Episodes

Puppies are the focus of today, and a number of questions about different aspects of puppy training comes up from a few questions via Instagram. There is a reason we don’t worry about time, how old our dogs are, where other people’s dogs are at in their training, or comparing our dogs to any one […]

Perfecting the delivery is something that we work on from the very start with our retrievers. We talk a lot about hold conditioning, but that does not come into play until the dog is mature. What we haven’t done a good enough job of doing is stressing and showing you the things we do from […]

Coax and correct; a phrase Jeremy recently picked up. We often find that these mentalities and overall strategies we talk about with dog training applies to much more in our lives than just dog training. On this episode, Jeremy describes a recent experience he has had by joining blacksmithing class, how it connected to training […]

Hold conditioning questions have been coming in hot and heavy lately. On episode #58 of the pawdcast we are tackling these questions, and addressing some common mistakes we see with people struggling to get through hold conditioning. One of these mistakes is that people are continuing to retrieve with their dog while being in the […]

Organizing dog training is an essential part of how we approach our training. We need to compartmentalize, and separate different parts of our training. This organization of our thoughts, ideas, and things that come up as we go through our training will help us to become a better handler. We recently received a question that […]