When Pigs Fly! Training Success with Impossible Dogs… Control Unleashed… Learning Games… Oh Behave!… How to Run a Dog Business… These are the top sellers at Dogwise for the first half of this year. (What, this year is more than half over? How did that happen?)
When Pigs Fly! Training Success with Impossible Dogs, by [...]

Clicker training and agility have a lot in common — they are both lots of fun –  and Click and Play Agility, by Angelica Steinker, brings the two worlds together. But even if you don’t do agility, the book has a lot of good ideas for ways to play with your dog.
Be warned, though, [...]

Summertime coming up! And thousands upon thousands of family dogs will pile in the car, maybe with the kids (and sometimes the cat or hamster) and head out to go camping, visit Grandma or in reverse visit the grandkids, or just to have a good time. Some dog training in advance will help everyone have more fun and be safer.

First, brush up on the good old basics: sit, stay, down, come. You may well be using them every day at home, but an interesting thing about how dogs learn is that it tends to be very location-specific. In other words, if Fluffy sits beautifully in the kitchen, she may not when outside on the patio, let alone in a completely unfamiliar situation with distractions.

So do some very simple training, on these basics, but with a twist: do it in a variety of places. Click the title to read more…

Do you have a copy of Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats? Do you pull it out when one of your dogs or cats shows a worrisome symptom? Do you read the reference sections for fun? Do you cook from its recipe section? Do you refuse to lend it [...]

Dogwise recently announced that the new 2008 edition of Terry Ryan’s Coaching People to Train Their Dogs is available now. If you haven’t heard of Terry Ryan, she is a renowned dog trainer whose books, lectures, and workshops have long been focused on teaching dog trainers how to teach people to train their dogs. [...]

The vast majority of dogs are fed commercial pet food. Whether it’s canned, bagged, or semi-moist, until recently dog owners have just grabbed their dog food off the grocery store or pet store shelves. Most still do.
Happily for the dogs, in the past few years, more and more dog owners have begun to realize that [...]

Have you heard of Dogwise? I sometimes call it the Amazon of dog information, and I must admit I love it.
Dogwise carries dog books and DVDs that you can find nowhere else, including Amazon. With such a wide selection (over 2000 items), it’s easy to find what you need. Owned by a family who [...]

I’ve been reading a really good book on dogs and yards and gardens, Dog Friendly Gardens, Garden Friendly Dogs by Cheryl Smith. The link takes you to my review of it on this site.
The author is an experienced dog trainer who has written dog training books. She is also a Master Gardener.
At this time of [...]