THIS IS AWESOME! My favorite dog trainer and dog whisperer of all time has just released a free video online explaining how to eliminate 94% of all unwanted behavior in ANY dog. Her name is Krista Cantrell and I absolutely LOVE the way she teaches. Click on the video to watch. You'll be glad you did...

Dog Training in Salt Lake City

Most dog owners don’t want their dog to be a show dog. Desire a dog like in movies. An obedient fun loving dog. The problem is that most people don’t have the experience to train puppies. In fact, often times the things we try to train our dogs with actually end up making things worse!

For those with the luck to have a great dog to begin with, good for you. For the rest of us, what’s needed is a professional dog trainer. Hiring a dog trainer is simple and easy if you are in Utah. Ryan. over at Train Walk Groom provides quality dog training in Salt Lake City for dogs of all ages. Ryan can come to your home or board your dog for some “boot camp” training. If you enroll in the boot camp style training, Ryan provides a live dog cam so you can keep an eye on your dogs progress.

Train Walk Groom can solve a multitude of problems with your dog. Ranging from barking, not be social with other dogs, potty training, to walking properly on a leash.

There is no reason for and you and your family to live with an unruly dog. There’s no reason to have to get rid of your dog because you can’t stop him from barking. No need to panic that your dog might bite other dogs.

Before you go on with a dog you love but isn’t behaved make sure to visit Ryan’s site and give him a call. A cure for your dog’s behavioral problem is out there and local! No two dogs are alike, and Ryan understands that by providing unique training to each dog and owner. With Ryan’s guidance your puppy will be the envy of your city!

 

Technorati Tags: Dog Training, Puppy Training

http://www.dogtrouble.net Take a look into the play habits of a young pit bull puppy named Cayce. Blue and Cayce are playing just a day or two after Cayce was adopted into my pack. Playtime is also learning time!

Puppies play games with their teeth. Here you will see Blue and Cayce in some perfectly natural puppy time play.

In this video you will see how to deter excitable, dominant humping behavior as Blue gets a little too excited about the new pack member.

Enjoy! If you have serious dog behavior problems, please visit my website at http://www.dogtrouble.net

Duration : 0:5:15

Read the rest of this entry

Technorati Tags: aggressive dogs, dangerous, dog fighting, dog trainer, Dog Training, dominance, greenville dog bite, mix breed, pit bull puppies, puppy biting, Puppy Training, Raising Puppies, rottweiler

To learn more visit http://www.DogStarDaily.com/ or http://SIRIUSpup.com/
To finish up the course, we run the pups through the heeling course, stopping at stations for position changes. Moving forward, our owners need to work on phasing out the use of food lures and rewards, so that food doesnt become a crutch in training.

Duration : 0:8:5

Read the rest of this entry

Technorati Tags: behavior, dog, food, heeling, lure, obedience, pet, Puppy Training, reward

There are a number of important guidelines that you need to keep in mind when teaching your puppy & your new pet will need you and depend on you for many things. Exercising the right training techniques is must & it is important to remember that owning a dog also means there will be responsibilities. Follow these five important guidelines.

1 - Be Gentle - Your new puppy is going to be extremely sensitive at first. A dog, like a child, needs proper care, attention, and training. He will not be able to handle anything that is too stressful or tough in the beginning. Your new dog is an extension of your family. It needs to learn to fit in and live by the house rules, so make sure to be gentle but firm in your training.

2 - Keep Things Brief - Puppies have even shorter attention spans than children so Just as you would want your kids to be well behaved, your dog is no different. Your puppy is only going to learn when his or her attention is on you, Make sure to be brief when putting your puppy through training activities, and then you can move a head. Use just simple & easy items & techniques.

3 - Exercise Patience - Persistence and patience are necessary attributes you need when training your new pup. You need to keep at it. Expecting overnight results is only going to frustrate you so remember to be patient, don’t expect your puppy to learn after one short lesson.  Relax, and understand that things like this will take time. Exercise patience & training your dog is an ongoing process and the biggest reward will be having a well behaved pet.

