Imagine that you have a condition that is jeopardizing your health, your relationships with those you love, possibly your very life. ...

Oh!  My heart is broken, another crushing blow to me and my geek tendencies… :) The recent hoo-has involving a celebrity TV dog trainer,...

Good morning!  It’s a beautiful, cold clear day in Mt. Shasta, and I’ve been thinking.  (I do that sometimes.)  Here’s my thought for the...

Imagine this—my favorite analogy:  we decide we’re going to take up ballet dancing and we go to the studio for our first lesson.   When...

In the first part of this blog, we ended with wondering where oh where do pet owners come up with a notion of “respect,” a word they...

Well, there really isn’t any nice way to say it.  The chances are extremely good that—oh, no, it’s true!  Your dog has no respect for you...

Imagine you are walking down the street, minding your own business and enjoying a leisurely stroll in peace and quiet.  Around the corner...

If you’re like a lot of people—and you’re reading this blog—you love animals.  Or at least, animals of your species of choice, be it...

In the first part of this blog topic, I talked about how stress can impact both our performance and that of our dogs—with an underlying...

I admit it: I am a Behavior Geek.  My idea of a wildly exciting night is curling up with my cats, my dog, a glass of warm milk and a DVD...

It’s dark in the back yard, nearing 10 o’clock, and all hell has broken loose.  During the day, the house next to mine is used as a...

Oh boy.  In the last part, I talked about the two flavors of Strategic Following:  Following because someone has greater expertise, and...

The second kind of Following, what I’m calling Strategic Following, is in many ways the most complex and nuanced.  I’m not blindly...

In Part 2, I asserted that if we really want to understand how Leading works, we might do better to look at it from the extremely...

In this part, I said I was going to explore the other kind of leading—the kind that we really do want to use to reach success with our...

Though I myself think that living in the Social Media/Information Age has its benefits, there are also some downsides.  For one thing,...

In this first part of this blog, I talked a little about animal trainers vs. strictly dog trainers.  Now I’m going to turn to the...

I’m joking, of course, but you might not know it if you don’t know me.  Those of you who do know me know that I’m kind of a geek—I like...

As the Behavior Program Coordinator at the Siskiyou Humane Society, it's been my privilege over the years to meet many very fine young...

Oh, it's so good to be back!  As many of you know, last summer a detached retina put me on somewhat limited training duty.  Four eye...