[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] Most dog owners make more or less effort to train their dogs. If they are like me, they first learned to train dogs by rote. By that I mean, you followed some …
Two Important Words of Dog Training Advice
[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] Training our dogs can be fun and frustrating, both for us and our dogs. Humans and dogs have very different responses when progress goes slowly or in an unexpected …
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Defending Your Dog
[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] It wasn’t that long ago that the family dog was often a free-ranging rural or suburban dweller, happily spending his days exploring his fields or neighborhood. But as …
Frustrated Fido: Understanding People Isn’t Easy
[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] Good communication with our dogs relies on positive reinforcement, consistency and fairness. When that breaks down, our dogs can get frustrated with us. They can't …
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Demystifying the Behaviour of Dogs: Notes From A Different Path
[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] When we went through our difficulties with our dog Vince ten years ago, I’m not sure I understood what a life-changing experience it would be. It can be a difficult …
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Finding Out the Truth About Your Dog
[Sassy_Social_Share title="Share it with someone!"] We make a lot of assumptions about dogs. We pass them one. And, over time, these suppositions can turn into things we believe as TRUE about dogs. But ours is an age …
