How to Clicker Train Your Dog

•How To Train Your Dog To Come When Called
There are many reasons that you would want to train your dog to respond correctly to your come command. Safety of course is the most important of these reasons. As your dog grows up the chances that your dog will at some point get free from its lease increases. Many dog owners also allow their dogs to run free in the confines of their yards. It is important that your dog learns how to respond to this vitally important command from an early age to avoid potential dangers in the future. As with...

•Cat Training Basics
Before you train your cat, you will need to know about a cat. If you want to train your cat to sit, beg, and roll over, you should probably switch for a dog. In most cases, a cat is designed much differently than a dog in psychology and behavior. This is why some people either love cats or dislike cats; it is usually one or the other. When it comes to training cats, we just want them to do the basics. These types of things would be to use the litter box rather than on the floor in the closet....

•How to House Train Your Dog
Dog is man’s best friend. Having a new puppy in the home is a wonderful and exciting experience for the whole family to enjoy. Unfortunately, raising a young puppy is a lot like caring for a newborn baby. The puppy does not yet know how to care for itself and as a result you will need to train the puppy how to find its food bowl and learn where to go when it has to potty. Training the puppy how to find its food is rather simple; the puppy knows that it will not eat until it finds the food. As a...

•The Importance Of Dog Collars
Dog collars provide several functions. A dog collar can be used to hold an identification tag, display the dog's license, or provide an anchor for the dog's leash. Collars come in a variety of types, sizes, and materials. When selecting a collar for your dog, the animal's breed, size, weight, and disposition need to be considered. Most dogs will be suited to a nylon or leather collar. The importance of dog collars is that they allow pets to be identified and help keep them safe, as well...

•What s the Truth About Dog Intelligence
Ask any dog owner which dog is smartest and he’s likely to tell you it’s his dog. That’s just the way dog lovers are. So you can imagine that when it comes to trying to make some objective observations about which dogs or breeds of dogs are most intelligent, it can be hard to find anyone who doesn’t have a dog in the fight, so to speak. Still, there have been some brave souls who have tried to measure dog intelligence. Dr. Stanley Coren wrote a very controversial book in the 1990s called The...

•How and Why to Crate Train a Puppy
For many new dog owners, housetraining is one of the most challenging parts of introducing a new canine into the family. Until that puppy learns how to go outside, chances are that you’ll be spending quite a bit of time cleaning up messes and dreading the smell when you open your front door. But many people struggle with understanding the best way to teach their puppy how to go not only where you want but also when you want. After all, having your puppy on a schedule for using the bathroom is...

•Popular Dog Breeds
There are more than 100 different recognized dog breeds, some of which are more popular than others. Classification of these breeds varies in different countries, although broadly speaking most accept broad categories that include sporting breeds, hounds, working and non-working breeds, terrier breeds and toy dogs. Sporting breeds include Pointers, Retrievers, Setters and Spaniels, all of which are popular breeds that are sometimes called gundogs, because they are trained to find and flush out...

•Training Your Dog to Meet New People
Most dogs love attention so they have a natural desire to seek out new people who might provide more attention. While it might be cute to see your dog excited to meet someone new, it can be quite terrifying for the other person. Remember it’s hard to tell an aggressive dog from an excited one, especially for people who don’t know that much about animals. For this reason, you need to teach your dog the proper way to meet and greet new people. You don’t want to stop him from meeting people....

•Stop A Dog From Begging
Dog begging is one of the more difficult habits to break. Nothing can be more heart-wrenching than a dog begging while looking at you with those big sad eyes while you are eating. It almost seems as if their eyes are talking to you, and you know what they would say if they could talk: Please, just an itty-bitty piece of potato, or chicken, or roast beef. Pretty Please? You can see it in their eyes; it almost seems as if they have tears. Your dog does not actually have to be pawing at you or...

•Dog Training Harness
One of the many things you may want to get for your dog when starting to train them is a good, sturdy dog training harness, as part of your dog supplies to have. A good harness should fit comfortably on your dog and have enough padding to prevent any escaping or injuries that could occur while wearing the harness. Having your dog wear a harness is a way to keep better control when walking your dog. Pulling a dog by the neck using a choke chain is really uncomfortable. Also a tugging dog will...