The last two articles in my dog training tips have covered how to teach your dog or puppy to sit. This is one of the most commonly taught commands or cues. Now here are some ways that you can use the sit in daily life. If you have some favorite ways that I haven’t mentioned, [...]
You likely know that chocolate isn’t good for dogs. In fact, it can kill them. But how much chocolate does it take? I’ve seen more than one panicked post on a dog forum when someone’s dog has just eaten some chocolate.
So I was pleased to come across a cute chart on the National Geographic website, [...]
Teaching the Sit with a Lure and a Clicker
This dog training tip uses clicker training methods. if you aren’t familiar with clickers, you can get a free copy of my ebook Seven Steps to Clicker Training Success with Your Dog by subscribing to my weekly email newsletter. The link takes you to the page where [...]
Dogwise, an online bookstore and publisher, is a sort of Amazon for dogs. With their fingers on the pulse of what dog books people are buying, they are in a good position to predict trends. But several books surprised them in 2008 by selling well. Here is their list of four surprises. Since a Basenji [...]
The sit is good for a first thing to teach your puppy or dog, so in this series of dog training tips I’m making it one of the first topics.
Why start with the sit? Here are five reasons.
It’s easy to teach a dog.
You’ll be using it with the other commands.
Even very young puppies can [...]
I love the dog training revolution that is bringing more and more dog trainers and dog owners to use positive, pain-free methods. This is part of a movement that can be traced back over twenty years to several innovative dog trainers. One of them is Dr. Ian Dunbar, veterinarian, dog behavior researcher, creator of numerous [...]
“Dog training tips” is one of the phrases that bring people to this website. So I’m going to do a weekly series, here in the blog, on all sorts of tips for dog training. My plan is to post a tip once a week, and do at least one other dog-related article each week. The [...]
Every now and then I go take a look at the statistics about who is viewing this website. It’s kind of a one-way street, to write websites and blogs, so it’s fun to see some evidence that there really ARE people out there reading this site and training their dogs, people who are interested in [...]
One evening recently, my husband and I happened to watch a BBC documentary on dogs detecting cancer. The program described some small studies and some experiences of dog owners. Most interesting to me was that clicker training was used to teach the dogs to detect cancer.
Here is how they did it in a study in [...]
I’m just back from a couple of weeks visiting family and friends in northern California. I visited with a dog walker in San Francisco, a young couple with small kids and a patient dog, a woman who has two Cairn Terriers, and several pet-less friends (poor dears). So fortunately I wasn’t deprived of dogs. In [...]