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Teaching a Solid Recall

Sep 14, 2017
1 min

Teaching a Solid Recall

The recall is one of THE most important things we can teach a puppy. When a young puppy first joins your family, he has a natural instinct to follow you. I use this instinct to train my puppies to come when called. We spend a lot of time in the yard working and playing off leash. Every minute or so, I quickly move away from my puppy while saying, "COME!" and then I ALWAYS give my puppy a treat for doing so. I feed him a treat, take hold of his collar (because it's good practi

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Does your puppy have an upset stomach?

Sep 7, 2017
2 min

Does your puppy have an upset stomach?

Does your puppy have an upset stomach? Try giving him one tablespoon of 100% pure pumpkin puree with his food. Pumpkin is full of fiber and helps regulate your puppy’s digestive tract. Puppies love the taste of pumpkin and it helps settle uneasiness in the stomach. Another thing you can try is to add a probiotic to his meal. Some puppy foods are equipped with a probiotic in them while others you need to add a supplement. A spoonful of yogurt can help as well. Still having

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Whatever gets rewarded, gets repeated!

Aug 31, 2017
1 min

Whatever gets rewarded, gets repeated!

Do you ever catch your puppy doing something you really like? When I am working in my kitchen preparing a meal or a snack, oftentimes my pup will come over to where I am and lie down on the floor in a completely relaxed fashion. I LOVE this behavior! It is WAY better than counter surfing - jumping on the counter to find something yummy - and I didn’t even command him to do it. He did it on his own. In dog training, I know that if I want my dog to repeat a behavior, all I need

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What do you want your dog to do?

Aug 24, 2017
1 min

What do you want your dog to do?

Sometimes we focus only on what we want our dog to STOP doing....stop biting, stop chewing, stop barking, stop jumping, etc. What if you turned things around and focused on what you want your dog TO do instead? This is a trick in dog training and it can work for you! For example, let’s say your dog jumps on visitors when you open the front door. Instead of thinking, I want my dog to stop jumping on people, think, “I wish my dog would sit when he greets a stranger.” Now that y

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Why do dogs heel on the left?

Sep 19, 2016
3 min

Why do dogs heel on the left?

It’s a fair question: why do we ask our dogs to heel on our left side? For that matter, why do we do so many things to the left? Why do we mount a horse from the left side? The reason is basically the same. We have our dog’s heel to our left because this is a right handed world. In the old days, when men still wore swords, it was necessary to mount horses from the left side for safety purposes. With the swords hanging on the left side (for right handed riders), it was e

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