So, you want to provide enrichment for your pet or your clients’ pets. Awesome! Welcome.  One of the questions we at Pet Harmony get asked frequently is, “How

I am asked regularly, “What are the first behaviors that we should train our animals? Does the order matter? How do we determine what should be trained first?”

One of my greatest passions is conservation training; I lecture about this topic at every opportunity. I always end my talks with a call to action, inviting more

My letters are usually training-related, but this time I want to share with you a personal story that affected me in a profound way. The details of the

A perplexing tool As I travel around the world lecturing about training, there are certain questions that come up again and again. The end-of-session signal, the keep-going signal, the

The controversial clicker Should we stop using a clicker? Is it really needed? A study by Chiandetti et al. published in November of 2016 in Applied Animal Behavior Science has raised many questions

Picture the possibilities Imagine teaching your dog to put his hind feet—just his hind feet—on a mat. Or, imagine teaching your cat to give a high-five. What if

As I write this article, I am in the middle of an exciting and quite lengthy period of travel. Jokingly, I have referred to this as my International Consulting

Remember when? Do you remember when you learned to tie your shoes? Maybe that’s too far back and the details are fuzzy. How about when you learned to

In April 2010, TIME magazine ran a cover story about paying kids cash to get better grades. The objections to cash ‘rewards’ for schooling have been around for a long time and

When I arrived at my client’s house last week, she was very excited to show me how well her dog Missy was doing with hand targeting. “Watch this!”

Clipping, snipping, brushing, poking… Pets have to tolerate not-so-pleasant procedures during grooming or veterinary care. But it’s hard to convince a feisty Fido that it’s great fun to