UPDATE May 2009: Over 67,000 people have seen it now!

I also have put it on a variety of lesser-known video websites. Here it is from a site I like called 5min.com, which only has how-to videos:

On the video screen, one of the little icons on the lower left says Links. If you click on that, you will see a link to my potty training page on this website and to an excellent article, “Errorless Housetraining” by Ian Dunbar.

Sometimes I wonder if I spend too much time on potty training / housetraining / housebreaking puppies, but it’s sad how many people never quite get their dogs properly trained, so this is one way I feel I can help dogs! Many inadequately housetrained puppies end up being given away or worse. If you have a blog or website related to dogs in any way, you are very welcome to embed the code from Youtube or 5min.com in your site.

Potty Train Your Puppy Video is a post from: Training Dogs Blog

I’m somewhere in the middle. I have at times prepared totally homemade food for my dogs, but at present I’m feeding them a good quality dry dog food and supplementing that with Dr. Pitcairn’s Fresh Meat Supplement for Dog Kibble, from the book Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats… the link takes you to my recent review of the book. It’s got a lot more in it that just dog food recipes, but it’s worth buying for those alone.

It was time to mix up a new batch of the fresh meat supplement the other day, so I snagged my husband and his camera to shoot the process. I edited it, and so here is a video about how I made it:

For some odd reason, sometimes the link to Youtube will indicate that the video is no longer available when it is. If that happens, click on Menu in the lower right corner of the video, copy the url to your clipboard, paste it into your browser. Then you can watch at Youtube.

A few comments about the program: I didn’t give all the exact quantities, particularly not for Dr. Pitcairn’s Healthy Powder, and they really do matter. If you want to try making a meat supplement for the dry food you feed, I think the paperback book, which sells for under $20, is a great investment, specially since it has so much more useful information of all sorts.

Also, there are numerous approaches to how to go about feeding your dog the optimum diet. (Here’s my review of Dog Food Secrets, which is an extremely well promoted ebook on this topic. In a nutshell, I say that I disliked its scary sales page but found the ebook to be useful and well balanced.) Some people think Dr. Pitcairn uses too many grains, for example. My take on all this is that these differences are pretty minor compared to the difference between feeding all or partly a homemade diet for your dogs and feeding ordinary cheap-o dog kibble.

So for more information on Dr. Pitcairn’s useful recipes for dogs and cats, get yourself a copy of Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats. That link takes you to Dogwise, and here it is for Amazon:

It’s also quite widely available at bookstores and pet stores.

Making Dr. Pitcairn’s Fresh Meat Supplement for Dog Kibble is a post from: Training Dogs Blog

Puppies, Just Puppies! is a post from: Training Dogs Blog

Here’s the link to my review of the set of dog training videos featuring Dove Cresswell. On that page, a ways down, there are links to reviews I did of three of the short videos:

* Puppy House Training / Potty Training

* Dog Obedience Training

* Crate Training

I think these would be outstanding to use with children, but you don’t have to be a kid to appreciate clear, basic instruction. One neat feature is that once you’ve bought them you can view the videos from any computer (assuming you can remember your username and password), so you can be at a friend’s house and watch them together.

The Online Dog Training Videos of Dove Cresswell is a post from: Training Dogs Blog