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Dogs & Picnics: Methods for Getting Your Food-Obsessed Dog to Ignore Picnics

Dogs & Picnics: Methods for Getting Your Food-Obsessed Dog to Ignore Picnics After long, dreadful winters, the perfect cure for a miserable year is toasty, divine summer. The sun, the fun, and your dog on the run…. towards someone else’s picnic! Yikes, again? Sure, most people don’t mind tossing some chunks of burnt BBQ chicken to your Food-Obsessed Dog, but it is pretty embarrassing for you, but more than that, …

How to Prepare Your Dog for the Arrival of A New Baby

by Dennis Nguyen

How to Prepare Your Dog for the Arrival of A New Baby It’s always very awkward having to relegate one member of the family to the bench to make room for the new one. This often breeds a lot of resentment, jealousy and mild hair pulling. However, if the older siblings are taught how to care for the young one, they become more involved and you are able to find …

How To Train A Puppy To Sleep Through The Night

by Dennis Nguyen

bed for old dog--twitch in sleep, train a puppy to sleep through the night

How To Train A Puppy To Sleep Through The Night Here is something most dog owners don’t know: dogs are nocturnal. Naturally, a dog would do its best work (which used to be hunting) at night, when the smaller more vulnerable creatures come out to play. In our homes, you may have noticed that your dog is very active at night. I’ve heard many people complain that their dogs are …

How to Train Your Dog to Run with You

by Dennis Nguyen

How to Train Your Dog to Run with You One of the things I love about dogs is that they force us to become more active. Having to take your dog on a walk every day will give you the required minimum of 30 minutes of cardio doctors recommend. If you already have an active lifestyle and you want your dog to be a part of that, your fitness will …

Introduction to Dog Training: 7 Most Popular Methods

by Dennis Nguyen

Introduction to Dog Training: 7 Most Popular Methods Remember when you were a kid and you asked for a dog, your mum would tell you how stressful it was looking after one? But you wanted one anyway, so now here we are. Congratulations on becoming a dog owner, or seriously considering it. It really is a great experience and worth every moment of it, but there is something crucial you …

Positive Reinforcement Dog Training: What is it? Why Does It Work?

by Dennis Nguyen

Positive Reinforcement Dog Training: What is it? Why Does It Work? No matter what the dolphin aficionados say, we know that dogs are the most intelligent animals on the planet. Their range of understanding is phenomenal once developed, but even more, is their emotional sophistication. When training dogs, it is easy to forget dogs have real, developed feelings, which will impact the way they follow or react to instructions. As …

Resource Guarding In Dogs; How to Avoid & Overcome It

by Dennis Nguyen

Resource Guarding: What It Is, How to Avoid It & How to Overcome It Saying a dog can be overprotective with food is like saying it gets wet when it rains. Yet, many owners are still surprised when it happens (including me). You would think that the same person who put the food in their bowl should be able to pat them while they eat, but no, for some reason, …

Separation Anxiety: What It Is, How to Avoid it & How to Overcome It

by Dennis Nguyen

Separation Anxiety: What It Is, How to Avoid it & How to Overcome It Puppies are clingy little things and that is one of the things we love about them. Man’s second favorite pet on the other hand only plays with you when it wants food, yeah I’m talking about your whiskers! However, despite our fondness for attention-seeking canines, what happens when it becomes too much? What happens if your …

The Importance of Training Your Dog To Be Independent

by Dennis Nguyen

The Importance of Training Your Dog To Be Independent Was I the only one who got freaked out by the movie ‘The Secret Life of Pets’? Oh, don’t get me wrong, it was a great movie and I laughed so hard a little pee came out (maybe I need to be housetrained). What bothered me was this looming question: what does my dog do when I’m not at home? How …

Tips for Handling An Aggressive Dog

by Dennis Nguyen

Tips for Handling An Aggressive Dog Don’t you find it so annoying when you try to tell people something but everything you say seems to fall on deaf ears, and people think you’re crazy? You tell them your dog is sweet and charming, but nobody believes you, because well, she just tried to chump off another dog’s ear. It’s just so weird though: your dog is very pleasant at home, …