Have you nailed down your dog’s training? Maybe you’ve noticed that your new puppy picked up commands remarkably quickly, learning how to sit and stay and roll over impressively rapidly. Maybe you’ve got an extremely intelligent dog like a collie, so you want to keep her mind active and happy. Maybe you just want to…
If you want your dog to behave and do as you say, you need to start trying them from a very young age. As soon as you get them, you should start to implement training methods to influence the way they behave. However, many dog owners don’t even realize that they’re making mistakes as they…
You may feel that your pet is totally secured inside the house. However, this may not be the case. Either you may have areas that you wouldn’t want your pets visited such as indoor swimming pools or you may want to keep your pet away from the visitor’s room or the living room. Using new…
The designer dog leash has high quality and long durability. There is no doubt that you love your pet dogs and want to give them the best you can. Taking your dog out for a walk will make it happy and excited and will give it a chance to meet other dogs and give it…
Tastes among humans differ, but one thing is constant: your dog will eat just about anything off the table you give it. That may be fine when it’s just you and the family. But when you have guests over, it can be embarrassing. Here are some tips for how to get pooch to stay away…
The word ‘vital’ has its roots in the Latin word for life. That gives us a clue to why dog training is so important, both for owner and dog – it enhances the quality of life for each. Though dogs have been domesticated for thousands of years, they still have much of the wild in…
Most dog owners sincerely want to train their dog well. But an almost equal number will underestimate the time and effort it takes to do so. The result is frequently a common set of mistakes that can be, with more or less effort, avoided. Dogs are not furry children. Though the average mature dog has…
The variety of dog species is so great that sometimes it’s better not to think of them all as part of the same species at all. Biologists do because they can interbreed. Dog owners have different purposes, so it can be better to emphasize the differences over the similarities. A Jack Russell terrier looks, thinks…
You’ve undoubtedly noticed that your dog is much smaller than a horse. (Well, most are anyway.) Nevertheless, most horses are much more frightened of dogs than the reverse. That creates unique problems – for dog, horse and the person who has to govern both. In this case, unlike other animal training areas, it helps very…
According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), dogs bite more than 4.7 million people per year. Law suits, medical bills and sometimes dog euthanasia are common results from this unwanted – and often avoidable – behavior. As with any dog training issue, how easy or difficult it is to train a dog not to…
