My neighbor’s dogs barked all night-close enough and loud enough to keep me awake. There happened to be a full moon last night, and the coyote’s of the area were howling and barking nearby, driving the dogs crazy. My dogs also barked when they first heard the nearby coyotes, but after I commanded them to [...]
Getting an early start to training and socializing your puppy with group puppy classes is a great idea. Puppies can start learning new tricks as early as 6 weeks old, so it is never too early to get started. There is no better time to get started with the socializing and basic obedience training of [...]
Do you want to know the easiest way to leash train your new puppy? You can get a head start on that by beginning the leash training of your puppy very early on. When my puppy was only six weeks old he could already walk with his leash. By 8 weeks of age, he was [...]
As in all areas of educating, there are different methods of doing things, and different beliefs about what is right and wrong. Religion would be one of these. The next thing that usually comes to mind is how many different ways there are to discipline your child. Striking your child or not is a most [...]
One very valuable assignment that any dog can directly affect its humans in is to be a Pet Therapy Dog. Eventually, therapy dogs become integral to the patient’s recovery process. Sometimes, even the participation of a therapy dog has led to a renewal of hope in a patient about to abandon all hope in medical [...]
Dog obedience training is not just for pure bred show dogs, or dogs in military missions, public service or police work. Obedience training should be for all dogs. It is surprising that so many owners of mixed-breed dogs feel that their dog isn’t worth giving any formal obedience training. While it is true that many [...]
PBC00-10782 is a no-bark control collar that is designed using the innovative nano technology and works based on the principle of offering static electric shock by sensing the vibration and sound of the dog’s bark. This collar has been designed specifically for small breeds, and it works on an automatic basis, adjusting its own intensity [...]
There are many dog breeds eager for the opportunity to hoard obedience points, or round up sheep. But there are only a few that are eager to do it to please their masters to the umost level, and the shetland sheepdog has got to be one of them!
On sight, the breed’s luxurious coat is the [...]
Dogs are instinctively an aggressive kind of animal. They evolved as pack animals who used their aggressive instincts to hunt for their prey and to protect their den and pack mates from danger. Although in the course of their evolution aggressive behavior in dogs was necessary to their very survival, in today’s society our dogs [...]
If you are planning to get an indoors dog (or already have one), you will need to get educated in housebreaking, which is also known as housetraining. It is not hard, nor is messy, but it will need honest effort on your part. It also does not take an awful lot fo time, but [...]
