In partnership with DailyOm.com, I’m thrilled to announce the release of my new course “How to Speak So Your Dog Will Listen.” This online course is geared towards strengthening the relationship that you and your dog share, and emphasizes how everything you do enhances (or potentially discourages) the connection between you and your dog. It’s a completely new twist on my approach to Natural Dog Training – with emphasis on relationship-building even as you push and tug with your dog.

Especially exciting for me is that this course contains my new “Inner Game of Dog Training.”  The Inner Game is a way to revolutionize your approach to training and playing with your dog, and it’s guaranteed to remove obstacles in your own psyche that might be getting in the way of your building the strongest possible relationship with your dog. The “Inner Game” will ultimately be available on its own as well, but here you’ll find it integrated as part of a whole connection-centric approach to what you do with your dog.

The lessons have both written and video content – along with exercises to complete – for a step-by-step approach to learning “How to Speak So Your Dog Will Listen.” Oh – and I almost forgot – you can pay WHAT YOU WANT for this course. Seriously. Just remember that I have a couple young kids to feed, ok? And my wife tells me we’re running low on chicken necks (just kidding Nola – those are yours).

For more information, and to purchase the course, please visit “How to Speak So Your Dog Will Listen” at DailyOM.com.  I’m looking forward to hearing what you think!

All my best – Neil

A few weeks ago, we had a free conference call with Lee Charles Kelley, where callers had the opportunity to ask questions about whatever is going on with their dogs and get answers from Lee (and yours truly). I personally love these calls, as it allows you to get a sense of how Natural Dog Training principles can be applied in your specific situation, with the added benefit of learning from the questions asked by others on the call.  Like with the conference call with Kevin Behan, you also get the perspective of a couple different trainers – so you get to hear the subtle differences in how we approach problems as well – or how we collaborate in coming up with solutions.

We recorded the call for posterity – and you can now download the .mp3 and listen to it at your leisure.  Some of the topics addressed include:

• A woman with a 100-lb dog who persistently fights at the fence with her neighbor’s dog.
• A teacup Yorkie who goes a little crazy and pees in the house when guests come over.
• A dog who has suddenly developed the habit of barking at people passing by the house.

Over the course of the call, Lee and I get a chance to talk about all sorts of different techniques for addressing these issues.  We mention several links on both of our websites, and I will list them here for your convenience:

1. Neil’s article on How to be the predator (and use it in your training)
2. Lee’s article on Dogs and Doorways
3. Lee’s article on how to play with and train a puppy
4. Lee’s article called “Conflict 101“
5. Lee’s article called “Leash Training 102“
6. Neil’s article on how to use Redirection/Rechanneling to turn your dog’s attraction to something else into greater attraction to you.
7. Lee’s article “Chasing Squirrels“

We’ll keep doing these conference calls, so stay tuned for more announcements!  Here’s the link to the recording – you can listen and/or download:

Conference Call with Lee Charles Kelley and Neil Sattin

After you’ve listened, I’d love your thoughts!  Here’s the thread in the forum for discussing the Conference Call with Lee Charles Kelley.