by lkaim | Aug 13, 2024 | Dog Behavior Training, Dog Training Anecdotes, Dog Training Tools, How to train a dog, Maryland Dog Training, Maryland Puppy Training, negative reinforcement, Positive reinforcement
Failure is always an option. Human history is peppered with the struggles of entire species to survive, including our own; where whole civilizations were exploited into extinction, and civilizations that couldn’t survive the changing landscape. A litany of self-help...
by lkaim | Dec 28, 2021 | Dangerous Dogs, Dog Behavior Training, Dog Training Anecdotes, How to train a dog, Maryland Dog Training, Maryland Puppy Training, Purebred Dogs
Groomers are Saints I pay homage to my roots and to all the groomers past and present that have endured the worst of the worst, and still kept their wits about them. This may come across as a bit like kicking a dead horse, if you will forgive the phrase. I am a person...
by lkaim | Jun 10, 2013 | Dogs, Maryland Dog Training, Maryland Puppy Training
What a trained dog starts to look like after only 5 weeks of work. Zwei is shown demonstrating the training skills he had learned in the first five weeks of a ten week program. He was just 13 months old. Up to the day this was filmed, Zwei’s exposure to this...
by lkaim | Nov 12, 2012 | Dogs, Maryland Dog Training, Maryland Puppy Training
One might ask what making coffee has to do with training dogs, but I thought it was an interesting segue since I am constantly harping on my training students to “use it or lose it”. A few 10 minute dog training sessions a day is pretty much all you need....
by lkaim | Sep 21, 2012 | Dogs, Maryland Puppy Training, Purebred Dogs, Socializing your new puppy
I know it’s been a while since I updated the Zwei file, but summertime is busy here at Lionheart K9 and we barely have time to eat, let alone write! Zwei is now a substantial and well grown young lad. At just over 7 months, he is getting ready to debut at the...
by lkaim | May 20, 2012 | Dangerous Dogs, Dog Laws, Dog Trainers, Dogs, Maryland Dog Training, Maryland Puppy Training, Socializing your new puppy
This week, The State Farm Insurance company released a report on the number of dog bite claims they had received in the year 2011. What I find interesting to note is that children, between the ages of 5 and 15 (predominantly male children) are 900 times more likely to...
