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How to Train a Healthy Dog
If you raise a dog from a puppy and plan on living with that dog for the long haul, there’s a good chance that you care about that dog enough to want to give it a long, healthy life. This is a great thing, but it will require some investment of both time and [...]
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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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How to Use a Leash in Dog Training
Most people associate a leash with one simple act – walking your dog. When we head out with a dog, we expect to have them tied to us so that we can control them if need be, as well as preventing them from entering any potentially dangerous situations. But is this the limit [...]
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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, [...]
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How to Get Your Dog to Sleep In Its Crate
When you’re first raising your puppy or dog and want to teach it to sleep in its crate, it cane be frustrating to try to “force” the dog in. Instead, we’d like to know how exactly we can get a dog to sleep in a crate without putting up so much resistance – and [...]
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Four Tips to Get Your Dog to Actually Respond to You
If you’ve ever tried a dog training tip or tactic that you saw on television and realized that it’s not as easy as it looks, then you’re probably wondering why your particular dog doesn’t seem so responsive. In some cases, it may be an issue with the dog, but more often then not, it’s [...]
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The Three Phases of Dog Training
If you’re going to have an action plan that really gets results with your dog, then you need a step-by-step guide that actually tells you where to go from here. Anyone who’s owned a dog knows that nothing really sticks unless it’s treated with repetition, consistency, and that the owner makes sure that the [...]