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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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Why to Avoid Negative Reinforcement Training for your Dog
It’s one of the most common mistakes someone without a lot of dog training experience will make: trying to get the dog to “avoid” a behavior by punishing them for it. But does this really work, and if it did, wouldn’t it be much easier to train dogs? One of the first [...]
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Does Your Dog Need a Trainer?
If you’ve been trying to raise a puppy or have received a dog well into that dog’s adulthood, there’s a good chance that you’ve at least made some attempts to raise your dog in a specific way as part of your household. Even if you aren’t interested in dog training, some essentials like requiring [...]
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How to Let a Dog Knows Its Role in Your Household
A healthy dog is one that knows it’s not in command of your household. And it’s not. After all, you pay the bills, you take care of your dog, and you dish out the rewards – you’re the one in charge. It’s when people give their power away to their dogs that [...]
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Are you a Dog Whisperer?
You’ve probably heard of the phrase “Horse whisperer,” which refers to someone so adept at training horses that they can practically “whisper” to the horses in what seems like their own little languages. Sometimes, this is even taken literally when a trainer uses whispering to comfort a horse! But what does it mean [...]
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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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How to Establish a Pack Hierarchy With Your Dog
One thing you’ll want to do as an effective trainer of your dog is avoid the temptation to elevate your dog to “friendship” status. Yes, your dog can be a friend, but if you treat them like a fellow human being, a dog’s behavior will be incongruent with the way it should be as [...]
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Five Crucial Lessons Every Puppy Should Learn
If you’ve recently brought a puppy into your home, you’re already looking forward to enjoying your dog’s companionship for years to come. This is especially true if you have children, who will get to experience what it’s like seeing a dog grow up in front of their very eyes. But in order to [...]
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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 [...]
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Five Reasons You Should Treat Your Dog Like…A Dog
For many people, “man’s best friend” can be like a real best friend – always keeping you company, giving you affection, and being around all the time. But there can be a negative consequence to this type of friendship in that some owners start to treat their dog like a person rather than a [...]