For a very good guide to all sorts of dog training processes and dog behavior challenges, I use and recommend Clickertraining ...that link goes to the description of this terrific ebook you download immediately, wherever you are! -- Rosana

There is a lot that can be said about training a dog to come when called, and I’ve written about it before, but in this article I am going to focus on something I just learned from Patricia McConnell’s excellent book, For the Love of a Dog, which I review here.

She writes quite a lot in this book about the many ways that dogs and humans can misunderstand each other. One example often takes place when people are calling their dogs to come to them — the recall is a term often used to describe this.

She says it so well, I will quote a bit: Read the rest of this entry