How many parents use their parenting skills to raise dogs? Trish King conducts privates on a regular basis, many of them with successful parents. As a result her book “Parenting Your Dog” published by TFH Publications focuses just on that. It seems logical that people could use their good parenting skills to raise their dogs, including setting limits and using natural consequences for actions. Trish will give us some great tips in using the skills that we are already good at!

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Owning a deaf dog may not be as difficult as one thinks. As humans, we rely heavily on sound, but the deaf dog can force you to be more creative in your methods and more conservative with your communication. Most inexperienced handlers talk and use sound way too much as part of the training process. As a result, dogs become overloaded with stimuli and begin to tune out. They are quickly labeled distracted and inattentive. This interview will explore how training the deaf dog will help you focus on non-verbal communication skills and teach you to "edit" what you "say" so that your meaning is clear to deaf and hearing dogs alike.

More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Can You Hear Me Now? Training a Deaf Dog - with Pia Silvani on PetLifeRadio.com

In this episode, you get three short training sessions where you'll see hand blocking with a young pup who has never seen it before (it takes under two minutes), rewarding a pup's interest, a pulsing on lead situation and a how Sarah handle's an "oops" moment (everyone has them) and then you get an interview with Shirley Minatelli about life with her Mobility Assistance dog, Xia. Enjoy!

More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Hand Blocking, Creating Success and Mobility Assistance Dogs! - with Sarah Wilson on PetLifeRadio.com

"Mother May I" is a game out of Sarah's book My Smart Puppy (written with her partner and husband, Brian Kilcommons) with the goal of teaching your dog to look to you whenever something tempting (or concerning) comes into view. Each piece of this game is taught separately but you can see the end result in the two video clips of Sarah working her rescue dog, Pip. This episode also includes a fun and creative trick that Shirley Minatelli taught her service dog, Xia. What a tidy pair these two are!

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See the Simple Sit, learn what part a slack lead plays in the guided down, hear how to turn that head turn into a consistent Come!, find out Sarah's suggestions for a listener's question and, want to know how Sarah answers a bystanders friendly suggestion to just put the puppy Sarah's working in the back of their car? Tune in!

More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - Simple Sit, Guided Down, Beginning of Come and More!- with Sarah Wilson on PetLifeRadio.com

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