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puppy manners

The Joys of ‘Fun’ Teaching

YOU KNOW HOW YOU FEEL WHEN YOU ARE UNDER PRESSURE AND FEEL YOU ARE BEING TESTED? LEARNING AND PERFORMING WHEN ON THE SPOT ISN’T EASY.Most of the time you actually…
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Managing Your Puppy Helps You Both

Providing your puppy with clear boundaries leads to great outcomes for you and them!Sometimes I am highly amused by the way people describe the behavior of their puppy. It sounds…
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Teaching Duration Skills for Dogs

  The way dogs learn to understand our verbal utterances is by associating a physical behavior with a specific sound combination the human emits. For example dogs can learn quickly that when their butt hits…
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Puppies: Behavior vs “Obedience”

So, here you are and you have a growing, teething puppy and you are confronted with a mountain of natural but undesirable behaviors. From jumping up and nipping and shredding…
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Relaxation protocols

As I am gaining more experience teaching dogs to be comfortable in the overly stimulating urban environment I am finding that rewarding settling on a blanket or bed of their…
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Canine manners

I would like to convince people that saying “no” or making other weird sounds that are supposedly serving as general inhibitors is futile. I don’t want Fifi to bark and jump…

overheard

So, I am in the elevator of my building and a woman who has recently adopted a dog enters with that pup along with a few other people. “SIT” she…

Puppy Training

I was going to write something about housetraining but I changed my mind. I think it is much more important to write something about another aspect of raising a puppy.…