Lift Your Leg - the art of training a dog

Having feel and timing comes at a cost, and a lot of talented trainers burn out long before they should. We discuss survival tips for to keep the good trainers going.

We discuss ideas on how to deal with fireworks, and minimize and prevent damage to your dogs.

I got an email from the BC SPCA suggesting that muzzles are really a leash, and all dogs should be wearing one as a preventative. Jill and I discuss this, deeply, over wine.

It's been a full moon kind of week, where very little went right. While I could have pretended on short instagram videos, I didn't, and you get a full podcast on my weekly disasters. Everyone fails, sometimes. If you haven't, you haven't put yourself out there enough, or worked with enough dogs.

Our most challenging topic to date, which needs to be revisited. Feel. This might be the most misunderstood and underappreciate skill in training dogs today. We work through trying to define this abstract concept.