Despite our best attempts to complicate dog ownership, dogs (and people) are really very simple creatures. They like to eat, they like to sleep, they like to hunt, they like to play, and they like ...
Despite working from home, and being home almost every single hour of every day, we decided to put Brock into doggy daycare for a day a week. "Why would you pay to put your dog ...
As you all know, we began our dogs on a training program. While this was initially for behavioral reasons, the physical reasons are just as good a reason to begin a training program. When we ...
We all have collections of half-eaten toys lying around. During our training, we decided it was a good idea for our pets to clean up their own mess. So, we started working on training them ...
Holidays are stressful for everyone, including your pets. If you’re into the whole “impression management” thing (and I admit that we tried for years, but have long since quit caring), you know that there's not ...
If your normally mild-mannered dog goes into defensive mode whenever a strange person comes to visit, you're not alone. Newly adopted dogs in particular can be difficult to settle around strangers and may exhibit behaviors ...
One of the first questions we had to ask ourselves before we embarked on our mission to train our dogs was, "What do we want our dogs to know?" The answer to that question will ...
We are still working hard on our training and we’re finally seeing some results from these hard-headed dogs of ours. They are slow learners, there is no doubt about that, and they demand to be ...
One of our training goals this month included trying to keep the dogs from rushing the front door. The front door is an interesting place for our pack and I imagine it is for every ...
When we first started out with our training diaries commitment, we wanted to ensure our pets were all healthy. After our preliminary health checks (you can read more about those here: Training Diaries: Health Checks) ...