May 16th, 2013
By Eric Letendre
There is a company in Woodland Hills, CA that operates as a doggy CSI.
If your dog takes a dump and you don’t pick it up, this company will take a sample of your dog’s poop and track you down.
How do they do it?
Through the dog’s DNA.
Poo Prints West is the company and they use the same DNA testing that police do to hunt down criminals.
This is how it works:
A residential community signs up for the service. It requires its tenants to have their dogs swabbed for a DNA sample, then when some “evidence” is discovered, a nickel-sized sample would be tested.
Right now it is mostly used in apartment complexes and home owner associations.
Anyway. . .
. . . I’m glad I taught my dogs to go “on command.”
I give my dogs the “Get busy” signal and the floodgates open and the best part – this is not that difficult to teach.
Moral of the story.
Train your dog to go #1 and #2 on command. It really makes your life easier on cold rainy days or when the Doggy DNA Team comes to your town.
The Housetraining Handbook has everything you need to know about housetraining and more. The best part is that you can get it and other popular dog training courses during the Amazing Dog Training Man’s Spring Sale.
Here’s where to go NEXT:
All the best,
Eric
July 23rd, 2012
By Eric Letendre
Got this email over the weekend:
“Hi Eric, Love your emails. Very informative and fun to read but I have one problem. I have a little four month old yorkie that my husband and I adore but she has one problem. She still poos inside the house. We need her 2 poo outside, any suggestions?”
No fun having a yorkie that poos in the house.
This would be described as a behavior problem by many of the dog training “experts.”
Let me make this very clear – This is NOT a behavior problem. Your dog peeing and pooing is a normal, natural function that all living creatures need to perform.
When your dog pees or poos in the house it is a LOCATION PROBLEM.
Sorry for the all the captial letters but I really want you to understand this because when it is called a behavior problem it is often lumped in with bad behavior and bad behavior is always viewed through the lens of punishment.
When a dog poos inside it is not bad behavior and a dog should not be punished.
In fact, punishment can quickly backfire and cross associations can develop.
A cross association is when your dog makes a negative association with your presence, not the event you were punishing for.
For example: A dog pees in the house. The owner gets mad drags the dog over to the urine and stuffs his nose in it and yells “BAD DOG.”
The dog now learns to hold it when the owner is around. They hold it in the house and they hold it when they are outside with the owner.
The dog has to eventually go so guess what the dog does?
He hides.
He finds a place where no one can see him and he pees behind the couch, under the table anywhere he can’t be seen.
Instead, we need to think of this as a location problem and apply the M.U.T.T. Method as discussed in Friday’s email.
So if your dog still pees or poos inside the house, remember that housetraining is like real estate:
Location, location, location.
Teach your dog the right location and your dog will be housetrained faster than you can say “Amazing Dog Training Man.”
BTW – The Housetraining Handbook is included on The Dog Training Inner Circle which shows you the step-by-step method to teach your dog or puppy the right location.
Get all the details here:
All the best,
Eric
June 11th, 2012
By Eric Letendre
Certain training techniques produce amazing results.
Your dog can be trained in just a few minutes a day.
Your dog can quickly learn to come back when you call, walk on leash without pulling, and never jump on you or anyone else.
Why then do so many people have a difficult time training their dogs?
The answer is simple: Not all training is the same.
In fact, there are many different ways to train a dog and much of the information on dog training is old, outdated and in many cases, downright harmful.
Some methods of training can make a dog aggressive, fearful or withdrawn.
That’s why I decided to put together my Ultimate Online Dog Training Course. I show you the exact steps you need to know that I have learned over 20+ years training dogs.
You see, I got my first dog when I moved out on my own. I was completely confused and had NO idea what I was doing and quickly became frustrated, angry and often depressed.
I was terrible at housetraining and would come home every day to a mess on my carpet and something chewed.
The relationship went from bad to worse with my little sheltie. I started reading every book I could get my hands on and kept getting more and more confused.
Each book seemed to tell me something different.
I ended up hiring a “professional” dog trainer and decided I was going to get my dog trained and figured he would have all the right answers.
I was shocked by the collar he put on my dog and when he started to yank my dog around. I felt terrible watching as my dog was yanked around the yard.
I asked if there was another way to train and was laughed at.
The trainer firmly stated: “Dogs respond to a strong pack leader and you need to do this in order for your dog to learn.”
One more session with this guy and I fired him.
It was at that point that my life literally changed. I decided to learn everything I could about dog training and behavior.
What started as a quest to find out more about dog training to help my dog turned into a full time profession.
I enrolled in classes, attended seminars, traveled the country and met and worked with some of the best dog trainers on the planet.
I discovered that different training methods produced different results. Then I began experimenting and started to develop a training system; a simple, easy dog training system that anyone could follow to get great results with their dog.
Then I started helping other people train their dogs and eventually opened a dog training school helping thousands of dog owners to train their dogs.
In 2007, I decided my goal was to help even more people understand dog behavior and training.
I sat down and developed the Ultimate Online Dog Training Course, sharing all the secrets I had learned at a price anyone can afford.
See what it’s all about here:
Ultimate Online Dog Training Course
All the best,
Eric
November 4th, 2011
By Eric Letendre
Cold weather is not to far off. Now is the time to teach your dog to “Get busy” on command. This video will help:
P.S. Most surveys rank housetraining as one of the top ten dog behavior problems. If you’re having housetraining problems with your dog check out the Housetraining Handbook.
October 26th, 2011
By Eric Letendre
I don’t know what it was but last week I got a lot of emails asking about submissive peeing. This is when a dog will pee if someone greets the dog.
Here is a video that can help:
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Eric Letendre is a professional dog trainer from the United States. For more than 20 years, he has been developing dog training techniques that have worked for dog owners all over the world. Eric operates from a home office or a laptop while traveling and draws on his experience and passion for dog training to show others how to develop a dog that is truly “Man’s Best Friend”.
Eric is the author of numerous reports, the E-Book “101 Ways to Hack Your Dog’s Behavior,” “The Amazing Dog Training Man Book,” and produced and stars in his DVD “Secrets of a Professional Dog Trainer.”
