Training Your Performance Dog

Motivation in Training
By Carolyn Fuhrer According to the dictionary, motivation is defined as an inducement or incentive to act or perform a behavior. When we ask our dogs to work and...
Motivation in Training
By Carolyn Fuhrer According to the dictionary, motivation is defined as an inducement or incentive to act or perform a behavior. When we ask our dogs to work and...

How Good a Trainer Are You?
By Carolyn Fuhrer Sometimes it is good to take a step back and look at our role in the training process. It is important to remember that when you...
How Good a Trainer Are You?
By Carolyn Fuhrer Sometimes it is good to take a step back and look at our role in the training process. It is important to remember that when you...

Obedience: The Foundation of All We Do with Our...
By Carolyn Fuhrer AKC defines its obedience program as trials set up to demonstrate the dog’s ability to follow specified routines in the obedience ring to emphasize the usefulness...
Obedience: The Foundation of All We Do with Our...
By Carolyn Fuhrer AKC defines its obedience program as trials set up to demonstrate the dog’s ability to follow specified routines in the obedience ring to emphasize the usefulness...

Building Confidence and Desire
By Carolyn Fuhrer Successful tracking comes from the dog wanting to follow the scent you have indicated to them. In this case, the scent of the “start article.” You must...
Building Confidence and Desire
By Carolyn Fuhrer Successful tracking comes from the dog wanting to follow the scent you have indicated to them. In this case, the scent of the “start article.” You must...

Reactive or Aggressive - What’s in a Name?
By Carolyn Fuhrer With more dogs being adopted and more dog events being offered, we need to look at our responsibility to our dog and to other dogs that...
Reactive or Aggressive - What’s in a Name?
By Carolyn Fuhrer With more dogs being adopted and more dog events being offered, we need to look at our responsibility to our dog and to other dogs that...

Agility – Routines Build Confidence
Most of us who compete have very good dogs in class, at home, or wherever we go to play with them. Why then is it sometimes different when we...
Agility – Routines Build Confidence
Most of us who compete have very good dogs in class, at home, or wherever we go to play with them. Why then is it sometimes different when we...