Archive for the ‘Tips for Dog Owners’ Category
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The 5 Fundamentals of Dog Training
While many of us enjoy the thought of being good at training our dogs, it’s admittedly a lot easier to “pretend” to know what we’re doing than to actually do the research. After all, we’ve all been exposed to the basic tricks, such as using food and treats to bribe dogs into doing something [...]
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Learn How to Speak ‘Dog’
Because dogs work so well with humans and seem to give an understanding eye when it comes to our behaviors, we often forget how little dogs understand. Some people even suspect that their dogs believe themselves to be humans, part of the family! When it comes to dog training, it’s important to remember [...]
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Three Tips for Riding in a Car With Your Dog
For dogs, riding in a car can be a fun and thrilling experience, especially when traveling with an owner or someone very familiar. Putting a head outside the window and feeling the strong wind is a favorite of many larger dogs who aren’t used to the speed of a car. For other dogs, [...]
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Why You Need to Train Yourself Before Your Dog
In dog training, there’s an old concept that says, quite simply, that the owner has to train himself before he can expect to train his dog. Why is this? Why can’t you simply learn some techniques, a few commands, and expect your dog to know them and respond to them? Well, if [...]
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3 Tips to Stop Dogs from Begging
You’ve had enough. Every night as your family sits down to dinner over a well-earned meal, your dog seems to forget its place and walks all over you, crowding the foot room under the table and climbing up when it sees you have some food. Why do dogs do this, and how exactly [...]
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How to Get Your Dog to Come When Called
People face a variety of problems with their dogs, some problems far more severe than others. Usually these seem like problems of simply obedience, but there might sometimes be root causes that go deeper than a simple “lazy” dog. If you’re going to raise a healthy and happy dog, you’re going to have [...]
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3 Tips to Help Housebreak Your Puppy
When you get a new puppy for your household, sometimes the excitement of the moment can replace your concerns. But when it comes down to living with this puppy in your everyday life, you realize that there’s more to this “dog ownership” thing than you originally thought. One important part of working with [...]
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What an Ideal Day of Dog Training Looks Like
You’ve read the books, you’ve searched endlessly for articles, and you’ve watched enough dog training television shows to make your eyes bleed. You are starting to understand the principles behind dog training, but when you look at your dog, you’re not exactly where to start with it all. So why don’t we start [...]
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Teach Your Dog English
One of the chief mistakes that the dog owner without a lot of dog training experience will make is losing patience with a dog that doesn’t understand the language you’re speaking. We sometimes forget that most of what we say sounds like gibberish to the dog, except perhaps for its name and a few [...]
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What to Do When Your Dog Misbehaves
So your dog urinated on the carpet. Or your dog excessively barks at strangers. Or maybe your dog constantly chases its own tail. How do you get a dog to change its behavior without being able to tell it exactly what you want changed? Every time you try to correct the behavior, [...]