Behavior
Dog Fights
When siblings skirmish I’ve been through it too many times—two dogs who get along beautifully suddenly don’t. It happened again last Sunday when 25 pound, 13 year-old Kochi, and 65…
Read MoreTeaching Self-Control
Helpful Behaviors for Everyday Life. In our article about Earning Life’s Rewards (ELR), you learned how to teach your dog to say “please,” offering polite behavior. Polite behavior teaches your…
Read More“Leave it” – More Self-Control
“Zen” Dog Training. In addition to behaviors that are easily taught in your daily interactions with your dog (in “Teaching Self-Control”), here are a couple that require some specific training…
Read MoreEarning Life’s Rewards
A program for all dogs. Our Earning Life’s Rewards program is for puppies and dogs of all ages. It’s for dogs who need training, for pushy dogs, for dogs that…
Read MoreDog with Asperger’s Syndrome
Some behaviors can’t be trained away. I have long thought that my Chinook, Larry, is on the autism spectrum. A recent event really drove home what I’ve suspected for years—Larry…
Read MoreDaylight Saving Time
Changing clocks affects our dogs. Eastern Standard Time (turning the clocks back) started a few days ago. In the past four days, the dogs woke me an hour earlier than…
Read MoreIn a Multi-dog Household – Learn to be Alone
It’s important for a puppy to learn to be alone Last fall, when I decided to introduce a puppy into my home, I had to carefully consider Larry, my seven-year-old…
Read MoreAfter COVID, when it’s time to leave the dog home alone again
Larry and I have been home together 24/7 for six weeks, with few brief separations for occasional food shopping. While I love being with Larry from one perspective, it is…
Read MoreAll About Dominance – 1
Is My Dog Dominant? Dominance & Pack Behavior You’ve heard the popular jargon – alpha dog, pack leader, dominant. It’s the in-thing to treat dogs as if they are wolves in…
Read MoreAll About Dominance – 2
The Social Hierarchy Is there such a thing as a “dominant” dog? Sure there is. A social hierarchy can exist between dogs – members of the same species. But it is not…
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