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The Other End of the Leash
April 16, 20194Comments

Fail More Often: The Single Concept that helped me overcome training setbacks

If you are regularly too busy to train your dog, you may need to start failing more often.

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General Training
April 15, 20195Comments

5 Simple Tricks to Ditch the Dog Odor in Your Home

I have dogs. Shocking, I know. In fact, I have MANY dogs. And my dogs live in my home. They lay on the furniture, they sleep in my bed, and

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General Training
January 18, 20199Comments

Hand Over the Cookie: 4 Reasons to STOP playing with your food

For those that know me, you’ve come to learn a few things about who I am… You know that I eat pie for breakfast… You know I’m a perpetual 5 year old… You

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General Training
January 11, 201920Comments

Pajama Trainers UNITE: Why you should be training your dog LESS

Every morning I crawl out of bed around 6 am. I walk to the living room and let the dogs out. We say our good mornings, and then I brew

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General Training
January 11, 201910Comments

Kids and Dogs: Are we REALLY setting the stage for success?

I’ve been seeing this meme floating around the Internet…And I’ll be honest, it’s driving me a bit batty…And I wasn’t going to write this (because I really try hard to

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General Training
January 2, 201918Comments

Shiny New Tricks: A simple life hack to build better dog training habits

I used to be a lazy trainer. Not lazy in that I skipped steps… Or jumped to less than ethical methods to reach my goal quickly. No, not lazy like that. I was

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General Training
December 13, 20187Comments

The Sky Isn’t Falling: Teaching bravery to a fearful dog

This is Tej… We lovingly call him “Bones”… ...or Tedgy… ...or “Chicken Little”... And he arrived at our house last week for a little bit of help to learn to be brave. You see, Bones

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General Training
December 11, 201812Comments

Getting Prepared: Simple tips to handling off leash dog encounters

Well, …it happened. I was walking my dog on the trails behind my house yesterday… You know, the trails where leash laws are in full effect… Where there are periodic signs that

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Dog trainer, Meagan Karnes walks Malinois while in sight of a reactive dog.
General Training
August 6, 201852Comments

Don’t Walk the Dog: Why walking your reactive dog might be making things worse

I remember when I got my first dog. I mean, I had dogs growing up, but Koby was MY first dog. I got him when I was in college, and

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