Category: Dog and Puppy Training

Why Your Dog “Forgets” their Training During Walks

Walking your dog around the house or garden is one thing. Transitioning those skills to places outside of those areas is an entirely different story and often, the perfect recipe for disaster. After weeks or even months of practicing with your dog, it can be really disappointing when everything you’ve been training for goes out […]

How to Be Ready For Anything While Walking Your Dog

We all have a ‘perfect vision’ of what walking our dog should look like. Usually, it involves you and your dog walking side by side in harmony. Your dog isn’t pulling on the leash or lunging towards everyone who passes by. It’s a peaceful walk and something that you look forward to every day. However, […]

How to Know What Your Dog Really Feels

Can you tell how your dog is feeling? Understanding how your dog feels takes time. It’s easy to misinterpret your dog’s emotions and feelings because they don’t show their feelings in the same way as humans. As a dog mom, you want your dog to be happy. Nobody wants their dog to feel sad, frightened, […]

If Traditional Dog Training Isn’t The Answer, What Is?

Do you have a dog who just won’t listen to you? Maybe your dog barks in the yard, pulls on the leash, or lunges towards everything (and everyone) they see. The bottom line is that whenever you need your dog to do something, they don’t. It’s frustrating when your dog won’t listen to you but…have […]

The Biggest Myth in Dog Training

Is training really the best solution for a misbehaving dog? Or, is it the one thing that’s making the problem worse? There is a huge myth surrounding dog training. If you ask me, believing in this myth and assuming that training is the solution for a naughty dog or a dog who just won’t listen, […]

How To Make Your Dog Listen To You

When your dog refuses to listen to you, it can be really frustrating. Sometimes, it can even feel like your dog isn’t listening to you on purpose, which makes you even more frustrated. However, dogs are not spiteful beings and they definitely don’t do things to ‘get back at you.’ Thankfully, I know just what […]

4 Reasons Why Your Dog Won’t Stop Barking

All dogs bark. It doesn’t matter if you have a tiny Yorkshire Terrier or a giant St. Bernard, every dog will bark. However, some dogs bark more than others. Excessive barking can sometimes drive you mad, especially when you don’t know why your dog is barking so much. Dogs bark for a wide variety of […]

How to Stop Unwanted Barking in 8 Steps

Pretty much every dog mom I’ve ever spoken to has a story of their best friend’s unwanted barking. I’ve certainly got a few stories of my own! This is a really tricky topic because we can’t expect our dogs to sit in silence. Dogs barking is just like humans talking – it’s natural and it’s […]

How Consent Empowerment Builds Trust with Our Dogs

I believe that just like you and me, our dogs should be given the freedom to give consent. Allowing your dog to give or withhold consent is so powerful because it helps to build trust between us and our dogs. Imagine your right to give consent was taken away from you. Imagine having to go […]

A Sensitive Dog in a Big Scary City with Ulla Kjeldgaard

Having a sensitive dog in a huge city packed with racing cars, zooming bikes, large crowds, and lots of noise, can be super difficult. Some might even say it’s impossible. However, I recently chatted with a like-minded individual who had this exact problem and was able to overcome it with her hypersensitive, nervous and fearful […]

Behavior is Communication

Does your dog ever look at you dead in the eyes as if they want to tell you something very important…but you’ve no idea what? Realistically, it could be something as small as needing to go outside to relieve themselves (or a guilty glare because they’ve already left a nice surprise for you in your […]

2 Favorite Indoor Games to Play with Your Dog

Stuck inside?  Dogs driving you crazy? Everyone a little stir crazy? Play some games! After writing about what to do with your Stir Crazy dog in part one, I was flooded with old memories of long evenings and weekends inside with my pent up dogs. We had so much fun! Laughing, playing, engaged, and loving […]