Puppies are the focus of today, and a number of questions about different aspects of puppy training comes up from a few questions via Instagram. There is a reason we don’t worry about time, how old our dogs are, where other people’s dogs are at in their training, or comparing our dogs to any one […]

Perfecting the delivery is something that we work on from the very start with our retrievers. We talk a lot about hold conditioning, but that does not come into play until the dog is mature. What we haven’t done a good enough job of doing is stressing and showing you the things we do from […]

Coax and correct; a phrase Jeremy recently picked up. We often find that these mentalities and overall strategies we talk about with dog training applies to much more in our lives than just dog training. On this episode, Jeremy describes a recent experience he has had by joining blacksmithing class, how it connected to training […]

Hold conditioning questions have been coming in hot and heavy lately. On episode #58 of the pawdcast we are tackling these questions, and addressing some common mistakes we see with people struggling to get through hold conditioning. One of these mistakes is that people are continuing to retrieve with their dog while being in the […]

Pack dynamics within our households is a very common thing that we find people struggle with. On episode #57 of the podcast, we are going to dive into where your dogs place in the pack should be, and how you and everyone in your household becomes the leader. We recently received a question come in […]

Organizing dog training is an essential part of how we approach our training. We need to compartmentalize, and separate different parts of our training. This organization of our thoughts, ideas, and things that come up as we go through our training will help us to become a better handler. We recently received a question that […]

Crate training, kenneling up, and solving problems is the topic of discussion in episode #55 of the DogBone Pawdcast. These questions came in via Facebook, and lead into some great information on how we do these things, why, and what to be careful of when we do run into problems in our training. When a […]

DogBone Handler’s Workshops are fast approaching, so we decided to make this podcast on everything you will need to know about the 2020 workshops.  We get so many questions about them; is my dog too old, too young, far enough along, allowed to come if it’s not a hunting dog…what are these DogBone handlers workshops all […]

DogBone Handler's Workshops are fast approaching, so we decided to make this podcast on everything you will need to know about the 2020 workshops. We get so many questions about them; is my dog too old, too young, far enough along, allowed to come if it's not a hunting dog…what are these DogBone handlers workshops all […]

Bella be good update! We are very excited to continue with this puppy training series with Bella, and thought it was necessary that we share with you some of our struggles, successes, and where we are at with this little gun dog’s training. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the series on […]