All About Training Dogs

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I help reactive dogs become calm & confident. 🐶 Calm your dog in 15 minutes a day with Barkaholics.
🐕 Online & In-home lessons
🎓 13+ years, multi certified
✔️ Free Reactive Dog Checklist 👇

Comment Shopping and I’ll send you what I recommend to my clients. Happy training!
07/09/2025

Comment Shopping and I’ll send you what I recommend to my clients.

Happy training!

She’s changed animal training forever. I was lucky enough to meet and talk to Karen Pryor in 2011 at the Clicker Expo. I...
01/08/2025

She’s changed animal training forever. I was lucky enough to meet and talk to Karen Pryor in 2011 at the Clicker Expo.

I was not a dog trainer at the time, just went to get some answers about my reactive Italian Greyhound.

Emma Parsons, who is amazing, did a talk on reactivity. She talked about how Karen Pryor helped her with her reactive dog, Lizzy Taylor.

Some of Karen’s advice was, “your dog is either getting better or worse.” In other words, behavior isn’t stagnant and small changes in the right direction are good.

Back then I didn’t know the difference between positive reinforcement and using an e-collar. I had enrolled in a dog training academy in Texas that used shock collars.

I wasn’t going to use the collar on my dog, but I didn’t know much about dog training. I thought there was only one method or one way to train a dog.

During the opening event, Karen delivered a message about using punishment and the culture of obedience. She shared a video that change my mind, and career.

She showed a video of positive reinforcement (marker training) on a rhinoceros 🦏. The trainer asked for a “sit” and the rhino did it. She used a whistle instead of a clicker.

I was sold after that. If this 5,000lb animal can be trained with positive reinforcement, then it can work for all dogs too. Training collars aren’t necessary.

I decided to enroll in the Karen Pryor Dog Training Academy later that year and graduated in August. I think it was the 2nd KPA class.

Karen was a true legacy and trailblazer. She changed the dog training world forever.

📷: clickertraining

Understanding your dog is the first step to getting him to listen and be well behaved. Fear, even in human, is not logic...
11/09/2023

Understanding your dog is the first step to getting him to listen and be well behaved.

Fear, even in human, is not logical.

One person might be afraid of heights and the other persons loves flying.

Another person loves public speaking and another would rather eat snails. ;)

Dog fears are the same. We (the humans) might know that a dog isn’t in danger and doesn’t need to be afraid, but unfortunately the dog doesn’t know that.

Dog fears start around 12-weeks old and they might not alway be obvious.

Fears start with a negative experience (not a life threatening one, although that can do it too).

For example, if your dog doesn’t feel good and he’s taken to the vet, where he’s removed from the safety of his human, flipped upside down on a table for an exray, is poked with a painful needle then he can develop a fear of the vet’s office.

Nothing scary, in our human mind, but your dog doesn’t know what will come next or what is going on. He doesn’t know the vet’s intention (which are to help him not scare him).

All he knows is that he’s removed for the human he trusts and doesn’t feel good or comfortable with everything else.

Once a fear has been *conditioned then it has to be counter conditioned to change.

Food is one of the quickest and easiest ways to change that fear.

Good food (treats) have an internal effect on the dog’s brain.

Have you even seen a dog drool when you’re eating or you’ve given him warm piece of chicken.

If your dog “isn’t food motivated” use the tip above and tell me how it goes.

If you want to change a fearful, anxious, stressed or reactive dog then you need Classical Conditioning not obedience tr...
10/21/2023

If you want to change a fearful, anxious, stressed or reactive dog then you need Classical Conditioning not obedience training.

There’s a big difference, don’t get them confused.

Do you remember learning about Pavlov’s dogs?

I love that I get to apply my Psychology Degree every day.

How to interpret aggressive behaviors to help your dog. The Naughty Dog Podcast, episode 78.Did you like my human exampl...
10/12/2023

How to interpret aggressive behaviors to help your dog. The Naughty Dog Podcast, episode 78.

Did you like my human examples? Did they make sense?

“I did that and it didn’t work.”Watching videos on the Gram or YT isn’t going give enough information to get your reacti...
06/06/2023

“I did that and it didn’t work.”

Watching videos on the Gram or YT isn’t going give enough information to get your reactive dog to be calm because you’re not getting the whole picture.

The other day during a consultation, I noticed about half a dozen things this nice lady was doing wrong with her reactive dog. She gives her dog a treat, has her sit before she opens the door, pulls up on the slip lead for sit, she avoids dogs when possible and she corrects her dog when needed. But her dog is becoming more anxious and reactive.

Here’s the problem, you don’t know the mistakes you’re making, that’s why it’s called a mistake. It will be very difficult to see change when you continue to makemistake. That’s the way it is with everything in life.

The first thing you need is to understand how dog learn, how dogs think and how dogs communicate. We go over this in every consultation first and in the Barkaholics Program and in TDA.

Imagine driving a car without knowing that you need to put gas in. You’ll be stuck on the side of the road, confused because the car stopped working.

You need to build confidence & trust by training in the house. You can’t just start with cc/ds, it will be an up hill battle.

You need to learn how to use a clicker & which food (not treats) works best for your dog. The clicker isn’t an attention getter - its purpose isn’t to get your dogs attention when he’s barking and lunging. If you try to use your vacuum without plugging it in, it won’t work. It’s not the vacuum, it’s that you’re using it wrong.

You need to start gradually. If you’re afraid of public speaking, you don’t start by giving a presentation in front of 500 people. You start by standing in front of the room without anyone. Then maybe you give a presentation to 3 people, then 10, then 50.

There is a recipe for training your dog. If you’re making mistakes, not following the recipe and moving to quickly then no tip, advice or treat is going to work.

🐶It’s not your dog, it the recipe you’re using (or not using).

If you’re ready for change, the Barkaholics Program will give you the recipe to follow step-by-step.

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Newport Beach, CA
92660

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 6pm

Telephone

(949) 607-8364

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