Dog Training

Why Do Dogs Eat Dirt?

Dogs are known for digging up and eating dirt while seeming delighted with themselves. Puppies and adolescent doggies are usually just ‘nosey’ — they are curious and want to know what’s going on around them. They ‘research’ using their ‘nosey’ feature, and when they locate something ‘interesting,’ they begin their excavation and devour their ‘found.’[...]
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How to Help Your Pet Get Over Their Car Anxiety

 When you adore your dog, you want to take it wherever with you. Even if it means getting behind the wheel of an automobile. While many dogs enjoy automobile rides, others despise them and whimper, slobber, or even vomit. This might be caused by motion sickness, a past traumatic experience in the automobile, such as[...]
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10 Fun Brain Games for Dogs

It’s the end of the Christmas season, and things are starting to slow down. Your dog may feel bored if you have fewer activities scheduled and the weather keeps you indoors. Brain Games are a fun way to relieve boredom, increase focus, and prevent behavioural problems in your dog. It’s also a great way to[...]
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Potty Training for Dogs

Potty training necessitates patience and devotion in order to achieve the goal of instilling good biological behaviors in your dog. As a result, you’ll be able to coexist in a healthy manner in a clean environment. When your dog is housebroken, it will be less stressful for you, your family, and your dog. When Should[...]
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Recalls- Dog Training

When it’s time to teach recalls in my level-one puppy classes, I get everyone’s attention and say: “Now I’m going to tell you three fantastic ways of teaching your pup…” — insert pregnant pause — “…never to come to you.” Of course, everyone laughs and looks puzzled. But without meaning to, new owners screw up[...]
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Heeling with Small Dogs- Dog Training

Introducing heeling with small dogs can present some special challenges due to the fact that it’s very uncomfortable to bend over so far in order to lure them along with a treat. This is where it’s really important to use a killer treat to help your dog target it and maintain her focus while moving.[...]
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Targeting the Treat

The next step in heeling is to reduce the reliance on treats. To do this, teach your dog to target the treat in your hand and maintain her focus there even when she’s not able to continually pull off bits of the treat. You can also start closing your hand more and more until the[...]
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Left & Right Turn- Dog Training

When heeling, right and left turns present some special challenges. In a perfect world, when your dog is heeling, she’s supposed to be in an imaginary box just left of your left knee. That means that even when you make a turn, your dog should never leave that imaginary box. But when turning either right[...]
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Introducing Heeling- Dog Training

Once sit, down, and stand are well established with hand signals, it’s time to move on to heeling — a very difficult exercise to do well. What’s its purpose? The most obvious is to teach your dog to walk alongside you nicely without pulling on the leash regardless of surrounding distractions. But there’s a deeper[...]
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