Showing leadership in a manner your dog understands and can relate to will make him secure in his position within the household, and security is something all dogs need. Not doing this will result in a badly-behaved dog that growls at you when you tell him to get off your bed. If you replace love, […]
Dog Owner PROBLEM: My dog wakes up in the middle of the night and hears cats. So he runs outside to investigate, he uses the dog flap to go out. Of course he wakes me up. How can I stop him from doing this? The Dog Trainer ANSWER: The quick answer here is to close […]
• Always brush your dog on a table with a rubber mat (at hip height) so that the surface is non-slip • The coat of your dog must be dry before attempting to brush it; A clean coat can be brushed a dirty coat can not • After bathing and drying the coat always brush […]
I cannot count the number of times when people have said to me, as if it was the only thing that mattered, how much they love their dog. The problem with this is that there is also the notion that their dog, inevitably, will love them back. Dogs have all sorts of ‘feelings’: they feel […]
In all the years that I have trained dogs, I have noticed that a dog’s diet has a strong correlation to their ability to concentrate and learn new behaviours’ in training as well as hold that information easily until the next training session. A bad diet does affect your dog’s ability to listen and do […]
FROM The Dog Trainer BOOK: How to train your barking, howling, jumping up, pulling on the lead and won’t come when it’s called dog. I met a lovely lady called Dora who a wee ‘Hairy Maclary’ type dog had called Billy. She wanted Billy to stop dashing out the door every time it was open […]
