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Bright Barks Training offers in-person and virtual dog training in Northampton County, PA and surrounding counties.
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11/10/2026

I mentioned before that UhOh struggled with stairs. I posted a clip from our first session working on this, but after thinking things through, making some modifications to my plans, and trying again, here is a complete video of the progress we made in just 4 total sessions.

At the end of session 4 you can see that I cue her “all done”, I toss a handful of cookies to her, and then I collect my bowls. And guess what? She chose to follow me down all on her own, despite the fact that we had only worked on 6-8 steps during our session! And then I got a little greedy, but we played some games downstairs, went back up and she came down 2 more times all on her own!

Very proud of this big girl!

11/03/2026

UhOh has some real challenges when it comes to confidence and independence. She relies heavily on Astraea to give her courage, even for simple things like going down stairs. Or at least this particular set of stairs. She actually goes up and down stairs in other places just fine. And these stairs she will go up and down freely as long as at least one other dog is with her. But she will not go down them alone.

So we started on the landing with a modified Vito’s game to get her moving back and forth. This is a game she’s played before in other places so she was already familiar with the bowls. Then I started moving down the stairs.

The real challenge is that we don’t both fit on the stairs and she’s very sensitive to body pressure so I had to place the bowls in a way that I could keep her moving between them while being able to toss treats roughly where she expected them. (I mostly missed.)

You can see toward the end of session 2, she gets worried and sits down. That was when I stood up. I had been sitting about 4 steps down with one bowl, keeping the other bowl at the top. When I stood, she backed away. When I sat back down, she took a moment to think about it, but ultimately made the choice to continue the game, and ended up coming all the way down to the 4th step. After that we had a party and called it a day.

Tomorrow we will start with one or two steps and see if we can grow this further.

10/27/2026

Just a handsome man doing some reactivity work in the park today. So proud of all his progress! 🐩💕

10/25/2026

UhOh is extremely head shy, so having her choose to put her harness on is something we’ve been working on. First by shaping her to put her nose in the hole and working all the way up to getting her ears through today.

10/24/2026

Just a test run of recalling away from his favorite kid and toy before we take it outside for more speed. Keep building that thoughtfulness in arousal.

10/23/2026

One of my favorite dog people, Hannah Branigan, talks about making our training different but not harder, broader not deeper. One of the ways we do this is by making things just a little bit weirder for our dogs when we practice behaviors. Can your dog do a sit with another dog right beside them? Can they down if you’re laying on the floor instead of standing in front of them? What if you have your back turned? Or if you’re patting your head and rubbing your belly? Where does the behavior break down and how can we reinforce it?

10/22/2026

Increasing the complexity until your dog can recall away from someone feeding them treats. It’s a challenge built in lots of little steps, but Cooper loves the game.

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Monroe Street
Danielsville, PA
18038

Telephone

+14234432755

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http://Www.brightbarkstraining.com/

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