Dogs Training Blog

I have the opportunity to get a yellow lab and I know nothing about how to train them. I have always had small dogs when living at home with my parents. They were born on Halloween so I have several weeks before they are ready. Are there any secrets to training a lab? We both [...]

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this question is similar to my first but i wanted to give more info.But i would like to either get a german shepherd or american pittbull terrier. The dog would mainly be inside with a medium sized fenced yard out back. Im a junior in college soo i share the house with 3 other people. [...]

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from what i have read. the normal methods doesn’t work so well. Border Collies are herding dogs so they are training at doing things so apparently they are hardwired to obey people. so i need to know how to train him. he’s 8 weeks old. male. pure bred. please list the methods or tips or [...]

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I want one that wont try to run away, very affectionate, can be active but mostly lazy, one that will hangout on the beach and not run(its a private beach), also a “velcro” dogI have had dogs before and trained them a lot of tricks(like crawl, bow, play dead, sit, stay, come, down, etc.)by mastiff [...]

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I am thinking about bringing a puppy into our family..I am a full time stay at home mom with my almost 14month old son, He is walking now. I’m Wanting to know the pro’s and con’s of raising a puppy & young child???My husband and I have talked about it, and he said it is [...]

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This was posted by a contact I have on another forum and I said I would share this here too. I’ll be honest I’ve never liked Petsmart but for different reasonsThis is in Utah I believe________________________________________________This past weekend had to kennel my Pit/Lab mix, I decided to take him to the local Petsmart kennel that [...]

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this question is similar to my first but i wanted to give more info.But i would like to either get a german shepherd or american pittbull terrier. The dog would mainly be inside with a medium sized fenced yard out back. Im a junior in college soo i share the house with 3 other people. [...]

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i have a dog, a female pomerainian that i’ve had for 6 years. ive had her since she was 6 weeks old. i always spoiled her. she goes everywhere with me, and i give her a ton of love and attention. now, today i got a chiuahauha, a female. shes 10 weeks. my pom is [...]

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I have a 1 year old labrador retriever who is very motivated by food. She is well behave but when I want to teach her a new trick she gets so excited about the food it’s very hard to settle her down. Then after she has learned a trick like down for instance she is [...]

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I have a 3 1/2 yr old mini dachshund whom started off her potty training using wee wee pads because we lived in an apt. Big mistake! Just when I think she has the whole potty training thing down, she pees and/or poops in the house again. She always has access to go outside. The [...]

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Ok so I have a yorkie-poo and me and my family got her about a year and a half ago. We know for sure that she’s been in good care for her whole entire life but she gets SO possessive over food ESPEACILLY meat. Like if you give her a bone she really likes and [...]

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I’ve searched the web and amazon.com and found several places to get the collar but no books on how to use them. I know police dogs are trained with them so surely the documentation on how to properly train a dog using one exists somewhere. More: continued here

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Whenever people come over or she is outside with other people and their dogs-like dog parks-the rules go out the window. She wont even sit when I tell her to! She’s so disobedient that it looks like she has no training at all. Why does she do this and what can I do to fix [...]

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