Denise Fenzi

The Family Ferrari

My son wants a Ferrari for Christmas and  I'm thinking about getting it for him. I can afford it; my neighbor has a used one for sale.  Apparently it's been "too much car" for him,...
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Placement of Rewards

If you want beautiful heeling, there's something you need to know. It's more important than your reward structure.  It's more important than verbal markers or clickers.  It's more important than...
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Doing Our Best

I recently had a conversation with a woman from a seminar.  She's been in dogs for a long time now; an obedience competitor who dabbles in agility and other dog sports.  She...
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Holding an Object

Lyra has a pretty good retrieve - she's fast and enthusiastic.   A few weeks ago I began adding the behavior of "sit in front and wait" If you think...
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Do All Dogs Have Food Drive?

Interesting question, so let's spend a minute thinking about it. I think we can agree that all animals must eat to survive, and that hunger is a driving force in...
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Food!

I know that 90% of you take food training for granted.  Food shows up and your dog gets happy.  For most people that is a good thing, since food is...
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Pressure - or Patience?

And I thought everyone would get up in arms over my blog post on my use of pressure.  Nope. Now it's time to admit that I don't  use much pressure with...
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Pressure

Not long ago I wrote a post about tolerating distractions; how to introduce distractions in small doses to help your dog function and succeed - a little bit at a...
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