Free Training Library

Dear friends and colleagues, I am excited to announce that we have added a FREE Training Library to our website.  This is a great opportunity for us to give you my training materials to prepare and train for disaster response, animal control, handling fearful dogs in animal shelters, and trap/neuter/release (Animal Birth Control) programs. WE [...]

Video of boxtrapping a dog on You Tube

There are several posts on this blog describing how to capture dogs with box traps.   There are so many ways they can be used.  You can set up a box trap and leave it to catch a specific dog, you can set up a trap line of boxtraps, check the trap line  and gather dogs.   [...]

Capturing Dogs with Boxtraps, Part 2. Baiting the Trap

A new training video for how  to boxtrap dogs is not available!!! – visit our website at GWR Products. Once we have a good place chosen for placing our boxtrap, we then set it up in a way that it is stable and a welcome sight for the dog to enter! (See Part 1) Now [...]

Capturing Dogs with Boxtraps, Part 1. How to Set the Trap

For a detailed training video on on how to box trap dogs – visit our GWR Products page. Sometimes the most efficient way to capture dogs is with a box trap.  In disaster response, the first dogs are caught by hand, but there gets a point when the fearful dogs cannot be approached.  Then box  [...]

Meat and Potatoes

In this blog I have spent quite a bit of time talking about attitudes, behavior, and things like dominance and the energy of conflict.  I am really enjoying your comments about his – Thank You!  Please send more! I will continue to write about these topics, especially when there are comments generating discussion, but it [...]