Bad Dog! 10 Reasons Your Dog Might Develop Behavior Problems

Bad Dog! 10 Reasons Your Dog Might Develop Behavior Problems

1) Not Enough Exercise Dogs need physical exercise to be happy and walks on leash around the block are not usually sufficient. Activities like off-leash runs, fetch, playing with a flirt pole toy, running with you with a bike leash such as a Walky Dog or Springer, or...
Loud Loker

Loud Loker

LOUD LOKER How a dog went from barking at dogs over 40 yards away to listening in the vicinity of dogs just 5 feet away.   Guest post by Ines Gaschot  of “The Crossover Trainer” I adopted Loker when he was 2.5 years old from a no-kill animal shelter...
Pet Portrait Painting by Cameron Dixon – Cedi

Pet Portrait Painting by Cameron Dixon – Cedi

My latest pet portrait painting is of Cedi. Cedi recently passed away and a friend of her owner decided to pool together donations from many people who were touched by Cedi throughout her life. Once all was accounted for, more than 30 people donated money for me to...
Do You Have a Reactive Rover?

Do You Have a Reactive Rover?

Whether you have a yappy yorkie, a barking bichon, a vicious vizsla, a lunging lurcher, a hyper hound or a bouncing boxer – there is hope for your “bad” dog. The term reactive dog has become a sort of catch-all umbrella term to describe...
Think “P.U.P”

Think “P.U.P”

THINK PUP! By Sarah Fulcher, Cert. CBST   Want a calm, confident, well-behaved canine companion? A dog will always be a reflection of his genes and environment and in order to change your dog’s behaviour, you have to change your own behaviour. The...
Raising Rover: The Five “R”s of Positive Training

Raising Rover: The Five “R”s of Positive Training

Raising Rover: The Five “R”s of Positive Training By Sarah Fulcher, Cert. CBST, CDT, CTDI Through my years of working with dogs, I have learned multiple training methods from dominance-based to dog-friendly. It is with positive reinforcement based dog training I have...