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 pound, 10 month-old Larry had a kerfuffle … more correctly called a fight. It started with an accident. Larry was on the bed. When he […]
Teaching 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 dog self-control, also called “impulse control.” In addition to the behaviors in ELR, here are some other behaviors that can be taught without needing to […]
Earning 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 annoyingly demand attention, and those that don’t listen. We recommend starting this program with puppies to learn the “rules” of polite behavior in the household. […]
