10 May Talking Dog

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One item that fascinates me in dog training is the communication factor.  How is it dogs communicate with each other, but more interestingly is how the communicate with humans.  How do we know what they want without speaking?  A simple thing at breakfast this morning...

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08 May Is Your Dog Tipping The Scales?

Posted at 17:24h in dog behavior modification, dog behaviors, Dog Nutrition, Dog Obedience, Dog Training, House Training, Puppy Training, Uncategorized 0 Comments

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Many times when I am training, we will take the clients dogs to the park for work on our loose leash walking.  More often than not I will see several dogs that are overweight and some so overweight I don’t know how they got out...

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02 May Communicating With Your Dog

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Telling the dog No! When our dogs do something that we don’t want them to do, we immediately say "No Sam" (their name), or hopefully no ma’am or no sir.  But what I have found is we are still not fully communicating with our dogs.  We...

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30 Apr What is the Best Way to Train the Dog?

Posted at 13:19h in Crate Training, dog behavior modification, dog behaviors, Dog Obedience, Dog Training, House Training, Puppy Training, Uncategorized 0 Comments

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Dog training has evolved from the rough and tough you do what I say, to using both positive and negative reinforcement to train our dogs.  Years back people would tie their dogs outside, they were hardly ever allowed in the house , let alone on...

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24 Apr Hiding The Reward

Posted at 21:17h in dog behavior modification, dog behaviors, Dog Obedience, Dog Training, House Training, Puppy Training, Therapy Dog 0 Comments

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When working with marker training, mostly known as clicker training some dogs turn out to be way smarter than we think.  We teach them if there is a click there is a treat.  Some dogs go along fine with that and perform all we ask...

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23 Apr Why Socialize?

Posted at 11:54h in dog behavior modification, dog behaviors, Dog Obedience, Dog Training, Puppy Training, Uncategorized 0 Comments

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You often hear people use the relatively new training term, socialization, when they talk about training a dog.  Years ago, people were not thinking about socializing their dog, they were hiring baby sitters for the kids and socializing themselves!   Now, socializing has turned into a...

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19 Apr Teaching Your Dog To Think

Posted at 13:57h in Crate Training, dog behavior modification, dog behaviors, Dog Nutrition, Dog Obedience, Dog Training, House Training, Puppy Training, Therapy Dog 0 Comments

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The Thinking Dog Did you ever look in your dog’s eyes and wonder what they are thinking?  Often I see my dogs lying outside in the grass and I really wonder what is going through their minds.  Is it some outside stimulation, is it dinner, is...

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17 Apr What Colors Can the Dog See?

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The Color Purple..From A Dog’s Eye Over the years many people have the belief that a dog is color blind, and only can see in black and white.  Well tests now have proven that old myth not to be true.  I’m glad, the thought of them...

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15 Apr Puppy Biting

Posted at 14:10h in dog behavior modification, dog behaviors, Dog Obedience, Dog Training, Puppy Training 0 Comments

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As Bernard approaches the age of fourteen weeks, we are still suffering the wrath of the razor sharp teeth! When we were at an event over the weekend a girl came up to him to pet, and he nipped her hand. She was shocked that...

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08 Apr Are You A Control Freak With Your Dog?

Posted at 13:03h in dog behavior modification, dog behaviors, Dog Obedience, Dog Training, Puppy Training 0 Comments

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Surprisingly enough the majority of people in America are control freaks in some sense or another.  We don’t want to admit it, but it is true.  I can say it for almost everyone in my family in some way shape or form.  Now what happens...

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