‘Daily Exam’ exercise essential
Teach your dog to lie belly up between your legs with the dog’s head at your stomach.There are at least five reasons why the ‘daily exam’ exercise is essential in early dog training and periodically for the dog’s well being there after.
Dogs Make Us Healthier? They Might.
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Dog Takes Break From Dog Class
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Ten steps in training
Here is a brief list of ways to train your dog. The list corresponds closely to the approach we have found effective in our training school. The basic concepts — be consistent with the language and physical signals you use, be persistent recognizing that it may take repetitions for your dog to learn what you […]
‘Leave it’ – highly useful lesson
At this holiday season there surely are lots of things in the house one wants to have the dog leave alone. Curbing a dog’s counter surfing is a common goal. One can teach the ‘Leave it’ command as a follow-on to the ‘Stay’ exercise. This is one of the lessons in our beginning courses. You can […]
Holiday social manners for pets
Holidays and pets — lots of dos and don’ts. This cute Wall Street Journal story describes a pet holiday dinner party at a dog school in New York City. http://goo.gl/Cbbtv1
Curb the dog’s surfing
Eager dogs may want to jump on the kitchen counter to help herself/himself to the food or other items just out of reach. That, of course, can be really frustrating when the Thanksgiving Turkey is appropriated by the dog before dinner. As your dog begins to learn basic commands, you can begin to teach him […]