Responsible Dog Ownership: Party Prep by Marie Turner-Bailie
With Fall fast approaching, we’re getting to the season where we gather to enjoy friends and family. This can bring new experiences or unfamiliar situations to your dogs that they’re...
Read MorePowering into the Summer: How to keep from Overworking your Dog by Betsy Payne
Powering into the Summer: How to keep from overworking your dog Dogs are amazingly physical creatures. Amazing enough to have more types of muscle fiber than we do. They can...
The Dog in our Head
The Dog in our Head Sammy is an adolescent schipperke who is VERY smart, full of life and energy with a high drive (She stays ‘in the game’ despite adversity)....
Meet Melissa - Dog Trainer
Melissa-Lynn Stamm, CPDT-KA and AKC CGC Evaluator Approved. (Pronouns She/Her) Melissa-Lynn Stamm is coming to Daack Pack Dog Training with 6 years of reinforcement-based dog training experience. She has worked with...
Subject line: Arousal by Marie Turner-Bailie
In the beginning of October 2022 I went to the Clinical Animal Behavior Conference (CABC) in Las Vegas. This conference was a great way to keep my knowledge fresh and...
FEB.2023 Monthly Newsletter
Click here to access the full FEB. 2023 Newsletter or check your email for a copy! Pro Tip of the Month: Treat size, it can be a very underappreciated part of training...
Read MoreFluent Eating by Marie Turner-Bailie
Have you heard of fluent eating? I know, me either. At the Clinical Animal Behavior Conference, Lindsay Wood Brown made an important point. Don’t move on till you have fluent...
Read MoreHow to make Training Plans attainable by Marie Turner-Bailie
Now we all have made goals for ourselves at some point in our lives. We might even have a New Years Resolution, but how do we go about making it...
Meet Betsy - Virtual Trainer
Betsy Payne, CPDT-KA, CCFT, is a Fear Free Certified and LLA Graduate. (Pronouns She/Her) Betsy comes to Daack Pack with a variety of prior experiences within the Dog Training Industry. ...
My time at the Behavior Symposium by Marie Turner-Bailie
My morning started off picking up Allison Daack, a speaker and our Canine Behavior Consultant for Daack Pack Dog Training Inc. When we drove through UC Davis campus it was...
Reading Recommendations from a Former Librarian - The Other End of the Leash
The Other End of the Leash shares a different perspective on our relationship with dogs, focusing on our behavior in comparison with that of dogs. An animal behaviorist and dog trainer with more than...
Read MoreYou Choose! Chinchilla Edition
“You Choose” is a great way to figure out your pets preferred foods work on impulse control, encourage critical thinking and add enrichment. I love this exercise! It helps to...
Read MoreReading Recommendations from a Former Librarian - Don't Shoot the Dog!
Karen Pryor's clear and entertaining explanation of behavioral training methods made Don't Shoot the Dog a bestselling classic. Told in an entertaining way, Pryor bounces from clicker training a fish,...
Read MoreMyth Busting - "It's all in how they're raised."
I am sure you have heard this being said about dogs before but as always in the world of behavior, it's not that simple. With things like dog training and...
Read MoreThe Thinking Dog Protocol
We all want a dog that listens not just in the home but all so outside the house, on walks and off leash. For dogs each space has its own...
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