How to Train Your Puppy Dog to Ring a Bell to Potty - By Aidan Bindoff - After you have house trained your puppy dog, you might find it useful to train your puppy to ring a bell when he wants to go out to potty. Believe it or not, this is not a difficult trick to train if you follow these instructions. Your puppy will only ring the bell when he or she genuinely needs to go to the toilet.
A Brief Introduction to Clicker Training Your Puppy or Dog - By Aidan Bindoff - This brief article is an introduction to Clicker Training for Puppies and Dogs. Clicker Training is an effective and pet-friendly method of dog training that anyone can learn and use straight away to teach tricks and solve common behavior problems.
Are You Over-Using Your Clicker? - By Aidan Bindoff - Browsing the various internet email lists for clicker training, you might get the idea that the clicker is the most over-used tool in clicker training! Let's examine that more closely...
Teach Your Puppy or Dog to Come When Called - First Time, Every Time, Turn on a Dime! - By Aidan Bindoff - Teaching your puppy or adult dog to come when called might be the most useful 'trick' you could ever teach your dog - and it might also prove to be life-saving! When your dog slips his leash and dashes off across the highway after a stray cat, you don't want a "take your sweet time" sort of recall, you want a first-time-every-time-turn-on-a-dime sort of recall. But how do we train this using pet-friendly techniques that anyone can master?
Dog Dominance - Fact or Fiction? - By Aidan Bindoff - Does dog dominance really exist, or is the whole notion a hang-over from bad research done in the 1930s and 1940s? Are dogs really trying to "rule the roost"? Are we really such bad leaders? Do dogs even recognize us as part of their pack?
Rather than Dog Blaming or Puppy Shaming, Try Dog Training! - By Aidan Bindoff - How often do you find yourself saying "No!" or "Bad Dog!" to your dog or puppy? Let's face it, if it was working for you you wouldn't find yourself doing it more than once or twice. So how do we go from being a "Dog Blamer and Shamer" to a "Dog Trainer"? Read this article to find out how!
House Breaking Your Puppy or Dog the Easy Way - By Aidan Bindoff - Are you having trouble house-breaking your dog or puppy? Find out the easy way to solve your dog's toilet training problems.
The Fastest Possible House Training for Puppies and Dogs - Part II - How To Avoid Daytime Accidents - By Aidan Bindoff - In this article we look at how to avoid daytime accidents when house training your new puppy or dog (in Part I we looked at totally eliminating night-time accidents). Avoiding accidents is very important, because the fastest possible learning is error less learning. Find out how by reading the rest of this article and you will soon be on the way to having a totally house-trained puppy or dog!
Human Foods that Poison Pets Feeding pets food that we enjoy is not only wrong, it can also be fatal. There are some foodstuffs that humans relish which cause illness and death if eaten by pets.
Are Laser Pointers Safe for Your Puppy Dog? - By Aidan Bindoff - Are laser pointers safe to use with dogs for training or play? Some dogs have developed serious "obsessive-compulsive" type behaviors (known as a "stereotypie") when allowed to chase the dot from a laser pointer, yet others do not develop these behaviors. So how do we know if our dog is at risk of developing a stereotypie when exposed to a laser pointer, and is the light dangerous to our dog's eyes?
Pet's death rekindles electronic ID debate - July 1, 2004 - By the "Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association" - Like other pet owners who opt for the added precaution of microchipping a pet, Massey found a measure of comfort knowing that the rice-size chip increased her chances of being reunited with Hadden, were he to become lost
The Most Important Exercise for Multiple Dog or Puppy Owners - Part II - By Aidan Bindoff - If you have more than one dog or puppy living under your roof, then this is one of the most important and useful exercises you can teach. Without this exercise (or something very similar), one of your dogs will probably learn to bully the other dogs out of the way for attention or food. This exercise lays the foundation for happy, well-mannered multiple dog homes.
Raisin the Alarm According to Laurinda Morris, an Ohio veterinarian, grapes and raisins are poisonous to dogs and can cause acute renal (kidney) failure.
At Last -- A Formula to Rid Your Pet of Skunk Scent You'd think that if you discovered the hands-down, bar-none best way for dealing with a pet who has been skunked, you'd be able to sell your formula for a tidy sum and be set for life, right? Wrong. At least, that's not the way it worked for chemist Paul Krebaum, who found just such a magic formula a few years ago -- and hasn't gained anything but the gratitude of pet lovers for his troubles.
Training the Reliable Watch Dog - How to Get Started Today - Part I - By Aidan Bindoff - If Home Security is important to you, then you may want to train your dog to be a reliable watch dog. Some dogs are natural watch dogs, but these dogs will still need training otherwise they can quickly become nuisance barkers. Other dogs are not natural watch dogs, but with training can become excellent watch dogs.
Training the Reliable Watch Dog - Friend of Foe? - Part 2 - By Aidan Bindoff - If Home Security is important to you, then you may want to train your dog to be a reliable watch dog. Some dogs are natural watch dogs, but these dogs will still need training otherwise they can quickly become nuisance barkers. Other dogs are not natural watch dogs, but with training can become excellent watch dogs. In Part 1 of this two part article we looked at teaching our dog to bark and shush on cue. In Part 2 we will look at teaching our dog to discriminate between normal sounds and a possible intruder. It is important to have this discrimination if our dog is to be an effective and reliable watch dog, and not just a nuisance barker.
