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

Teaching Your Dog to ‘Leave’.   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 [...]

When To Start Puppy Training.   There was an old idea that puppies shouldn’t start training until they were six months old. However, we now know much more about how dogs learn. In addition, [...]