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...
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...
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 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 had...