Skills drills in dog training is practicing basic obedience with various levels of distractions and incorporating distance and duration. For example, training a dog to sit, down and stay while walking away a certain distance and then calling the dog to come and sit and down again. Perhaps the dog...
Beyond Dogs
This has some cool videos of a trained cat. I think anything with a brain stem can be motivated (usually with food ) to learn new behaviors. Our companion animals are often better at training us than we are at training them. The video cat, Annie, is actually quite sophisticated....
Structure – Garden Style
Structure can be literal and metaphorical. Something made out of parts -- like a crate or a teepee.Structure can refer to the day to day routine. If I build my teepee well enough and take proper care of the structure, within a few weeks it should start becoming something more...