Pedestal Circuit for Confidence, Rear End Awareness
This is what we call a pedestal circuit here at Pawsitive Vybe and we use it for rear end awareness. In the video, Ernie &…
Category: Dog Training
Dog training lessons, articles, and theory by Ron Watson of Pawsitive Vybe.
PVybe Disc Dog and Dog Sport Camp – Pedestals FTW
A recent Pawsitive Vybe Dog Sport Training Camp in Florida used Pedestal training to run 84 15 minute dog training sessions per day while delivering t…
Fixing a Dog Who Can’t Catch – Part 2
this is the second installment in this series. Check out part 1. continued from part 1 – yes, this is the same video but you…
Fixing a Dog Who Can’t Catch – Part 1 of 2
sometimes dogs learn the funniest things. like Viper here… he thinks the object of the game is to pick up the disc off the ground.…
Pulling the Strings Into a Common Thread
So far in this series I’ve used a metaphor to explain the complex and interrelated nature of behaviors and behavior chains – behavioral problems are…
10 Strings to Pull to Manage Drive and Untie Behavioral Knots – Pt 2
The last two installments of this series outlined the behavioral strings and knots metaphor and examined 5 ‘strings’ of behavior and their relationship to behavioral…
10 Strings to Pull to Manage Drive and Untie Behavioral Knots – Pt 1
Yesterday’s piece was about how solving behavioral problems is kind of like untangling knots. Today I’m going to talk about the strings that make up…
Pulling Strings and Untying Behavioral Knots with Bitework
solving problems with bitework is like untying a knot. work on one strand or maybe a couple at a time and tug, loosen, and manipulate…
Contextual Understanding is Like Conversational Spanish
Learning a foreign language from a conversational angle is all the rage these days. Instead of focusing on grammar, syntax, and vocabulary, the very concepts…
Go Do Dog Stuff: Seven Simple Ideas for Effective Dismissal
What Is Dismissal? Dismissal is the opposite of Attention. Practically speaking, it means that the handler is not available at this time. It does not…
Pawsitive Vybe S2E2 – Right on Target!
Hey! you see the Home menu up there on the top left? Go Mouse over it and tell me what color it is… Hey! =…
Pawsitive Vybe S2E1 – Got Attention?
S2E1 of Pawsitive Vybe, the dog training & lifestyle webseries. This episode focuses on unsolicited eye contact, aka: Attention, and Dismissal.
Performance vs Understanding – Human Clicker Game
This is a few minutes of a human clicker game we played at a recent Discdog B&B. The idea here is to teach a person to perform a skill using a clicker…
Performance vs Understanding – Context vs Concept
Performance can be based upon conceptual or contextual understanding. How does a handler communicate conceptual understanding to the dog and avoid per…
Performance is not Understanding
More lessons in this series: Human Clicker Game Context vs Concept Performance is not understanding. Just because a dog has done or is doing a behavior…
Teach Your Dog a Hoop
Abby Cline of PVybe Fargo teaches a hoop to a client in her Canine Freestyle Class using cookies and reward placement.
Shaping the Spot Behavior with Dismissal
DOC is our Environmental Management Protocol. It is designed to help dog trainers learn to passively handle their dogs through shaping and reward and …
Four Qualities of Good Dog Trainers
I ran across this great article on Clickertraining.com. This is how it's done. It's a long article written by Clint Matthews about overcoming an early…
Metaphor and Understanding in Dog Training
In our business, teaching people to do cool things with their dogs, we rely on metaphor all the time to communicate complex ideas. A metaphor can be t…
Manufacturing the Approach
The concepts of On and Off can be taught quite quickly by marking the off and tossing a cookie. The dog leaves the Spot to go grab the cookie and then…