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Stop That Puppy: Why Training Starts Early On
Raising a dog from a puppy is an interesting experience – you get to see your dog grow up, develop, and eventually age as a hopefully healthy and happy part of the family. But how do you know when to start training? Aren’t most puppies too young to begin socializing and interacting with [...]
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Understanding Dogs through Boundaries
For many people, the whole “pack” or “pack leader” concept of working with dogs makes sense on a conscious level, but they don’t seem to quite get it to click when they work with their dog. They want to be the pack leader, but for some reason the dog still seems to push them [...]
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Should You Really Be the “Leader” For your Dog?
With the success of Cesar Millan’s “The Dog Whisperer” on the National Geographic channel, a lot of people are taking to the idea of becoming the “pack leader,” which is a way of viewing human-dog relationships. From this perspective, your house or family is actually a pack, and you – the owner – are [...]