by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 11 Mar, 2018 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
You need to use management to tackle problem behaviours. This is something that comes up often in both my behaviour work and tackling it is vital for successful behaviour change. Whether training your dog to come back when called or to not freak out when walking past...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 5 Mar, 2018 | Training & Behaviour, Blog, Classes, Workshops & Events, Life With Dogs
Consequences drive behaviour It’s a short little sentence but packed with meaning. We think about behaviour backwards generally. It’s easy to think that your made your dog sit by telling him to sit. You didn’t though. I think about behaviour as...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 26 Feb, 2018 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
This last week proper sucked. I was in a bad mood for most of it, quick to snap at people, quick to pass judgement on others, I was an angry, stompy arse. Why? Well today is the 2 year anniversary of the death of Khanu my very first “dog of my own”. I had...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 18 Feb, 2018 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
So it was Valentine’s Day earlier this week – you might have noticed by the abundance of chocolate in the shops and cheesy movies on TV, maybe you even got a card? It seems a little odd to me that we only spend one day out of the year telling our most...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 12 Feb, 2018 | Blog, Husbandry, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
I made adjustments to my training plan for nail clipping I started out with the fist pump behaviour that Flint already knew – that worked fine, Flint was willing to give me his paw, however it was a high energy behaviour. For nail clipping I really want Flint to be...
by Kelly Cordell-Morris | 5 Feb, 2018 | Blog, Life With Dogs, Training & Behaviour
Let’s get something clear, while I use the word I actually don’t like calling them treats. I just haven’t come up with a better word for using a small morsel of food to reinforce a behaviour a dog performs – if you have an idea for one, let me...