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Puppy Training: A Practical Guide to Raising a Well-Behaved Dog

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Puppy training is the process of teaching a young dog how to live safely and calmly with humans—learning boundaries, impulse control, and real-world manners that hold up beyond treats and tricks. Good puppy training isn’t about perfection; it’s about preventing small problems from becoming lifelong habits. From first day home to real-world manners—by a professional […]

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Shocking a Puppy for Peeing In The House

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Definitely do not use a shock collar in this manner. That will almost certainly backfire in so many ways and is entirely unnecessary. You can housetrain a puppy to eventually go to the bathroom three times a day in one spot, in relatively short order. It just requires a little while of working with your puppy based on what a puppy is capable of at different stages of puppyhood and some diligent supervision on your part.

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Why Dogs That Live Together Start Getting Into Serious Fights

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The movie the Lady and The Tramp wasn’t a canine behavior documentary. Not all dogs, due to the nature, and, or nurture reasons outlined above are inclined to live with other dogs. However, sometimes we set them up to fail. There are options, and results vary. With enough effort, it’s technically possible to force dogs that live together to behave, but that’s not the same thing as enjoying living with other dogs and can be very stressful on one dog, or the other(s), and the owner.

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Dog To Dog Aggression – Unfamiliar Dogs

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Unfortunately, because the world of dog training is driven by people (trainers) that love dogs most dogs end up being influenced more by their hormones, breed genetics, bloodlines, and evolutionary programs alone, as opposed to these things AND a loving authority figure in the context as is universally found in higher order social species such as dogs, wolves, apes, humans, etc. Here’s how dogs are often led astray, and needlessly become aggressive with unfamiliar dogs. – John Wade

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