I’m adding to the information that was provided in the March Natural Pet Tips featured in this month’s issue of the Houston Pet Talk magazine.

You can take your training to a new level with natural methods. These are things anyone can do so give them a try. Even if it is new to you, your pet may really appreciate you for it.

You may have heard of crate training your dog, buy maybe you don’t really understand what it is or how to do it correctly.

Crate training is not the same thing as confining your dog in a crate. When you are trying to housetrain a puppy or dog, the crate enables you to set your dog our puppy up to be successful in housetraining, instead of setting them up to fail.

Understand your puppy’s stages of development.

Dogs can be fearful for many reasons. It can be an inherently skittish breed (Chihuahua), have suffered some kind of trauma, people around them do the wrong things when something that might be fearful occurs (such as coddling the dog when it shakes), or they have never been exposed to the world around it (living in a backyard its entire life). There are many extremes of fear which can result in aggression or health issues. It is important to remember that every dog put in the right situation can bite, but it is how we react to what the dog tells us if we will get bit or not. When working with fearful dogs, we always want to be careful not to trigger a bite. Once a dog bites it is easier to bite again. Especially if the person reacts incorrectly to the bite.

3 Puppies and their girls after Puppy Class.
Bite Inhibition and Socialization.
Preventing bad bite inhibition and poor socialization are the most urgent priorities when it comes to your new puppy.  These things need to be worked on before your puppy is 18weeks old.  Unfortunately, many owners don’t consider or think about training until the puppy is 5 or 6 months old.  This is actually a poor time to start training as the puppy is no longer a puppy, but an adolescent.  That’s right a teenager! The good news is that dog …

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Topics covered include: sit, down, stay, drop it, leave it, come, loose leash walking, wait at the door and proper greeting. Learn more!

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Everyone has the ability to communicate with animals. It is only a matter of awakening this ability inside yourself.

Hundreds of thousands of dogs have been turned into animal shelters because their owners didn’t know how to deal with behavior problems and couldn’t find a reliable resource to help them.  We, at the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, think it is long overdue to dedicate a month where we can bring awareness to the importance of socialization and training, and most of all, to inform the public that training your dog can be simple and fun! The APDT has selected January as the perfect month because, as we all …