Curbing Excessive Barking
One of the most frustrating and difficult behaviors to control is excessive barking. Our K9 companions can develop many behaviors that...
How to Establish Meaningful Communication (Part II)
I remember in my younger days playing a game with my friends called Hot and Cold. The game was simple, I would close my eyes and the...
How to Establish Meaningful Communication (Part 1)
To quote a famous movie line from Cool Hand Luke, “What we have here is failure to communicate”. As a professional dog trainer people...
Training Tips with Jeff Stoneman – Leave It
Teaching your dog the command to “leave it” on cue can be very useful. For instance, if you’re out for a walk and your dog smells...
Training Tips with Jeff - Leash Pulling
One of the most common requests I receive as a dog trainer is “how to stop my dog from pulling on a leash”. This is the simplest but yet...
Risk Factors for Canine Bloat
Canine bloat, or gastric dilatation-volvulus (GDV), is the number-one cause of death for several large and giant breeds. If this painful...
Preparing your pup for training
As a professional dog trainer, I have had the privilege to work with many dogs over the past 30 plus years. It is my opinion that...
Dogs and COVID-19
Can dogs contract COVID-19? Dogs can contract certain types of coronaviruses, such as the canine respiratory coronavirus, but this...
Training tips with Jeff - Down
In this segment of training tips I will offer helpful hints for teaching the down command. This command is a very useful tool in advance...
Training Tips with Jeff - Place
Seats and treats, it’s a great learning tool with many valuable uses. I guess you’re wondering what I’m talking about when I say seats...