walk ends with your dog barking and lunging at other dogs, you do not have a vicious dog, you have an overwhelmed one. Here is why it happens and how to fix it.
Training Guide · 7 min read
Board and Train in Los Angeles, Read This Before You Send Your Dog Away
A kennel can teach your dog to obey a trainer in a facility. It cannot teach your dog to obey you at home, which is the only place it counts.
Training Guide · 7 min read
Puppy Training in Los Angeles, The First Year Done Right
Everything your puppy learns, or fails to learn, before its first birthday sets the next decade. Here is the first year done right, starting at eight weeks.
Breed Guide · 7 min read
Pit Bull Training in Los Angeles
Some of the best dogs I have ever trained were pit bulls. Here is what the breed actually needs, and why a trained pit bull is the best argument against the label.
Breed Guide · 7 min read
Rottweiler and Doberman Training in Los Angeles
A Rottweiler or Doberman does not need a heavy hand. It needs a calm leader worth following, and here is how to become one.
Breed Guide · 7 min read
Goldendoodle and Doodle Training in Los Angeles
Everyone told you the doodle was the automatic easy family dog. Nobody mentioned the poodle brain that needs a job, or what happens when it does not get one.
Breed Guide · 7 min read
German Shepherd Training in Los Angeles
The smartest dog on the block is also the quickest to invent its own job. Here is how to give your shepherd a better one.
Online Training · 7 min read
Does Online Dog Training Work? An Honest Answer
Online dog training works when someone is actually coaching you, live, on your dog. It fails when it is a video library with no feedback. Here is the honest difference, from a trainer who does both in home and Zoom sessions every week.
New Adopter Guide · 8 min read
Your Newly Adopted Dog: What the First Month Should Look Like
NBC put Brett in front of new adopters nationwide for thirty seconds at a time. This is everything that did not fit: the quiet first weeks, the gentle start to training, and the difference between a dog that is adjusting and a dog that needs help.
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