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Crate Training Tips - How to crate train your dog
A crate is a valuable and useful training tool. Its main purpose is to provide security, safety and protection for short term confinement while training a puppy or new dog about its own and house boundaries. A crate may look like a jail cell, but when used properly is your dog’s natural den – a personal space where he’ll feels secure and...

“Sit Up” Buddy: Training Your Dog To Sit Like You
The trick of “sitting up” is easily taught to small dogs, but should try not be included in a big dog’s education, as it is difficult for them to preserve their balance. The training of sitting up is one of the first tricks to teach and forms the groundwork for many other dog tricks. To train a dog to sit up, prepare some treats as a reward, and...

Some Advanced Dog Training Points you should know about CONDITIONING YOUR DOG
Akeisha wrote to me with some very good questions. I’ve included her letter (and my responses) below: [Akeisha] Hi its Akeisha again. I do see what you mean if it is on all the time the dog will soon forget it is on and then will behave regardless. Ok, so the dog never wears a buckle collar again? This is what irks me. I want to be able to...


Top Ten Dog Training Mistakes
If you are in the process of training your dog or considering it, then you might like to check the following list to ensure that you are not making one of the common mistakes. 1) Giving different words for the same command. If you want your dog to obey your commands, you must be consistent with the words that you use. For example you may...

Reward Train Your Dog
Reward training is commonly thought of as a modern method of training a dog, but reward training is actually much older than you probably think, when compared to other methods of dog training. Many principles of modern reward training date back many decades. It is possible that reward training for dogs has been around as long as there have...

Dog Training Basics - Common Commands
A calm, obedient and faithful dog – it’s what we all want, right? To begin with, obedient and trained dogs are happier dogs, less likely to get into tussles with people or with other dogs. Another reason is that many communities require that the dogs living in their neighborhoods be well trained. This is especially true for many breeds thought to...



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