by lkaim | Oct 19, 2021 | Dog Behavior Training, Dog Trainers, Dogs, littermate syndrome, resource guarding
What Is ‘Littermate Syndrome’? Every trainer encounters “littermate syndrome” in dogs from the same household more than once in their career. Most of the time owners complain that the dogs no longer ‘get along’, or are starting to...
by lkaim | Sep 4, 2019 | Maryland Dog Training
My Dog Is Driving Me Crazy! Drive. It’s a hot-button, poorly understood and frequently misused word in dog training. Dog owners want their dogs to stop driving them crazy. Dog trainers talk about building drive, channeling drive, switching drive, engaging drive,...
by lkaim | May 26, 2019 | Dog Trainers, Dog Training Tools, Electronic Dog Training Collars, Maryland Dog Training
I have to say, I am almost embarrased to admit that I train dogs. What used to bring me great pride and incredible fulfillment has become a hotly devisive, contentious, provocative topic. Between the Trainer Wars with various camps extolling the virtue of a particular...
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 | Feb 1, 2013 | Dogs, Maryland Dog Training
The winter is finally upon us. A little manic depressive behavior for all that, sub zero temperatures for over a week to days in the 60s and 70s. The dogs are struggling with the changes and so are the humans. It has made our training endeavors…interesting....
