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Dog Behavior Training From An Early Age

April 12, 2010

It is important to begin your Dog Behavior Training From An Early Age. By the time you have your dog its behavior will have already been greatly influenced by his mother and his siblings.
Here’s an example: If his mother barked to attract some attention, her puppies will probably behave in the exact same way. The [...]

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Dog Behavior Training For Your New Pet

April 12, 2010

Some of us might remember that old song, “How Much Is That Puppy In The Window?” Even those that don’t recollect this once popular tune can certainly relate to the experience of simply falling in love with every cute little puppy you encounter.
It doesn’t take long to figure out where the phrase “puppy dog eyes” [...]

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Dog Behavior Problems

April 12, 2010

How many times have I hear fellow dog owners say, “I hate it when he barks non stop… or he utterly embarrassed me when he mounts people’s leg”. Dog owners usually have no problems to fill in tons of their dog behavioral problems into the above statements.
I have to admit that I [...]

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Training your dog the reward training way

April 11, 2010

Reward training is often seen as the most modern method of training a dog, but reward training is probably much older than other methods of dog training. It is possible that reward training for dogs has been around as long as there have been dogs to train. Early humans probably used some informal [...]

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Dog training – Leash/collar training

April 11, 2010

There are many different styles of dog training, and finding the one that works best for you is important for creating a dog that is a talented, loyal and faithful member of the family. All successful methods of dog training work to reinforce the relationship between dog and handler, and the foundation of any [...]

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Dealing with a lonely dog

April 7, 2010

Our dogs are pack animals. They’re highly sociable creatures with a genuine need to socialize and interact. Because we humans have done such a bang-up job in domesticating our canine friends, socialization with other dogs isn’t enough for your friend: you are the center of your dog’s world. She needs to spend time with you. [...]

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Separation Anxiety

April 5, 2010

Separation anxiety is one of the most common problems that dogs develop. It’s an anxiety disorder, and is defined as a state of intense panic brought on by the dog’s isolation/separation from her owner. In other words: when you leave for work in the morning, your dog is plunged into a [...]

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Recognizing, preventing, and handling dog aggression

April 3, 2010

A dog is an instinctively aggressive creature. In the wild, aggression came in very handy: dogs needed aggression to hunt, to defend themselves from other creatures, and to defend resources such as food, a place to sleep, and a mate. Selective breeding over the centuries has minimized and refined this trait significantly, but there’s just [...]

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Barking dogs, Understanding it and dealing with it

March 31, 2010

Some owners seem to want their dogs to stop barking, period: a good dog is a quiet dog, and the only time that barking’s permitted is when there’s a man in a black balaclava and stripy prison outfit, clutching a haversack marked ‘Swag’, clambering in through your bedroom window. Dogs don’t [...]

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Stop Dog Digging

March 31, 2010

There are two extremes of opinion when it comes to dogs and their digging habits: one, that a dog is a dog, and we should permit him to express his true canine nature by allowing him free reign over the yard and flowerbeds; and two, that a flowerbed is a flowerbed, and no dog should [...]

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