4 - Exercise Simplicity - Teaching your puppy should be done in a step by step process & using positive reinforcement will increase the effectiveness of your training schedule. If you want to attain the best results just be simple in training & reward your puppy when it reacts positively to the training. This is the best way that your puppy will learn. Exercise a simple, step by step approach and your puppy will learn more quickly.

5 - Build Confidence The level of performance your puppy will achieve depends on your ability to create confidence. Building confidence in your puppy is not difficult. All you need to do is spend positive time with your puppy. It is also important that you educate yourself with various dog training techniques & you should not always be in training mode. Training is important, but above all your pup will love to be your friend.

You can get more knowledge about latest hollywood gossip and celebrity pic when you’re directly into people reality only at that blog.

Technorati Tags: dogs, dogs training, pets, Pets Training, Puppy Training

Puppy training is important during the first 12 to 16 weeks of a puppy’s life, and it helps them become comfortable with human touch and handling. Help train a well-adjusted puppy with help from a certified dog trainer in this free video on canine behavior.

Expert: Denisa Canales Hoult
Contact: www.applauseyourpaws.com
Bio: Denisa Dee Canales Hoult is the owner of Applause Your Paws, Inc., a dog training company in Miami that focuses on education for dog owners.
Filmmaker: Paul Muller

Duration : 0:2:32

Read the rest of this entry

Technorati Tags: barking, dog health, Dog Training, dogs, litter training, paper training, pet care, pets, puppies, Puppy Training, roll over, service dogs, sit, therapy dogs

Westie- 10 week old puppy - doing some cute tricks. Born on Thanksgiving day - Nov 27, 2008 - west highland terrier - dog training, puppy training, obedience training dogs, puppy dog,
West Highland White Terrier, clicker training

Duration : 0:2:33

Read the rest of this entry

Technorati Tags: clicker training, obedience training dogs, puppy dog, Puppy Training, west highland white terrier

Are you ready for Puppy Training 101? To get started, you will want three specific pieces of accessories to be able to correctly teach your puppy: a training collar, a leather training lead, along with a 15-foot span clothesline rope.

If you’re already thinking that your puppy’s present leather collar will work, and that his 4-foot chain leash will suffice, you may as well stop reading this article and save yourself and your puppy weeks of discomfort and hardship. There simply is no substitute for the right training equipment. A training collar is a slip-chain type made of metal. Don’t substitute one that’s made of nylon.

One of the many things your puppy is going to learn is to have confidence in you. But he will never develop that feeling of confidence if you substitute improper training equipment that will not be effective. Where there’s no confidence there can be no respect, and no respect means no desire to please. No desire to please means no willingness to learn. Add them all up and you have an uncontrollable puppy that will never achieve his rightful place in human world.

The Proper Leash

Your leash should be of the regular five to six foot leather type with a hand loop at one end. Training dog collars along with leather training leads can be obtained from pet specialists and also through internet catalogs. Training collars are sometimes called choke-chains, which is incorrect. While it’s true that a training collar can choke, if it’s worn on the puppy correctly and used properly, there’s no way it can be a choke-chain and cause harm to your pet.

The Right Collar

The collar should be large enough to slide over the puppy’s head comfortably, but not so large as to fall over the ears if the puppy should lower his head. A good rule of thumb to follow is to place the collar on the puppy and cinch it up tight for a moment and observe whether you have three inches of chain left over. If so, you have a fairly good fit. It is better to have a training collar that’s slightly too large than one slightly too small.

Final Puppy Training Necessities That You Cannot Find In A Store

The remaining equipment that you’ll need cannot be purchased at any store, but without them, you cannot successfully train your puppy.

You must love and care for your puppy! You must have patience and exercise patience while your puppy is learning. A shallow patience put together along with a quick temper is going to assure complete and utter fiasco.

To lose your cool and blow up means the end of training, so here’s a little tip that might help you keep your cool:

It takes 4 to 5 days for an average puppy to learn the average thing. Do not expect your puppy to perform like a professional the first few days of teaching him something new. It just doesn’t happen that way. Should you lose control of yourself, you have lost charge of the situation. When this happens, your puppy loses confidence in you.

I hope you have enjoyed the first lesson in Puppy Training 101!

