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When You Should Start Training Your Puppy

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 When You Should Start Training Your Puppy  Ask a group of dog trainers when the best age is to train a puppy and you may get several different answers. This is because the standards for dog training has gone through such an evolution over the years: industry techniques that were common twenty years ago are now regarded as cruel and unusual for today’s trainers. This is especially true when discussing the ideal age to start

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Dog Training | Dog Boarding | Staten Island NY

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Dog Urine Marking | Important Behind-the-Scene Communication

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Dog Urine Marking: Important Behind-the-Scene Communication!  Urine, often the source of woe for many homeowners training a new dog, is also getting recognition as a vital communication tool for canines.  The importance behind your dog lifting their leg has gone unstudied for quite a while, but recent research has begun to draw back the curtain on this golden language style.  If this is news to you, join the discussion about the behavioral background of urine

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Top 10 Things Humans Do That Dogs Hate

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 Top 10 Things Humans Do That Dogs Hate    Relationships between humans and dogs can be complex. If you don’t take the time to adjust your behavior when owning a dog, then you could find that your bond is never able to reach its full potential. A loving and compassionate relationship with your dog can be hugely rewarding, and you can achieve this largely by cutting out many of the behaviors that make dogs anxious,

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Are Dogs Pack Animals?

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 Are Dogs Pack Animals?    In the last decade, the mantra of many dog trainers has been the same: be the leader of your pack.  This rule has remained constant due to the belief dogs are no different than the wolves they evolved from.  Despite dogs now coming in a range of sizes, from teacup to small pony, we remain sure that there is a wolf in dog’s clothing waiting in our living room. Recent

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Why Dogs Eat Grass?

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Why Dogs Eat Grass?    Your dog does some very quirky things – they prefer sitting on you instead of next to you, they never seem to remember that the glass door needs to be open in order to walk through it, and they love to eat weird things.  When those weird things include grass and other plants, you start to wonder if maybe your dog is ill, weird, or needs a therapist.  We did

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Leash Reactive Dogs

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   Leash Reactive Dogs    Frequent dog walkers know leash reactive dogs even if they’ve never had a name for them: as soon as the harness or leash goes on, they go on red alert.  From the squirrel in the yard twenty meters away to the mailman about to pass them on the sidewalk, leash reactive dogs will try to be confrontational with anything that moves.   While the cause for leash reactivity are many and

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When Not to Feel Guilty for Training Management

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   When Not to Feel Guilty for Training Management    My bulldog, lovely bumble-foot that she is, loves chasing squirrels.  Despite being an extremely polite walking partner, she cannot resist a good heart-stopping scramble for a small mammal that she has no idea what to do with.  I say this because she has never once, in her fourteen years, caught a single squirrel.  I have also never attempted to train her out of these last-minute

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Making Peace with Multiple Dogs

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 Making Peace with Multiple Dogs    No matter how many dog pileups are in your bed, how many wet-nosed kisses you get every day, or how many wagging tails can get going, any pet parent of multiple dogs can tell you that having multiples is no easy feat.  From buying enough food for all the furry family members to breaking up disagreements, keeping the peace in an extra dog-friendly household is a full-time job.  Here

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