Dog Training Articles & Advice

A collection of articles about dogs and dog training, with some general interest articles about dog health care.

• How to stop your dog from barking.
  Before you can begin, you need to listen to when your dog barks. While you won't understand her in the literal sense of the word, you can learn to identify, usually by the context, what she's trying to say.
• What it takes to be a Search and Rescue dog.
  Have you ever wondered if your dog has what it takes to be a search and rescue (SAR) dog? The skills of these heroic animals are called into play with every disaster imaginable.
• Breaking Up : Who gets custody of the pet?
  The idea of your beloved pet used as a bargaining chip in a separation or divorce is laughable ... until it happens.
• Dogs in Other Cultures : Not Everyone's Best Friend
  In other cultures, dogs are often seen as little more than food or labour. Westerners go to great lengths to please the tail-thumping creatures that have captured their hearts. But not all cultures so readily embrace the dog as man's best friend.
• Coping with the loss of your dog.
  Those years often forge a bond so strong that the dog's death leaves his human companion overwhelmed with grief and a host of other sometimes-confusing feelings.
• Stop your dog from rolling in smelly things.
  Why do dogs go out of their way to roll in everything from dead animals and the neighbour's garbage to swampy mud and even their own faeces?
• Stop your dog from digging.
  Tigger is at it again. Paws flailing, dirt flying and all your hard work planting a garden is in danger of being completely undone. Try these tips to stop your dog from digging.
• Teach your puppy to sit and stay sitting.
  Puppies love to move. They wriggle, bounce, roll and jump until they exhaust themselves, then they wake up and do it all over again.
• Stop your dog pulling while on the leash / lead
  Dogs are like people: they do not like to be pushed. If you push against your dog's chest, she will push back. It's instinct. Here you will find tips to stop your dog pulling.
• House Training Your New Puppy
  The theory behind crate training as housetraining is based on the puppies instinctive distaste for urinating or defecating in the same place where she sleeps.