Leerburg Dog Training Podcast

In this podcast, Ed Frawley discusses some important things to consider before going into a training session with your dog. The most important part of a training session and successful training plan is establishing engagement. Ed gives some ideas on how to achieve engagement with your dog and some ideas of what to do if you are struggling to get engagement out of your dog. Have a training or equipment question? Reach out to Cindy via our Ask Cindy Portal on our website. She answers emails daily and will be able to give you specific advice and recommendations. - https://leerburg.com/newcontact.php

In this podcast, Ed Frawley and Kevin Sheldahl sit down and discuss the role of police and especially police dogs in the public media and what effects that has on police departments and local legislation. Together Kevin and Ed discuss how recent public scrutiny is affecting departments all across the country and things that both K9 Officers and Administrators should keep in mind if we want to keep using dogs on the street as a force multiplyer. Links: K9 Services - http://www.k-9services.com/ 2021 Muzzle Fighting Course - https://university.leerburg.com/Catalog/viewCourse/cid/135 Leerburg Dog Training Podcasts - https://leerburg.com/dogtrainingpodcasts.htm Ask Cindy - https://leerburg.com/newcontact.php

In this podcast, Ed Frawley and Kevin Sheldahl sit down and discuss their upcoming course on scent detection selection testing and foundations for police k9 service dogs. As scent detection becomes more popular in the sport world Kevin explains the differences of controlled sport settings and on the job requirements of detector dogs in a professional setting. By taking advantage of the dog's natural instincts and traits with in-depth foundational training Kevin has helped hundreds of dogs receive certification from a variety of organizations using his true and tried training methods. Links: K9 Services - http://www.k-9services.com/ 2021 Muzzle Fighting Course - https://university.leerburg.com/Catalog/viewCourse/cid/135 Leerburg Dog Training Podcasts - https://leerburg.com/dogtrainingpodcasts.htm Ask Cindy - https://leerburg.com/newcontact.php

In this podcast, Ed Frawley and Kevin Sheldahl sit down and discuss the 6-week Police Service Dog Handler school that Kevin has operated for decades through his business K9 Services. Together they discuss how the school started and the process candidates go through with their training and work with K9 Service Dogs. Kevin has worked with many departments in a variety of states that include Wisconsin, New Mexico, and some places in-between.

In this podcast, Ed Frawley sits down with long time friend and colleague, Kevin Sheldahl to discuss Leerburg's new online course Muzzle Fighting for Police Service Dogs. This is an updated version of the same course Leerburg produced in 2005 with Kevin. In this episode, Ed and Kevin will be discussing what they have learned in the last 15 years about how their approach and use of the muzzle fighting skill has changed with the evolution to dog training practices.

This podcast highlights Ed Frawley's main issues with "All-Positive" training.

This 25 minute podcast explores the methods to train your dog with food rewards. Training with food increases the dogs motivation to learn along with improving the bond between dog and handler. Trainers need to use different treats when training different exercises. Some dogs, for one reason or another, don’t have a lot of food drive. I explain the work to insure that every dog has food drive. I discuss the relationship between using high value meat rewards Vs using some of the many all-natural food rewards that we sell. Many people mistakenly use way to large of a food reward in training. I go into detail about what size to use and how creating a trail mix of different food rewards can positively effect the dogs motivation to work.

One of the most misunderstood areas of dog training, by beginners and so called professionals alike, is how and when to correct a dog. The lack of understanding of corrections is where many people get into trouble when they train their dogs.

The place command is probably the second most important obedience command after the come command. New dog trainers often completely miss how important and usefulness the place command.They think training a dog to sit, lay down, come and stay are all the commands they need when in fact being able to send your dog to HIS PLACE when guests knock at the door or when you are eating or watching TV or working on your computer will quickly become your favorite command.

Dog fights are violent, loud and dangerous events. I get emails every day on dog fights. As I wrote this description I got 2 emails. In one a family had two dogs . Their female GSD killed the dachshund last night. In the second email this family's dog was in a fight with a neighbors dog and did $1,400 damage.

This podcasts explains how to make your own puppy formula and then how to bottle feed new born pups. After breeding 350 litters of Germans Shepherds in the past 30 years, Ed Frawley at Leerburg Kennels has a lot of experience in this area.

This podcasts teachs pet owners how to safely add a new dog into a home with existing dogs. It explains how to control pack behavior that enters the picture when new dogs are added to a multidog home.

Ed Frawley's dog training philosophy after 45 years of dog training.