Better teaching yields better results

“My dog knows it! He’s just being stubborn.” Do you find yourself saying this when your dog doesn’t follow your cue? We are guilty of thinking or saying this statement. I did it out of embarrassment in training class before I became a trainer. 

What is happening with the dog is a lack of “generalization” of the behavior. My dog would do the behavior with some success in my living room. But I didn’t practice…