In partnership with DailyOm.com, I’m thrilled to announce the release of my new course “How to Speak So Your Dog Will Listen.” This online course is geared towards strengthening the relationship that you and your dog share, and emphasizes how everything you do enhances (or potentially discourages) the connection between you and your dog. It’s a completely new ..read more

What does it mean to BE THE MOOSE? Watch how Hessian, German Shepherd Dog, trained using Natural Dog Training, reacts when he sees a deer!

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A few weeks ago, we had a free conference call with Lee Charles Kelley, where callers had the opportunity to ask questions about whatever is going on with their dogs and get answers from Lee (and yours truly). I personally love these calls, as it allows you to get a sense of how Natural Dog Training principles can be ..read more

Thanks to our readers, the Natural Dog Training site is full of fantastic questions and interesting scenarios. We are continuing to develop the site in order to nurture this dynamic, growing community, and hope to provide more and more resources to improve your learning experiences with NDT. At the moment, we realize that there are often questions or comments that ..read more

Lindsay Stordahl, of ThatMutt.com, recently reviewed my instructional DVD set Natural Dog Training: The Fundamentals. Lindsay is a professional dog-walker (and blogger), so I was extremely interested to hear if she was able to start incorporating Natural Dog Training into what she does with her dog (or the other dogs she walks). We have a shared fondness for ..read more

If you’ve read more than a couple articles here on the Natural Dog Blog, then you know that the way that I work with dogs has also had a profound effect on my relationships with people.  In fact, along with coaching people with their dogs, I have been coaching people to improve their relationships, and I have also been ..read more

Mother dog adopts kittens

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One of the most prolific writers on the web about Natural Dog Training is Lee Charles Kelley.  He has a blog on Psychology Today’s website, his own blog, a ning community for dog training discussions, and his expert advice appears online in discussion forums the whole world wide web over.  Plus, he’s a bestselling mystery author whose protagonist is an ..read more

Recently I was approached by Tobias Lansley of Dog Obedience Training Online for an interview. It’s always interesting to talk to people who have no preconceived notion of what Natural Dog Training is, or how I train – particularly because the questions can take us into unexpected territory. Tobias’s site is set up as a resource for people ..read more

By Dixie Laite of Body+Soul Magazine; April 2010

My dogs are such good listeners, letting me prattle on about my weight, the deficit, Hugh Laurie. But as important as those topics are, the words I really want them to pay attention to are two life-saving commands.

“DOWN!” Returning from a romp in New York City’s Central Park, my friend Alice stopped to ..read more