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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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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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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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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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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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“Treat” Your Dog to Better Training
How many times have you seen a dog who will sit for you once you reveal that you have a treat? In many cases, we feel that we are in a better position to bribe this dog and it will better listen to our commands, but we have to consider another factor. The [...]
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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 [...]