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06/04/2026

Many people need to put more correction on a dog than is needed because they never turn the pressure off and start at "0".

Don't use the same correction on every dog and expect the same result, the right amount of pressure is whatever it takes to get the change you're after - because too little and you're nagging, too much and you're shutting them down.

This clip is from our "Arrow" series inside the DogBone Training Library. You can watch the full series by subscribing below:

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Every dog reads pressure differently. Arrow is a great example. What's a light tap of pressure for one dog might be way too much for him. What barely registers for him might flatten a different dog.

The mistake we see all the time is people picking a correction level and sticking with it whether it's working or not. They get bigger because they think the dog isn't listening. They get smaller because they feel bad. Neither one is reading the dog.

The right correction is whatever it takes to get the change you actually wanted - no more, no less. If the dog gives in to a light reminder, that's the level. If they don't, you go up. The second the behavior changes, you back off and let them work in the new state.

That's how you build a dog that respects the cue without dreading it - and that's exactly the kind of dog you want walking off lead with you in the field!

06/03/2026

Understanding memory and timing with dogs is extremely important. If your timing of your correction, or your timing for praise is off, you are reinforcing or correcting the wrong thing.

You need to be able to read the dog and be dialed on your timing to communicate to the dog effectively what you do or don't want it to do.

This clip is from inside the DogBone Training Library. You can watch the full video by subscribing below:
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06/02/2026

Don't let your puppy run off with the bumper or drop it at your feet, build a clean delivery from the very first retrieve - because delivery habits set in week one are the ones that stick.

This clip is from our "Bella Be... Good" series inside the DogBone Training Library. You can watch Bella's entire training from puppy to hunting by subscribing below:

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Bella's running her first retrieves with the DogBone puppy bumper.

Every rep matters at this age. The retrieve goes right or it doesn't go at all. If Bella drops it short, we walk back and reset. If she runs past us with it, we cut the angle off. If she delivers it clean, that's the rep that gets celebrated.

Get this right with a little puppy and you're not going to be fighting delivery issues, dropping bumpers, or sloppy deliveries at three years old - because the good habits were shaped from the beginning, and the bad habits were never allowed to form.

06/01/2026

Don't correct your dog three seconds after the mistake and expect them to connect the dots, the timing of the correction decides what they actually learn - because a dog doesn't care what you meant, they only know what you did when you did it.

This clip is from a seminar which lives inside the DogBone Training Library. You can watch the full video by subscribing below:

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Picture a puppy on place. You walk into the room, the puppy sees you and bounces off the bed. Trots across the floor. Reaches you. Plants his front feet on your leg.

Now you correct.

In your head, you corrected him for breaking the place. In his head? You corrected him for greeting you. Coming to a person is now the thing that gets him in trouble - not leaving the bed.

Run that mistake a couple times and you've got a dog who's confused about people, suspicious of your hands, and still bailing off the place command.

The correction has to land the moment the behavior happens. Better yet, before. Puppy starts to step off the bed - that's when the correction lands. He hasn't moved a foot yet, but he committed. Now the correction is tied to the right thing - leaving place - and the dog actually learns what we're trying to teach.

Late corrections don't teach what we think they teach. They teach the wrong lesson and then we wonder why the dog isn't getting it.

05/31/2026

Don't wait for your puppy to need recall before you start teaching it, walk away while they already want to follow you and pair every step with the whistle - because that's how the habit gets ingrained before they ever have a reason to ignore you.

This clip is from our Will Bella Be Good series inside the DogBone Training Library. You can watch the full Will Bella Be Good Video by subscribing below:

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The drill is simple. We walk away. Bella wants to be with us anyway, so she comes. Every time she comes, the whistle blows. Walk a few steps. Whistle blast. Bella comes. A little reward, then we walk again. Whistle blast. Bella comes again.

That's it. No corrections, no overthinking, no fancy gear. Just rep after rep after rep until the whistle and the act of coming to us become the same thing in her head.

By the time Bella is six months old and a thousand bird scents are pulling at her, that whistle isn't a request - it's a reflex she's been running since she was eight weeks old!

05/29/2026

Don't drop a young puppy into chaos and expect them to come out steady, surround them with calm, focused energy and they'll mirror whatever environment you give them - because puppies don't just learn from training sessions, they learn from everything around them.

