Dog Trainer Jeff Stallings
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Recent Posts
- The Yes After No: Building and Using a Positive Interrupter
- Treats are your dog’s paycheck, not a bribe
- Dog Training During COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place
- How socialization works: Dogs (and only dogs) can truly bond to multiple species
- Helping your fearful puppy become a more confident dog
- My article in Bark Magazine about how often to reward your dog during training
- Locally sourced: Get to know your puppy or dog before adopting
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Why your dog must feel SAFE
- Realistic expectations: The semantics of “fixing” your dog
- Train your wee, little dog as if he were Cujo!
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Dog stories and information
Treats are your dog’s paycheck, not a bribe
The Bay Area’s Michael Pollan is one of my favorite non-fiction authors. His books about the history and culture of food production and consumption are compelling and wide-ranging, and one thought from his 2007 “In Defense of Food” gained notoriety for … Continue reading →
Dog Training During COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place
As the planet’s humans deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, our dogs can be a big part of helping us get through social distancing, self-quarantine and isolation. Talk about emotional support! The CDC does not believe that humans can contract COVID-19 from domestic … Continue reading →
How socialization works: Dogs (and only dogs) can truly bond to multiple species
By Jeff Stallings My favorite behavior book of the past year or so is John Bradshaw’s “Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet”. I recommend this book to anyone … Continue reading →
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Helping your fearful puppy become a more confident dog
My jumping off point for this post is a commercial for the California Academy of Sciences in which my dog Otis was recently cast, and my assertion is that it takes time (months and years) for any puppy, but especially … Continue reading →
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My article in Bark Magazine about how often to reward your dog during training
I am thrilled to have my third article published in Bark Magazine, an excellent quarterly for all dog owners. My article in the January 2019 issue is titled “Reinforcement Techniques in Dog Training”. It’s about how using FEWER treats can help … Continue reading →
Why you should take your urban puppy to socials after just one set of shots
By Jeff Stallings, CPDT-KA (Note from March 31: Bark Magazine just published this article in the Spring 2015 issues of their awesome magazine. Click here to view it on their site.) A few months back I attended a “Dangerous Dog … Continue reading →
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Tagged dog behavior, parov, parvovirus, puppy socialization, puppy socials
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Littermate Syndrome: The risky downside to raising sibling puppies
[Please note that an update of this article was published in the Winter 2014 issue of Bark Magazine.] By Jeff Stallings, CPDT-KA Upon reading Patricia Leslie’s email, I knew I’d be replying with disappointing news. “We were planning to adopt … Continue reading →
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My article in the July issue of Bay Woof: Your Dog Needs a Job
Most evenings as we settle down to read or watch TV, Jim or I give Otis something to chew. She has many favorites from what I call the “carnage aisle” of the pet store, such as beef kneecaps, bully sticks, … Continue reading →
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Nature vs. Nurture: Dog breeds, temperament and training
By Jeff Stallings Recently, an exasperated dog owner contacted me about her out-of-control, “aggressive” Labrador retriever. She was trying to understand why her 2-year-old dog actively challenges other dogs, men and children with growls, snaps and threatening postures. During our … Continue reading →
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Clicker Training: Better, Faster, More
By Jeff Stallings My favorite dog training story of recent vintage concerns three shelter dogs being taught to drive a car. That’s right, the New Zealand SPCA undertook canine drivers ed to demonstrate that rescue dogs are smart, trainable and … Continue reading →
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Jeff Stallings, CPDT-KA 