Protected Contact Isn't Just Management.

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training by Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

Sep 15, 202634:25Kids & family

Protected contact gets filed under zoo training, the thing you do when your learner can eat you. Hannah used to think that way too, right up until she noticed she'd been quietly using barriers with dogs and horses for ye...

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