by Sarah Stremming | Feb 3, 2023 | The Cognitive Canine
I can guess, with uncanny accuracy, what a team’s performance will look like in agility. This has nothing to do with the breed, or the experiences I have had with the handler. I can do it in a state I have never visited. I can do it in another country. I have....
by Sarah Stremming | Dec 10, 2022 | The Cognitive Canine
In 2011 I founded The Cognitive Canine with the mission of serving people whose dogs had behavioral concerns. In 2016 I started Cog Dog Radio. In the past ten years I have allowed the business to reach its branches, bend in the wind, and change with the seasons. It...
by Sarah Stremming | Oct 23, 2022 | The Cognitive Canine
I was training with my agility coach the other day and my dog Rayya informed us she needed a break. She had just run a fast sequence and as she was being set up to run another one she went and sniffed the nearby fence. Megan (my coach) said “well, she’s...
by Sarah Stremming | Sep 29, 2022 | The Cognitive Canine
For nearly 15 years I have been recommending that my clients find ways to increase their dogs’ off leash time in nature. During large portions of that time, this was not easily accessible to me. When I worked three jobs and barely had enough money to feed myself...
by Sarah Stremming | Mar 31, 2022 | The Cognitive Canine
Everyone wants to know what to do when their dogs make mistakes in training. There are all sorts of answers to this ranging from ignoring the error all the way up to attempting to punish the error. In reality, the best trainers know the best time to respond to an...
by Sarah Stremming | Jul 22, 2020 | The Cognitive Canine
My dog Idgie is eleven years old, and when I got her as an 8 week old puppy I was determined to “shape” 100% of her training. I was under the impression that luring was mindless, and I had fairly recently removed the use of aversive tools and practices...
