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3 Different Types of Dog Breeds To Remember
If you’ve recently brought a new puppy or adopted dog into your home, you’re probably looking into training techniques. Let’s face it – while dogs can be fun to have around, they also can cause a little bit of mischief, such as using the bathroom in the wrong places or developing bad habits like [...]
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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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A Sample Dog Training Daily Action Plan
When it comes to training your dog, we sometimes have to remember that also have to train ourselves. A dog that has a good “pack leader” living with him or her will need to know that you are consistent in the boundaries you set, as well as consistent with the habits you establish. [...]
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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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Train Yourself, Train Your Dog
For many of you who have tried to train your dog with mixed results, you might be wondering if you have a “faulty dog.” For many people, though there might not be such as thing as a “faulty dog,” they do feel as if somehow their dog is special in some way because the [...]
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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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3 Common Dog Training Mistakes
Although there are plenty of strategies that have been formed to train dogs, many people agree that there are a few principles to follow in almost every case. As our awareness of dogs and their behavior expands, these principles are reinforced, but we also learn some of the wrong ways to train dogs. [...]
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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 [...]