Are training sessions with your dog a struggle that leaves you both frustrated? Eric Brad explores ways your dog can become a success in training — and have a great deal of fun in the process.
Training a Dog: It’s as Easy as 1-2-3!
Eric Brad begins this year with the basics of clicker training and shows you how to set your dog up to succeed and have fun with training.
A Million Ways to Love a Dog
What Eric Brad has learned about dogs through behaviour training has fundamentally changed the way he sees them as beings — and it’s changed his life in so many wonderful ways.
Four Ideas for a Happier Life With Your Dog
The latest research and information on dogs and behaviour means you can work smarter instead of working harder to understand and enjoy your dog more.
Adventures in Puppyhood: Teaching Rizzo Basic Life Lessons
Thanks to clicker training, you can build a relationship with your dog based on positive cooperation rather than using commands to force the dog to obey. Eric Brad shows how clicker training has benefitted his relationship with his new puppy, Rizzo.
No Fighting, No Biting – Dogs Don’t Always Get Along
It’s a fact of life that not everyone gets along with everyone else. Humans measure our own civility by our ability to coexist, using what we call “manners.” We shouldn’t be surprised that our dogs have a similar code of conduct that they adhere to when interacting with other dogs. But do we really understand or even recognize dog manners when we see them?
Dogs and Emotions: Do You Feel Like I Feel?
If we truly want to understand our dogs for what they are, we have to take off the “rose colored glasses” of conventional wisdom about dogs. If we want to understand our dogs’ emotions, we have to see them for what they are and not what we wish they were.
Selling Snake Oil: Stopping Behaviour Doesn’t Make a “Good Dog”
We humans have been trained that the best way to train our dogs is through the use of coercion — and punishment and rewards. But Eric Brad has learned through his studies of behavioral science that just because something works doesn’t mean it’s right or the only way. In this article, Eric takes a groundbreaking look at kinder, saner and logical ways to build good, respectful relationships with our dogs.
Go Fast, Have Fun, Don’t Trip! Teaching Dog Agility
As Eric Brad knows from teaching dog agility, good communication between handlers and dogs is everything. It’s not about forcing a dog to play the game, it’s about forming relationships that bring put the best in humans and dogs.
Bribery or a Paycheck: Why Do We Resist Training Our Dogs with Food?
Why do so many dog trainers and dog fanciers so strongly resist the use of food in working with their dogs? Eric Brad stands in stark contrast to these traditional trainers. He uses food as part of a program of reinforcement and science-based training — and his happy, championship-winning dogs are testament to his methods.