Can My Puppy Train Me to Be a Better Trainer?

Meet Arya. She joined our household about two weeks ago, when she was eight weeks old. She came to me with the best foundation imaginable, but she is a baby, and she is a Cattle Dog. So I have a lot of work to do. Learning from the Past When I got…

Consent in the Year of the Dog

I was on vacation for the first week of 2018, so naturally I binged on dog training podcasts. One that made more of an impression on me than I thought at the time was one of Hannah Brannigan’s “Drinking from the Toilet” podcasts, “Five Key Concepts for 2018.” This was…