Posts tagged dog tricks
The Secret Life of Movie Dogs: An Interview with Trainer Mathilde De Cagny - Pt 2

“Within two weeks, I know exactly what I have in my hand and what I can do and how much time I want to put in. So one for me is ideal. But sometimes, again, going on Hotel for Dogs, wanted to rescue dogs. And Friday the Jack Russell, which was my team of dogs, we found one that was six years old.”

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From Fun to Functional: How Teaching Dogs Tricks Builds Confidence

There's a lot of fun that you can have with trick training. If you take your dog somewhere and he's little uncomfortable, and you can start putting him through his little repertoire of tricks it does two things. It makes others receptive to your dog, which is a good thing, and it also gives your dog something to do that he's confident doing, because basically, there is no wrong response to a trick. You know, when you start trick training, you're teaching a dog to do something, and it's not like you're trying to take a problem behavior away. So it's a very confidence building thing to do.

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