| DogTeachers.com Provides Free Dog Training Tips To Dog Owners
(PRLEAP.COM) DogTeachers.com has officially launched. It bills itself as a resource for dog owners looking to for tips to train their dogs and puppies. The website contains a lot of information for people just starting out with dogs. For example, prominently displayed on the site are the topics of obedience training and potty training a puppy two of the most relevant topics to any new dog owner. For those looking to teach certain tricks to dogs, there is a section that includes guides on all the basic commands such as sit, lay down, come, fetch and other basics. For those looking for more advanced training, a guide on agility training, and other dog sports can easily be found on the site. For those who dont have a dog, but are considering getting one, DogTeachers.com will likely be helpful.
Dental care helps prevent dog breath
This one time, Stella Kowoofski got into Buster Kitten's box and helped herself to the yummy chocolate drops inside -- and then came over and gave me a hello lick. My body gives this involuntary shudder every time I recall the distinctive scent carried on her breath. A lot of dogs exhale stink. More often than not, the cause isn't potty mouth; it's dental disease. Since April was Oral Health Month for those of us with the opposing thumbs required to floss 'n' brush three times daily, canine behaviourist Gillian Ridgeway thinks we should consider our canine's dental hygiene, too. .
Potty Traning an Rescue Dog
I have just adopted a dog from the APS in Durham. She is about 1.5 y/o. When I first brought her home, she was great about taking care of her business outside and waiting until I returned from work. However, now she is defecating and urinating while I am away (and yesterday while I was home in the evening). I take her for walks every day to get her exercise at which time she will go outside; however, she still is relieving herself inside. How can I help her understand the difference? A: Make sure you are using a set schedule for her to go outside and keep using positive reinforcement. Our trainers recommend to keep working with her and positive reinforcement. When she is outside and does her business, give her a treat (it doesn't have to be a high-fat treat like a beggin-strip, just a small piece of her kibble, or a small training treat). She will learn that when she goes outside, she gets a treat. Are you using a crate when you are not home? That is one other recommendation. If she has the roam of the house when you are not home, she can very easily urinate and defecate in one room and lay down in another. Talk to a dog trainer about the proper ways of crate training, so it is enjoyable for both of you, and it may help reduce the number of accidents in the house. Over time, you may be able to leave her out of the crate, but I would start with one initially, until she gets the routine down.
Potty training easily derailed
With our children in their teens and twenties, we should have been over this hassle long ago. But when you share your life with animals, some form of potty training is always under way.
At least with the animals there are no desperate races through restaurants or malls with a toddler in tow, no frantic braking and signals to reach a shrub on the roadside.
In many respects it's an easier task when dealing with critters. Though they have personalities and attitudes all their own, they haven't achieved the type of stubbornness displayed by DD, our eldest, one evening when she didn't want to go to bed.
She discovered mom and dad were equally adamant about curfew. Battle lines were drawn. No, she couldn't get up for any more drinks of water. The plea, "I have to go to the bathroom," was the only valid excuse for being up we'd allow.
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