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Clicker Training Basics. Clicker training is a great way to teach your dog new things and it’s ideal for dogs of any age. It’s also great fun for people too! If you want to find out [...]

Puppy Training – How To Stop Biting And Nipping In Puppies. It’s perfectly natural for young puppies to investigate and explore the world around them using their mouths. Litter mates will [...]

Teaching Your Dog to ‘Leave-it’.   Teaching the leave-it cue is a useful exercise for your dog and it’s also really fun to do too. Most dogs catch on really quickly and [...]

Can Dogs Learn By Observation?   Experts are continuously learning about dog behaviour – how they think and how they learn. Many new experiments in dog behaviour, reveal that dogs are [...]

The Role Of Classical Conditioning In Dog Training.   In this Holidays4Dogs article on classical conditioning, we focus on how to implement the method when training our dogs. We learned in [...]

Why Is My Dog Growling?   It can be disconcerting when you witness a dog growling – particularly if it’s your own dog. Dogs growl for a number of reasons, but – while it [...]

Should You Train Your Dog?   For many dog owners, training is a big part of daily lives with their pet. But – is it necessary? Should you train your dog, or just let your dog be a dog? [...]

Teaching Your Dog – ‘Place’ or ‘Settle on the Mat’. In this Holidays4Dogs training article we will guide you through the steps of how to teach your dog to go to his mat, or bed.  Teaching [...]

Myths about Dominance Theory.   In this Holidays4Dogs article we will re-visit the subject of canine dominance theory when applied to raising and training pet dogs.  Thankfully, the idea of [...]

Clicker Training – Targeting. The aim of this exercise is to get your dog to target your hand with a nose touch. This can be useful for more advanced work where you want your dog to [...]