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How to Teach your Dog to Touch or Target
If you want your dog to follow your hand cues, you can teach him to follow your hand and touch it. This technique also reduces the use of the treat…
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How to Teach your Dog you are in Charge
A dog owner once explained to us his own way of handling the problem of walking his dog—after calling us in to help him teach his dog, Toby, to walk…
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How to Teach your Dog the “Drop” Command
Many people fail to see how having a dog drop on command can be beneficial, but teaching a dog to "drop stay" is one of the most useful things a…
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How to Teach your Dog the “Stay” Command
One of the main reasons for teaching your pup the "stay" command is to make handling it easier—when it is still young, and also when it is a grown dog.…
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How to Teach your Dog to come when Called
We firmly believe that one of the most important things a dog can learn is to come whenever it is called (the "recall", as we call it). After all, if…
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How to Teach your Dog to Distinguish Scents
Getting a dog to distinguish scents is probably one of the most difficult training exercises. Dogs normally do this as a matter of course, but on an instinctive level only.…
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How to Teach your dog to walk Correctly on the Lead
To start teaching your dog using this method, you will need a check chain that fits it correctly, and a 6-ft (2-m) long webbing lead. Place the dog on-lead. Anchor…
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How to Teach your Dog to Fetch or Retrieve
Fetching is a natural thing for most dogs to do, especially those that were bred specifically for this purpose. The retrieval breeds are the Labrador, the golden retriever and the…
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How to Train your Dog for Leash-less Walking
The best time to teach your dog to walk with you without a leash is between ten weeks and four months, when he wants to follow you— before adolescence and…
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How to Train your Dog regarding House Manners
My mother grew up in England and had her first child during World War II. She tells of "nannies" who specialized in toilet training children before they were a year…
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How to Train your Dog to be Alone
Moms and their babies belong together. For most of us, it's difficult to move our babies into their own beds or into their own rooms. There are several good books…
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How to Train your Dog to be more Devoted and Attentive
You may be one of those unfortunate dog owners who often laments, "I wish I could make my dog more devoted and attentive!" The good news is that you can…
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How to Train your Dog to be not as Leash Aggressive
Leash aggression is caused, for the most part, by frustration. It occurs when a dog pulls hard on the leash trying to get to another dog. He's not able to…
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How to train your Dog to Behave when Encountering Strangers
In order to be safe in this new world, your little guy should be taught to ignore other dogs and people until you give the okay. We may want our…
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How to Train your Dog to find Things
Someone once said to us that a dog's sense of smell, compared to a human's, was like the difference between an envelope and a stamp—the human's olfactory sense being the…
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How to Train your Dog to Share
Ask any parent what his or her toddler's favorite word is, and he or she will likely say that it's "mine," quickly followed by the word "no." After a few…
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How to Train your Dog to lie Down
Here is another exercise that your dog already knows. However, just because he knows how to lie down doesn't mean it's easy to perform on cue. Many dogs resist being…
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How to Train your Dog to leave Things Alone
This is a nice exercise that comes in very handy if you drop a steak or pass a dead skunk. It tells your dog that whatever he's looking at is…
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How to Train your Dog to Master the off-lead “recall”
The dog's popularity as a pet is increasing constantly. So, too, is controversy about which aspects of dog behavior are acceptable to the general public, and which are not. More…
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How to Train your Dog using Effective body language
Your body language may have as much of an effect on the dog you are training as the spoken language you are using. In some cases, it may have even…