What is positive reinforcement? As reward based trainers all of our exercises are focused on teaching the dog specific behaviours and rewarding the dog when they get it right. In a nutshell positive reinforcement means adding something pleasant in order to increase the likelihood of that behaviour being repeated. An example, you cue your dog […]
Early puppy training provides gundog owners with the knowledge they need to help their dogs adapt to the life they live and prevent behavioural problems from developing.
There’s often some confusion in the gundog community about what force-free training really means. At Scurries, both Jay and Emily teach force-free training methods, so we wanted to explore what exactly we mean when we say this.
