You’ve read 3 articles learning about distraction, duration, and distance separately. Let’s see how they work together If you’ve read the previous articles in this series, you now understand what distraction does to learning, why duration is harder than it looks, and how distance changes the picture. And if you’ve been training with that framework,…
Distance is the last of the three Ds – and the most emotionally loaded. The moment you step back from your dog, something activates in their nervous system that has nothing to do with the commands you’ve trained. The dog who’s perfect until you move You’ve been working on stay. It’s solid. Your dog holds…
A 30-second stay in a position isn’t just a longer 3-second stay. Something different is happening in your dog’s brain and understanding it changes how you’ll train duration. A quick note on the word “stay”: most professional trainers don’t teach stay as a separate command. If a dog sits, the expectation is that they hold…
He is not a stubborn dog. There’s a really good explanation for it and once you get it, a lot of things will start to make sense. “My dog ignores me” You’ve spent weeks on sit. Or stay. At home, your dog is practically a genius – calm, focused, nailing it every time. You’re quietly…
