Play with your dog. It’s not just a popular book by Pat Miller, Play With Your Dog; it’s a really good idea. Playing with your dog has many benefits for both you and Fido. In just a few minutes or for an hour, you and your pooch can play to your hearts content. Dogs…
“Loose Leash Talking” is a fun title in my newsletter based on a term in dog training referred to as “Loose Leash Walking”. Try to say that 5 times or even once for that matter. Mostly it means that you can teach your dog to walk politely next to you without pulling, leaving your arms…
In houses with multiple dogs the best way to know that everyone likes each other is if they are NOT looking at each other. They can be playing, sleeping on top of each other, eating together and even madly in love with each other, but the minute they start staring at each other, then it’s…
From “At home with the dogs of kona’s touch” series celebrating APDT’s Train Your Dog Month and winner, best social media campaign Ten years ago yesterday we made a decision. I consider that day one of the best of my life. I didn’t want another dog, I wanted the one I had just lost, Kona, our…
I recently put a post on Facebook about my Beagle who crawls up on me to say good morning. I could have several “old fashioned” dog trainers aghast at what they would consider an inevitable war pitting dog against man (or woman as this case goes). The first two responses from my Facebook friends, learned…