Dogs Training Blog

My best friend’s neighbor has owned 2 pitbulls for several years. They are the sweetest dogs and have always been one of the reasons I changed my attitudes about pitbulls in general. Well, 2 days ago one of them escaped from under the fence, dug under my my best friend’s, dragged out his 2 year [...]

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she is so old! she is about 14…there is no way on earth to train her..what do we do? she is ruining the carpet! so how do we get her to not go in the house? we put her out a lot.. More: continued here

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Some how my clientele is thinking I am a free advice behaviorist dog trainer? Where did this come from? I am getting lots of emails with questions with training advice, but they don’t follow through on the sessions. They expect me to come forth with all the techniques via email without the training sessions cost [...]

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We got this dog abou half a year ago now. She’s a lovely dog and great with the kids, but, she pee’s on the floor if we go out, or if we go to bed in the morning thee is pee and most of the time poo.. But when we let her out she will [...]

Read the rest of Open Question: I have a german sheppard and is in desperate need of help or we will have to get rid of her.?

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my daughter is 12 going to be 13 at the end of this month she loves dog agility we own a 1 and turing 2 in feb. old corgi they are both great at agility our corgi just loves it!! but we need classes that can be indoor or in a fenced area(he loves running [...]

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I want to train my brothers dog Merle because both of my brother’s dogs are not. His other dog Rufus is a boxer! I was there today and he jump on me and barks. If I put my knee up he’ll stop jumping on me!But Merle doesn’t, He likes to play with his toys! More: [...]

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I’m going to train my 1 1/2 year old puppy to be a therapy dog. I’ve looked at all the websites that say what i need to train her, but i was wondering if there are special training classes i can take with my dog to? More: continued here

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Ok well she is very well trained most of the time she listens to me when I give commands. But when she gets caught in the act of digging holes for example and she feels that I get mad she runs. Well when I get ahold of her and pop her on the nose, she [...]

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She is a 10 month old lab/german shepard mix. I usually go to school for about 5 hours a day max, and for every time I am gone, all she will do is sit at the door she last saw me, cry, bark, and pee and poop everywhere. When she is with me, she NEVER [...]

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We picked up a Lab puppy at the shelter about 3 1/2 months ago, and we’ve found that he is terrified of water. The first time we gave him a bath, he freaked out so bad he was in convulsions and was desperately trying to escape.Since then, he’s gotten 3 baths and he gets a [...]

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I have a puppy and it is 10 weeks old..I want to know if it is normal for him to bite my hand kind of hard and when I think we are playing he might think we are fighting. Should i stop playing with him kind of rough? Also when I read online they say [...]

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I have a 150 boarding/breeding/showing kennel, with loud dogs, and debarked dogs that whisper their barks. (I’ve bred and trained over 30 years) The loud ones get scolded. The debarked ones, are allowed to bark their brains out…all they want, happily, bark bark bark….. they wag their tails, strut their stuff, paw the ground…and act [...]

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Here’s my problem:There’s a big field of grass close to my home. Whenever I release my dog on that field, it immediately gets excited and runs away and is very likely to run off the grass and on the street. By the time he leaves the grass, he’s already far away. And although he can [...]

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