Technorati Tags: puppy obedience training, Puppy Training, Puppy Training 101, puppy training tips

Training your dog to come anytime it is called

Teaching your k9 to come the minute it is called is usually a vital, in addition to possibly life saving, component to every successful pet training regime.  Any correctly trained dogs must learn to react straight away to your owner’s voice, and also the quicker this lesson is learned the better.

The advantages of training your puppy to come while called are understandable.  To start,, coming anytime called will help you regain control of the puppy in case of collar break, snapped leash or other similar equipment failure.  That is particularly important anytime you are out with your dog, especially in an area with lots of traffic.  It can be vital that your dog respond to your voice and return to your side, even in the absence of collar and leash, and whether or not there are lots of other activities competing for its attention.

Coming as soon as called just happens to be a vital skill for each and every working puppy.  Whether the dog’s job is herding sheep, guarding livestock, or sniffing out bombs and drugs at your airport, the working k9 must be under total control at all times, whether on leash or off.

Regardless of whether your dog’s sole job is being a loyal companion, it will be still vital that he learn this important basic obedience exercise.  After the first obedience lessons, such as heeling, stopping on command, sitting on command, etc. have been learned, it will be time to start incorporating your come when called lessons into the daily training sessions.

One note about four-legged friend training – it is all too easy for training sessions to become dull and routine for both handler and k9.  A bored canine friend will not be receptive to learning, just as a bored handler will not be a good teacher.  It will be important, therefore, to always incorporate fun things and play into each training session.  Incorporating a few minutes of play time before your lesson begins can do wonders for your attitude of dog and human alike.  Likewise, ending each training session that has a few minutes of free play time is a great way to end on a positive note and to help your pet associate obedience training with fun and not drudgery.

The command to stay and your command to come when called are often combined in obedience training lessons, and they do go naturally together.  Start with the canine friend on a loose leash, ask the dog to sit and then slowly back away.  If your dog begins to get up and follow you, return to your pet and ask him to sit again.  Continue this process until you can reach your end of your leash without the k9 getting up.

After you can successfully reach the end of the leash on a consistent basis, try dropping the leash altogether.  Of course you will want to do this in a controlled environment like a fenced in yard.  After your puppy has mastered the stay command, its time to add the come anytime called command.

Take up your leash again, and with the k9 on your end of the leash, say “come” or “come here”. It can be often helpful to use a lure anytime educating this behavior.  The lure provides a visible item for your puppy to focus on.  Teaching your k9 to come to your lure is a good first step in training the four-legged friend to come when called.

Repeat this procedure many times until the puppy will consistently stay and then come when called.  After your puppy has mastered coming while called while attached to the leash, slowly start introducing the concept as soon as the leash is removed.  As before, these training sessions should only take place in a controlled, safe environment, such as a fenced in front or back yard.

A well trained, obedient dog ought to respond to the call to return to its owner no matter where it’s and no matter what distractions may occur.  This is therefore necessary to test your dog with distractions of your own.

If you have a neighbor, preferably one having a dog of his own, try having him come over with the dog.  Have him, and your dog, stand just outside your fenced in area and repeat your come whilst called exercise with your puppy off leash.  If he becomes distracted by the other dog, put your leash back on and repeat your process.  Your goal is to have your canine consistently pay particular attention to your instructions, no matter what distractions could present themselves.

Technorati Tags: Dog Training, house training, Puppy Training, train dog, train puppy

Puppies are so cute; everybody loves them.  They are curious, fun, playful and cuddley and we tend to enjoy every part of having a new puppy until they do their duty in an inappropriate spot and then we have to contend with the biggest problem and difficulty of having a new puppy, house training.

The most important thing to remind yourself of and to take into consideration is that your puppy is still very young.  He does not yet have the comprehension level to control his potty habits or to realize what you are asking him to do when you tell him to go potty.  You will need to have patience and work with him closely for a couple of weeks before he develops the ability to alert you when it is time to go out and to control his bladder and other functions.

At the start you may need to take your puppy outside as often as 2 to 3 times per hour.  That may seem like a lot but a little puppy does not yet comprehend how to control himself and the active playing that most puppies engage in creates urine.  Nighttime may be better as a resting puppy will not need to go out as often.  Do not wake a sleeping puppy just to go out to potty but rather just make sure and take him out as soon as you can after he awakens.

