Train Your Dog Month is January. I’m doing my bit by picking up again on clickertraining Lola, and she and I are having great fun with it. I’ll tell you a bit more about this special month and also share a delightful video of one puppy showing another one how to go down stairs.

National Train Your Dog Month is a website put together by the Association of Professional Dog Trainers, and it’s worth a good look. There’s a calendar of webinars you can attend, plus dog training tips, ways to promote dog training in your community, and more. For example, here’s a link to a page about 25 uses for Sit.

With this being the start of the year, it’s a good time to make resolutions, even if it’s not the first day of the year! You can get some ideas from that site, or for that matter, from this site right here. Poke around in the menu!

And for a bit more inspiration, here’s a charming little video about how a six-month-old puppy trained a two-month-old: