The Freedom Trap: How too much freedom equals too much stress.

Posted in: Dog Behavior, Dog Training- Sep 30, 2014 No Comments

  By Maggi Forootan One of the most important components of my system of dog training is the injection of a fairly heavy dose of structure into the lives of dogs and their humans who are struggling. Structure for a dog is a lot like the kind of structure you would provide for a small […]

Stay! Just a little bit longer. How adding duration to the Place and Down commands help stressed dogs.

Posted in: Dog Behavior, Dog Training- Sep 21, 2014 No Comments

By Maggi Forootan Adding duration to the Place and Down commands is one of the most important components of my system of dog training. This by far is where I see the most dramatic shifts in dog behavior. The tricky part in understanding this is that it doesn’t look like anything ground breaking is going […]