Keep Canine Nation Alive! Canine Nation is a labour of love. The essays and podcasts are available for free and we hope that you share them with the dog people in your life. Sadly, it does cost us money each year for …
Cognitive Dissonance and Respectful Disagreements
In an argument, it is fundamentally disrespectful to the other person to assume, let alone assert, that the reason they don’t agree with you is because they are suffering from a defect in their reasoning. Increasingly, …
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Our new Guest Authors!
Canine Nation is pleased to announce that we are expanding to feature the work of some of the best and brightest writers and trainers in the dog world. Our Canine Nation Forum on Facebook has sparked lively and …
Five Years of Canine Nation
In February, Canine Nation celebrated it's 5 year anniversary! Canine Nation has published over 200 articles and more than 100 podcasts since we started in 2010. We are proud to have been featured on the Life As A …
Welcome to Canine Nation 2.0!
We are excited to welcome you to the next generation of Canine Nation! We have worked hard for the last three months to review our website and give it a facelift that makes it easier to navigate. And we aren't done …
“Leave It!” Training with Nando Brown
We're pleased to feature videos from In The Doghouse trainer Nando Brown. In this video, Nando shows how he trains the "Leave It!" cue for his dogs and offers some excellent advice about training and using this …
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