Consistency is the most important part of potty training.  Be consistent in taking him out on his leash to the same potty place every time.  Be consistent about issuing the same commands such as “potty now” every time.  And be consistent with your lavish praise and special treats when he does finally go.

If you make the entire experience a positive one for your puppy your puppy house training will be completed sooner.  That means that you will need to be patient and loving even when there is a mishap.  Just take him outside and praise him when he does it correctly and ignore it when he does it wrong.  Your dog wants to make you happy so it is crucial that you do not do anything that will confuse him.

It is unlikely that you will be able to spend all of your time with your puppy so when you need to be away from your puppy you should put him in a crate.  Puppies and dogs are natural den animals and they like to have a small place of their own.  Also, puppies will rarely dirty their own place so a crate will assist you in teaching your puppy how to control himself.

Consistency is the most crucial aspect of training.  Make sure that you use a consistent command and take him to the same place every time so that there is no confusion on his part.  Making the experience a positive one for him will also help him to learn faster and you will be done with your potty training sooner.

It should take just a few short weeks to complete your house training.  Doing it right will serve you for the entire time that you own your dog so be consistent and positive and you will be able to enjoy many happy years with your new puppy. For more information about dog obedience training then you can get dog training videos online that will teach you every thing you need to know.

Technorati Tags: Dog Training, dogs, pets, Puppy Training

The key to house training your puppy to make the transition from going to the bathroom on paper indoors to holding it and waiting until it can go outside is a bit of common sense and outdoor manners. Transfering from paper to going outside requires you to carry the puppy to the proper place. Little dogs can be easily carried outside, however you may need to get a carrier to transport bigger dogs if you do not have the strength. Once you have finally carried your puppy outside without any incident and all you see before you are blocks and blocks of concrete, where should you go?

It is common sense that certain places like play grounds, flower beds, city trees, landscaping and other places people are should be off limits. Letting a male dog lift his leg on somebody’s garbage can or other things that might be touched by humans is not very nice. Make sure you are properly prepared to invest a lot of time outdoors with your puppy potty training. A fearful puppy won’t be relaxed enough to want to potty and the puppy can be so distracted by all the stimuli that it won’t want to go outside.

Can your pup focus enough amidst all the noise of traffic and people to ever learn to use the concrete? Yes, with training. One method for outdoor potty training sessions is called ‘curbing’ which is where your dog eliminates over the curb into the gutter. Position your puppy’s rear end over the curb and let it eliminate. Give gentle and somewhat quiet praise to your puppy while he is going then praise with exuberance afterwards. Just be aware that if you praise too much during the act, your puppy will get distracted and wriggly – not a good combination in mid-elimination.

If your dog makes an error, just pick up the mess and don’t be perturbed about it, just smile and nod. Don’t drag the pup over in mid-poop and scold it for going in the wrong place, instead get it to the right place next time. Make it a habit and praise your dog and very soon your pup will catch on with his dog potty training. Life will just run smoother if you can teach your puppy to go on cue. When the time comes for the dog to begin his business, gently repeat the cue words and praise the puppy and when he finishes, praise him again.

A Few Other Potty Training Choices

There are plenty of alternative potty areas for pet owners who live in urban settings that they may not even have considered like utilizing a fenced or walled off rooftop which may be more convenient than getting down to the street. Be certain the place is properly secured with a sturdy fence that the dog cannot squeeze through. If it’s walled, keep your dog on a leash to ensure the pup doesn’t decide to explore the drop on the other side. A terrace is one other option that works well for larger dogs. Also, there are buildings that have storage or basement areas that can also be used as a potty place, just ensure it is a surface like concrete or tile that can be easily washed off.

A few people have installed graveled pits or grass strips, fake and real, on their patios for dogs to use, however, these tend to get dirty quickly. You have to be very consistent with replacing the grass and cleanup when it is necessary to keep it clean enough so your dog will continue using them. The last point is to remember your neighbors as the smell can become pretty intolerant especially through the hot summer, so cleanliness is key. Dog house training, inside or out needs a little bit of time and patience, but it is well worth the effort.

Technorati Tags: Dog Housetraining, housetraining, puppy potty training, Puppy Training