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Prevent Your Puppy From Jumping Up On People, Tugging The Leash And Roaming Around Dangerously

Prevent Your Puppy From Jumping Up On People, Tugging The Leash And Roaming Around Dangerously

Unfortunately, eliminating problem behaviors is one thing that most dog owners eventually face. Here we will focus on a few of the most commonly encountered behavior problems. Problem #1 – Jumping up on people One of the most frequently cited problems with dogs is that of jumping up on people. Unfortunately, this is one of [...]

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Eight Starter Training Tips

Eight Starter Training Tips

Be Positive –  It is necessary to use positive reinforcement when you train your dog or puppy by offering some dog treats and a lot of praise if he performs something correctly.  During the initial training sessions you can offer both verbal praise as well as treats. Remember, this is fun! Firm and Friendly –  When you [...]

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Barking Behavior

Barking Behavior

Control Your Dog’s Barking Expecting your dog not to bark is unrealistic. Dogs bark as a means of communication, the same way humans talk.  If you can’t handle noise, and would rather have a pet who’s deathly silent though out the day, you should probably get a cat. Dogs by their very nature, are noisy, [...]

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Paper Training Your Puppy

Paper Training Your Puppy

If you choose to paper train your puppy or dog in an attempt to house training them, there are a few methods that work well.  First, pick one room where your puppy will be and cover the entire floor with newspaper.  Doing this, your puppy will only be able to go on the paper and [...]

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Train Your Puppy To Sit

Train Your Puppy To Sit

Teaching your dog to sit is one of the most basic, important, and fortunately easy, things you can do.  Even a relatively young puppy can learn this trick after a few sessions, and a quick learner can learn to sit after only a few minutes.  Also, learning to sit is one of the most important, [...]

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Crate Training Your Puppy

Crate Training Your Puppy

        A crate for a dog is the domestic version of a den.  Long before dogs became domesticated, they used their den when they needed privacy, and seclusion.  Your pet dog has evolved to a state of near complete domestication, but some of those wild traits still remain. The desire for a [...]

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Chewing Habit

Training your puppy not to chew up the house is sometimes a difficult job.  Chewing objects is an inevitable part of a young puppies’ life and this exploration can lead to an injured puppy or damaged property in your house. As puppies begin to teeth they want to chew on just about anything. If you are [...]

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Puppy Jumping

Puppy Jumping

As a little bundle of fur, there’s not a lot of harm that your puppy can do to you when he jumps up on you in excitement as soon as you walk in the door. A year from now, however it could be a different story altogether. Jumping, in a puppy, no matter what the [...]

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House Training

House Training

If you’ve just become the owner of a brand new pup, the first item on your agenda is, no doubt, house training. Pups need to eliminate as many as as six times a day, and the sooner you begin the house training process, the less damage your carpets and furnishings will suffer! Take heart, though. [...]

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