Dog Training: How to use your voice when working with your dog
In the comments of an earlier lesson (Part One of Teaching Your Dog to Sit, Lie Down, and Stay - On the Box), one of our readers asked a great question about the importance of using your voice when you're doing box-work with your dog. Is it important to speak to your...
Dog Training Quick Tip: What to do when it rains outside
When it's raining out, I enjoy the prospect of a day off from doggie activity. Staying in PJs, lounging around the house, listening to Dylan, drinking tea, etc. The only thing is, I don't think that Nola feels the same way! Your dog probably doesn't either. So...
Dog Training: Part One of Teaching Your Dog to Sit, Lie Down, and Stay - On the Box!
Along with addressing problem behaviors in our dogs, Natural Dog Training is great for obedience. Natural Dog Training is designed to teach your dog how to do things like sit, lie down, stay - and come when called - all in an energized state. Now, why is it...
Dog Training: An advanced technique for dealing with dog aggression towards other dogs
When your dog is aggressive towards other dogs, remember that what you're really dealing with is a dog who can't stay relaxed around other dogs. That's the problem, period. A dog who can't stay relaxed around other dogs will reach the point of overload, resulting in...
Dog Training: The importance of staying relaxed and resolving your own emotions when you work with your dog
The primary way our dogs experience the world is not by thinking - it is through feeling. Our dogs are like big emotional radars - picking up on the vibes that the world throws their way. While "the world" is a huge source of emotional energy, who do you think is...
Dog Training: Why your dog stopped coming when you call and how to fix it
It happens to almost everyone. You taught your dog to come when you called at an early age using the standard method you'll find in any book (or on any blog): calling your dog's name, then, when your dog comes to you, giving your dog a treat. Generally this method...
Dog Training and Socialization: Don't worry if your dog doesn't like the dog park
Socialization, socialization, socialization. These days we're told that the key to having a dog that gets along with all other dogs and people is to make sure that you give the dog a daily dose of socialization. Dogparks have sprung up around the country, giving dog...
Rescue Remedy is Worth a Shot
I know this is a blog about natural dog training, but I have to tell you about the effect that using Rescue Remedy (one of the Bach flower essences) has had on my cat, Violet. For most of her life, Violet's first name could have been "Shrinking" - she has lived her...
Dog Training: What is Natural Dog Training anyway?
If you've read everything that I've written up until now, you should have a pretty good understanding of what Natural Dog Training is and how Natural Dog Training elicits obedience behaviors and solves problems for our dogs. However, after the 2nd edition of the "all...
Dog Training and Space Issues: Give your dog a place to be other than the couch or your bed
Imagine if you tried to have a conversation with a friend of yours, and everytime you said something your friend said the exact same thing at the exact same time. Sure, it'd be creepy - and it would be impossible to get anywhere with your dialogue. Imagine if you...
Dog Training and Submissive Urination: How to introduce your dog to another person
Ideas for dog training articles abound, it seems. Sunday morning I was eating breakfast at a local brunch joint (hello Pepperclub!) when one of the other patrons overheard that I wrote a dog training blog. It seems that she has a new Bergamasco puppy who has the...
Dog Training and Focus: Walk WITH your dog when you walk with your dog
A staple of any relationship that you share with a canine companion is "the walk". Walking is a time for you and your dog to be on the hunt together, taking in the smells of the neighborhood (or park, or woods, or wherever) and enjoying your experience of the world...
Dog Training: Please put your dogs on the ground where they belong
I'm going to make a huge assumption here - you're reading this blog because you are interested in how your dog really feels the world, and you want to make sure that you have the happiest dog possible. You have recognized that some traditional ways of looking at your...
Dog Training: How to redirect an excited or aggressive dog on a walk
This situation might seem familiar to you: You're on a walk with your dog, through the woods, around the neighborhood, wherever. Everything is fine, doggie is just sniffing the ground, and you're feeling nice and relaxed, just enjoying the scenery. All of a sudden,...
Dog Training: How to introduce your dog to another dog in ten easy steps
I'm about to have some houseguests arrive, and they'll be here for a few days. Why am I telling you this, you ask? Well, it turns out that they have a black lab mix - he's young, a bit spastic, and he has been known to be aggressive with other dogs. So, in the...
