Share
Explore
Learn How To Design A Successful Dog Training Plan
Learn to Train
Troubleshooting
If you and your dog don’t seem to be making progress on a given behavior, consider these troubleshooting suggestions. Spoiler alert: it's usually us, not the dog 😁
Help! My dog...
seems uninterested in training
More exciting treats
Set your dog up for success
Shorten your sessions
More enthusiasm
is interested for a while but then loses interest
Shorten your sessions
More enthusiasm
Set your dog up for success
is too excited by the treats to focus
Less exciting treats
Reward for calm
keeps rapidly offering different behaviors instead of listening
Reward for calm
Go slow; take baby steps
yawns a lot / turns their head / scratches themselves / sniffs the ground during training
Go slow; take baby steps
Shorten your sessions
Set your dog up for success
seems to have forgotten the behavior I taught them
Go slow; take baby steps
Add some variety
just can’t seem to figure out what I want them to do
Get Creative
Add some variety
Go slow; take baby steps
Want to print your doc?
This is not the way.
This is not the way.
Try clicking the ⋯ next to your doc name or using a keyboard shortcut (
CtrlP
) instead.