Have you ever been out walking with your dog when you spot one or more other dogs, off-leash and with or without an owner, coming towards you? Here’s a tip for handling that situation. Of course, if your dog is perfectly socialized, there probably won’t be any issue. Or if you know those dogs and everybody is friends. But what if your dog doesn’t like other dogs in his face, like our LarryDog, or is afraid of them? Read the rest of this entry
Here’s a dog training tip that we’ve done with every dog we’ve ever owned. Of course, they know the sit. Well, as we prepare their dinner plates — or breakfast plates for that matter — they can get rather excited.
So at one point or another in the process, whoever is doing the feeding asks the dogs to sit. LarryDog is almost 14 and sitting is getting a little harder for him on our tile floor, so we don’t usually ask him till just before the food is going on the floor.
I’m not sure if you can see LarryDog’s tongue, but it is sticking out a bit as he waits! Read the rest of this entry
Here’s a good way to get your dog to stop barking when someone comes to your home. It will take some time and a friend, but it might just rid you of a very annoying habit that many dogs have.
Does your dog bark when you have a knock at the door? Follow this simple plan to end excessive barking at the door.
Many dogs will bark when they hear a knock at the door. This is probably to announce the arrival of a new person to their territory. They learn pretty quickly that a knock on the door is quickly followed by a visitor.
Does your dog pull on leash? If not, consider yourself lucky (or skilled!) and don’t bother listening to this short audio. It outlines how you can train your dog to stop pulling on leash…. That link takes you to the page on this website where you can read the article that this is based on.
Pulling on leash is a widespread problem, and I have found with my own dogs that it takes a certain amount of determination on my part to overcome it!
If you’d like to download the sound file, here it is. Just right-click or whatever Mac users do, to save it:
