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Dynamic Balance

January 20, 2015 by Deborah Charlap

How are those New Year resolutions going so far? You’ve set up your goals, you’ve started a new routine.  If you’re anything like me, you’ve also slipped and swerved and gotten back on track again… probably more than once.

Adjustment is the real key here, isn’t it? Not staying perfectly in line every moment, but correcting and balancing.  It’s about deciding where to aim your compass and making the changes necessary to go where you want to go.Continue Reading

Emotion > Behavior

October 7, 2014 by Deborah Charlap

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We’re led to believe — by some trainers, by popular media, often by our own common sense — that training is about sitting on command and jumping through hoops (literally and metaphorically) for a reward.  And what follows is the assumption that the sitting or the jumping are the point.  But they’re not.  What’s important is how your dog feels when you ask him to do something.  The point is how your dog responds in the training moment — and his response comes directly from his emotions.Continue Reading

The Training Moment

October 6, 2014 by Deborah Charlap

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Dog training happens moment by moment.  The desire to rehearse is so tempting… You want to practice your technique before using it with your dog — but training changes so quickly.  Your dog has different needs from one moment to the next.  And we as trainers have to adapt to meet the dog where he is in that particular moment.Continue Reading

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