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The Pup's a'Learning! :D I had my first confirmation that Winston understands a concept rather than the individual requests I give him. O.o I brought him in and set him down - with the leash still on until I moved the cat food - and Winston headed towards it. Without really thinking it'd...

Finally! :D (Couch damage from cats - he's blameless so far. ; ) His ears fall lopsidedly and man-o-man is he cute! He's also making it difficult to get a good pic of him - lol. :D He's doing great at house/clicker/training! It's tricky finding a way for the 2.5 yo to...

The pup we're considering will be @ 10 weeks when/if we bring him home. Those vital 2 weeks seem like hardly enough time to "see" as much as he can. In trying to come up with safe ways to meet people, I was considering taking the pup somewhere with a lot of foot traffic - local mall...

So we're going to meet the pup and, even after my years of reading and prep, I'm curious what questions I should ask about the pup while I'm at his birth home. Most information on the 'net about this tends toward questions for pure-breeders; and since we're looking at a mixed breed "accident"...

My wife asked me tonight, in preparation for our possible pup next week, how long it would be before we didn't have a whining pup overnights, comparing it to a newborn. :P I know a pup can be very similar, but I think she was mainly concerned about the length of time, as she doesn't have any...

We're looking for 'the pup'. :D I've been lobbying for so, so many years... read so many books on training and ownership, and finally, the family's resistance has been eroded over time with cute puppy pics and dog pettings. MWahahaha... :wrings hands together: I cannot convey my...

Title says it all... Adorable little schnauzer/something with the something being an unknown. (neighbor has a shnau/poodle/something mix that's suspected... but the colors don't match?) A friend of a friend has 8 "farm litter" pups and I'd like knowing to see if anyone agrees with...

Hello hello! It's been a couple months, but I'm back with a question that's been bugging me as I plan for a spring pup. :) I've done some searching about this, and apparently when trainers refer to 'dinner time', it's the animal's meal time. I'm wondering about training during the family's...

So I'm reading Pryor's "Reaching the Animal Mind", and that led me to watching dolphin videos on youtube with my 2 year old daughter... and came across this video... The dolphins are blowing - and manipulating after the fact - rings of bubbles for play! It's rather impressive...! I'm...

YouTube - Establishing Pack Structure with the Family Dog (*skip to 3 mins to get past his build-up) Does this offend you as much as it did me? I couldn't even finish watching the video - and that's saying a lot from me. It's fear mongering and and some might say abuse, in the name of "pack...

Greets! So I've finished Culture Clash, and was curious about the application of the "college level recall" section in the book, which basically talks about proofing recall by interrupting a retrieve with the "Come!" cue. This felt rather... counterproductive to me, although I couldn't...

...and you teach it what? There seems to be so, so many things to train, I was curious what were the first 5 or 10 things - in your home - you would teach a new pup. Obviously house training, but aside from that...? Sit, stay, leave it...? (Forgive my living through you and your...

Although it's been shaking the fragile foundations of what I understood of dogs, I'm finding Culture Clash a very informative book and I'm glad I'm reading it now, as opposed to 2 years after getting a pup! Of course, though, now I have a few questions... A> It seems the author...

Greets! KikoPup has been on my youtube subscriptions list for a while now, and her recent rescue addition reminded me of her other videos, such as this one: YouTube - Dog training tip of the day- Fading a Lure (while teaching SPIN) Good ideas, simply stated and demonstrated. Good stuff! :D

YouTube - MY NEW RESCUE PUPPY! If I lived closer, I'd steal him! I love the whiskers. :D

Greets, all! I've been sneaking around here reading for weeks now in preparation for getting our first family dog. My wife and I both grew up with dogs in our homes, but have only graced our daughters with cats - as of yet. I've been training myself to be ready to train our pup when it...

Greets! Longtime lurker here finally posting! ; ) Brief background: I was raised with dogs - parents bred/showed Great Danes - and am finally almost ready to introduce my own family into the love of dogs! In the meantime, as a fervent researcher, I've been doing a lot of reading. However...