Why the Bag Matters Every dog trainer carries a bag. Inside, you’ll find the force-free dog training tools they reach for during a session, and those tools tell you more about their philosophy than almost anything else they could say. We get asked a lot of...
I was driving through a client’s neighborhood last week when I saw something that upset me so much that I slowed my car to watch. A dog walker was moving down the sidewalk with three dogs in tow. Two of them were trotting along, heads down, just trying to keep...
At Dances With Dogs, every decision we make comes back to one question: what does this feel like for the dog? Sometimes that question comes up with a curious new client, sometimes with a skeptic who has heard that “you need to be the alpha” or that...
Trust Is the Foundation of Everything We Do for Our Dogs When you bring a pet care professional into your dog’s life, whether for training, walking, or enrichment, you’re placing a significant amount of trust in that person. You’re trusting them with: Your dog’s...
