by Louise Stapleton-Frappell | Nov 3, 2015 | Training
An excerpt from an upcoming article in BARKS from The Guild. Why do I love teaching tricks and why do my dogs love learning them? Why would you want to teach your dog tricks? What are tricks, anyway? How old...
by PPGWorld | Nov 3, 2015 | Advocacy, Current Events, Pet Guardians, Training
You may be wondering what exactly are the benefits of joining a member organization such as PPG so we’ve decided to help you out by listing a mere...
by Claire Staines | Oct 20, 2015 | Training
Well the simple answer to that is NO! Of course we know that. If anybody asked you that question nowadays you’d probably be very amused. Why do I ask this on a dog training blog I hear you say? Well, …
by Eileen Anderson | Oct 15, 2015 | Animal Behavior, Training
I charged straight into a positive punishment scenario by accident recently. I’ve been somewhat in the training doldrums lately, probably because I am putting so much energy into finishing my book. I have several training activities that I fall back...
by Carolyn Kocman | Oct 13, 2015 | Animal Behavior, Training
Humans take years to learn socialization skills. In the process of growing from infant to adulthood, the human takes more than 20 years for his or her brain to fully develop. Yet during this time there is much socialization that …
