Dog training tools

List of Training Videos

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How to Get Started Teaching Your Dog to Focus Through Targeting
​Fitting the Comfort Trainer
How to Apply the Comfort Trainer
How to Apply the Freedom Harness
How to Place the Double Clip Lead
How to Use Each Training Tool
Teaching Your Dog to Heel
Teaching Your Dog to Sit
Teaching Your Dog to Stay, Part 1 - Time
Teaching Your Dog to Stay, Part 2 - Movement
Teaching Your Dog to Stay, Part 3, Distance
Teaching Your Dog the Down
Teaching Your Dog the Down/Stay
Teaching Your Dog the Recall
Teaching Your Dog to Return to Heel Position
The Loose Leash Walk
Long Lead Work
​Reduction of Comfort Trainer usage




Miriam's Gentle Dog Training System


Throughout her career, Miriam Fields has published more work about pets than most other pet trainers worldwide. She knows her subject matter so well that she often jokes that she has a pet encyclopedia in her head. Many other professional trainers have learned their craft by reading her published work. Countless pet owners learn how to communicate with, and train, their own pets by using her methods and, if lucky enough, working with her directly via her facility, Shady Mountain Pet Retreat.

She has put together a training system to aid you in your endeavors to teach your dog how to focus and learn. These training tools also help you understand how to approach training your dog using positive techniques. Through reading her book Click and Easy: Clicker Training for Dogs, you will learn these techniques. The training tools in this system give you the means of teaching your dog in a gentle manner, through redirection, praise and consistency.

You can also use these free videos to guide you through the process.
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Positive training using humane training tools and methods.