New owners of cute puppies do the right thing by taking them for walks. But the mistake they make is allowing the puppy to walk on its own off leash. What eventually happens is that the puppy leads and the owner follows. This will happen for a few weeks until the owners realize that there [...]
Puppy training is of vital importance, whether you are training your first puppy or whether you’re a seasoned pro. Appropriate training and socializing for your puppy is an essential component in making your puppy a valued member of your family.
Training a puppy is often considerably easier than training an adult or adolescent dog. [...]
Does your dog growl or bark when a stranger approaches your house or when something goes bump in the night? If so, you’re not alone. Most dogs will vocalize when they are exposed to new or different situations, including strange people or animals entering their territory; being separated from their pack, mother or even your [...]
Are you looking for an easy and relatively affordable way to train your dog? If on a budget, a one-on-one training session may be out of the question. That doesn’t mean you are unable to get your dog in-line. It just means that you need to examine other options. One of those is buying and [...]
As with any dog coaching tool it has got to be used responsibly to guarantee efficacy, and safety for your dog.
It is important to concentrate on the way the collar fits the dog. It is critical that the training collar be correctly fitted to the dog. A correctly fitted training collar is simpler to use [...]
The benefits of having a well trained dog are aboundless. Owning a dog that knows his or her place in the family, is a pleasure as the amount of conflict that takes place between you and the dog is minimal to none at all. Training your dog to live as part of your family (pack) [...]
A dog that begs obviously wants something. What the dog wants is not as important as how he asks for it. There are a variety of sources that teach an owner how to train the family dog. The steps involved are usually systematic and repetitive and you have to read pages and pages of content that you really do not need. Our goal here is simply to stop a behavior, that’s it.
Effective communication with your dog maintains the pecking order in your home and ensure that you remain the top dog. Allowing your dog to dominate you in any way is unhealthy for your dog (as well as potentially dangerous for you, particularly if you have a big dog).
Failure to understand your dog’s behaviour and how [...]
The key to house training your dog is to rely on your dog’s natural instincts and tendencies.
Dogs are instinctively clean animals. If they can avoid it, they would rather not soil themselves or their usual eating and sleeping areas. Dogs also naturally develop habits of where they would like to eliminate. For example, dogs that [...]
This is the final part of a 4 part series that highlights and explains the way dogs behave.
URINE MARKING
Dogs have a way to declare ownership in a territory and one way is to mark the area with urine. By nature, a male dog especially will sniff out where other dogs have been and place their [...]
