07/28/2025
Do you have a hard time communicating with your dog?
Start with conditioning them to your own markers, so you can pin point the behaviors you like or dislike.
It's much easier to teach our dogs what's expected of them when we have words they know means the behavior they just did was good or bad.
So its best to condition them to their markers before putting them in situations where you might need to correct or reward a behavior.
One of the most common issues we find is people trying to teach their dog without a good foundation of communication. If they don't know what you mean when you try to correct or reward them, they will not be able to associate the behavior they just did with what you are saying. You'll basically just sound like the teach in charley brown to them.
