Cal has been exhibiting aggression toward family members who approach when he has an item of value. Sometimes those items are dangerous and the family wants to take it away to protect him, but they can't without growling and snapping, and sometimes lunging and biting. This is the 3rd lesson. Cal has developed an association with people approaching or reaching in and that item being taken away, so he has learned that if he exhibits aggression they back off. All I'm doing is showing Cal that my approaching him is beneficial. I'm not there to take things away, I'm there to add treats, but even if I do take the object he'll get it right back. Cal will begin to asociate my approach with the appea
Featured story, Bay Woof August 2016. http://baywoof.com/featured-article/barn-hunt-builds-bonds/ The first time I heard about Barn Hunt, I knew my dog, Mark, would be a natural. A fellow trainer had told me how her 16-year-old gets as spry as a puppy when he’s in the ring and still brings home first-place ribbons. Mark loves to hunt. Hundreds of strangers have pictures of him from over the years standing still as a statue patiently waiting at the mouth of a gopher hole. We yell, “SQUIRRELS!” to rev him up and send him sprinting. Marcus Furelius Chillimus Maximus has always been, as his full name suggests, chill to the max, and the revered “s” word is one of the only things that gets him mov
