Leash Foundations

*This was written many years ago when the school was at a facility with cement floors that we could use sidewalk chalk on.  Nowadays, our high tech waterproof floors don’t work with chalk so we ask our students stand perfectly still and reward their dog for paws...

Walk with me!

I’m not here to re-invent the wheel.  People have been successfully teaching their doggy students how to walk with their dogs for decades before I was born.  I love all the techniques. Clicker, shaping, luring…and so many more. The things, however, that I hear myself...