This clip is from our "Bella... Be Good" training series inside the DogBone Training Library. You can watch the full series by subscribing below:

Watch the full series: dogbonehunter.com/training-library

Your puppy is training themselves every minute of every day, whether you're working with them or not.

If they spend their first months around dogs that bark at every noise, jump on every visitor, and lose their mind at the back door - that's what they learn. That's the program they install. By the time you're trying to undo it, you've got months of reps working against you.

Flip it the other way. Calm dogs in the household. Quiet feeding times. Structured introductions. People who don't wind them up the second they walk in the door. The puppy soaks all of it in and that becomes their normal.

You can't control everything around a young puppy. But you can control more than you think - and the energy they live in for those first few months sets the foundation for the dog they're going to be at three, five, ten years old!

05/29/2026

Don't let your dog rip their head out the second the leash comes off, build the on-and-off as its own drill - because the way they come on and off the lead tells you exactly what kind of control you actually have.

This clip is from our Cody Go Back series inside the DogBone Training Library. You can watch the full Cody Go Back Video by subscribing below:

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Most dogs treat the leash coming off as a release - head whips out, body shoots forward, suddenly they're moving and you're not. That's not a release, that's a habit you let them install.

We treat the leash itself as part of the drill. Lead on, dog stays still. Lead off, dog stays still. Lead back on, dog stays still. Nothing changes about the dog's body just because the snap clicked.

If they pull their head out as you're unclipping, stop. Reset. Lead back on. Wait for calm. Try again. They'll figure out pretty quick that the only way out of that loop is to not pull at all.

A dog that comes on and off the lead under control is a dog that's listening to you - not to the gear!

05/27/2026

Don't expect a dog to do anything at 200 yards that they can't do clean at your feet, fix it on lead first - because distance only magnifies whatever's already broken.

This clip is from a seminar that lives inside the DogBone Training Library. You can watch the full video by subscribing below:
Watch the full video: dogbonehunter.com/training-library

Pick any command - sit, here, heel, whoa, sit to the whistle. If your dog can't hit it clean six feet in front of you, they're not going to magically hit it at 200 yards across a field with birds in the air and three other distractions pulling at them.

Distance doesn't fix sloppy. It makes sloppy worse.

So we build everything close. Sit to the whistle - one short blast, dog parks their butt, looks at the handler. Right there on the lead. Over and over until it's automatic. Then we add a little distance. Then a little more. Then real distractions. Then field conditions.

By the time we're handling a dog at 300 yards on a blind, that whistle sit isn't something we're hoping for - it's something we already know they own!

05/26/2026

Don't lock yourself into being a force trainer or a treat trainer, learn to read your dog and use the right tool at the right moment - because the best dogs come from the middle, not either extreme.

This clip is from a seminar that lives inside the DogBone Training Library. You can watch the full video by subscribing below:

Watch the full video: dogbonehunter.com/training-library

There's a camp out there that says everything is a correction. There's another camp that says everything is a cookie. Both can work - until they don't.

Balance means knowing when a dog needs encouragement and when they need accountability. When to push and when to back off. When the reward is the right answer and when the correction is. It's not a system you bolt on - it's a feel you develop by spending real time with real dogs.

That's the kind of training that holds up year after year, season after season - not because you found a trick, but because you learned to read the dog in front of you!

05/24/2026

Don't expect a wound up puppy to settle when you're amped up too, slow yourself down first and let the puppy mirror your energy - because they're reading you long before they're listening to you!

This clip is from our Puppy Training series inside the DogBone Training Library. You can watch the full Puppy Training Video by subscribing below:

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Puppies read body language way before they understand a single word out of your mouth. The way you move, how fast you breathe, how loud your voice gets, whether your hands are flying around - they're tracking all of it.

When your puppy is bouncing off the walls, the worst thing you can do is match their energy. Calm puppy doesn't come from a louder voice and faster hands. It comes from you slowing down - drop your shoulders, lower your voice, slow your movement - and waiting them out.

They'll settle into whatever tone you set. So set the one you actually want them living in.

That's the same calm energy that keeps a dog steady in the blind years down the road - and it starts the day you bring them home!

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