Dogs Training Blog

And I don’t mean stubborn or hard to train, just a dog you saw no sign of thought in.Once my mom and I were driving home, and this dog was trailing a broken leash behind it running in the road. The darn thing was trying to play with the cars! We pulled over and tried [...]

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My neighbor’s elderly parents have a little mixed breed dog (part poodle, part something else) who can no longer take care of it, and she was going to take it to the pound. I offered to adopt it instead. The dog is very sweet, but has never been trained or housebroken. Will she be too [...]

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My brother got a labrador puppy a few months ago to be with him at college, but then he asked my parents to take care of him for a while. We didn’t think it was going to be that bad however, the dog pees and poops all throughout the house! Were at a lost, we [...]

Read the rest of Open Question: Labrador puppy, training help??!?

I currently own a 2-year old Min Pin (4.5 pounds) and my husband wants to get a bigger dog so he can run and work out with it. He wants to get a German Shepherd, but they are so expensive here (we live in Hawaii). Instead, we found a breeder and we looked into getting [...]

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Is there one thing you would really like to change about your dog?Tori is 95% obedient, but the 5% is definitely a work in progress. She has a high prey drive and crashes through bushes after rabbits/foxes, splashes her way up streams after ducks and lives in hope of catching a squirrel. Tori is temporarily [...]

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My 8 Month Old female Pitbull/Jack Russell Terrier mix named coco has killed squirrels at her previous home. She was also abused there as well. I did not aquire her from a shelter but rather from the people she was being abused by. I dont have any contact with those people so she never see’s [...]

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Well,I have a maltese named Riley and iI have had him since March and Im my house,My living room,kitchen,and playroom are together and you can just walk in from each room but,my other rooms my dog goes in there and uses the bathroom in the floor. i have a puppy pad in the living room [...]

Read the rest of Open Question: How do you train a Maltese dog?

My roommates have a dog who I think might be mistreated. He is let out about twice a day to go to the bathroom, and he might get one long walk about once a week when his owners have time. He is in his crate most of the day while they are in class or [...]

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My boston terrier gets scared when I try to teach him obedience. Which makes training tricks harder because I get out a treat and he does not want it when I try to teach him circle he doesnt go after the treat he sits there, puts his ears back, open his eyes wide, and start [...]

Read the rest of Open Question: My dog gets scared when I teach him obedience for no reason, what should I do?

I live in a house with my boyfriend and another roommate. My boyfriend and I have our own dog to take care of. Our roommate has a little dog of his own also. This is where it gets messy. He does not devote ANY time to the dog. He always leaves and doesn’t come back [...]

Read the rest of Open Question: I really need advice. BAD! Please help?

Hi All,I really need some help here. I contacted one of the top Siberian Husky breeders in the U.S. to see if they had any young adults available to pet homes, as I wanted to get my female Siberian a male companion. I was told that they had a 1.5 year old male that was [...]

Read the rest of Open Question: Should I keep the dog?

I’m just a normal girl.But sometimes things that you can’t explain happen. I’m not into the occult or anything like that but these things just happen.The first time I remember it happening I was about 6. My gran was coming on the train to visit me later that day, so to pass the time I [...]

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I live in a medium sized two story row house with a small fenced in backyard. I want a dog that will curl up and veg with me but I also want to play fetch and go to the dog park and romp around. I love both breeds but can not decide which one to [...]

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Ok so I have a question about bread. I give my dogs bread with their medecine (pills) because its the only thing they take it with, I dont give them raw meat. They love bread too. A guy that my family knows, who trains and breeds German Shepherds said that bread rots the dogs teeth. [...]

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