Hot Weather Dog Safety: 8 Summer Mistakes That Can Hurt Your Dog
Hot Weather and Your Dog: What Every Owner Needs to Know Hot Weather Dog Safety: 8 Summer Mistakes That Can Hurt Your Dog Memorial Day tends to mark the unofficial beginning of summer. The lake fills up. Backyards come alive. Families spend more time outside….
Why Dogs “Forget” How to Speak Dog — And How Structured Daycare Helps | Kansas City Dog Training
🐾 Why Some Dogs “Forget” How to Speak Dog — And Why Daycare Can Help Why Dogs “Forget” How to Speak Dog — And How Structured Daycare Helps | Kansas City Dog Training Have you ever taken a foreign language in high school…
Crates and Kennels in Dog Training — It’s Not the Tool, It’s the Application | Dog Trainer Kansas City
🐾 Crates, Kennels, and Common Sense — It’s Not the Tool, It’s the Application Crates and Kennels in Dog Training — It’s Not the Tool, It’s the Application | Dog Trainer Kansas City Every few years, the dog world revisits the same conversation: Are crates…
Kansas City Dog Trainer: The Importance of Positive Reinforcement Training for Your Dog
Kansas City dog trainer: The Importance of Positive Reinforcement Training for Your Dog: The use of positive reinforcement for dog training simply means that you reward the behaviors you like and ignore those you don’t. A quality Kansas City dog trainer should know that positive…
Getting a Puppy for the Holidays? Read This Before You Make a Big Mistake
🎄 Thinking About Getting a Puppy for the Holidays? Read This First (Before You Regret It) Getting a Puppy for the Holidays? Read This Before You Make a Big Mistake Every year around the holidays, I see it happen. Someone decides that a new…
Do Shock Collars Hurt? What This Viral Video Reveals About “Static Corrections”
⚡ Shock Collars Don’t Hurt? Watch This Before You Decide Do Shock Collars Hurt? What This Viral Video Reveals About “Static Corrections” You already know how I feel about shock collars. You also know I tend to use humor when I’m trying to…
A Wagging Tail Doesn’t Mean a Happy Dog — What Most Owners Get Wrong
🐾 A Wagging Tail Doesn’t Always Mean a Happy Dog A Wagging Tail Doesn’t Mean a Happy Dog — What Most Owners Get Wrong Most people see a wagging tail and immediately think,“Oh, that dog is friendly.” Sometimes that’s true. Sometimes it’s very, very…
Does Your Dog Need to “Respect” You to Listen?
🐾 Dominance vs. Positive Reinforcement: Looking at the Facts Does Your Dog Need to “Respect” You to Listen? There has been a long-standing discussion in the dog training world about dominance, “alpha” roles, and leadership within the household. Over time, that conversation has evolved…
How to Choose the Right Dog Trainer
How to Choose the Right Dog Trainer So there you sit, staring at a computer screen full of dog trainers. Your spouse has made it painfully clear: if you don’t get your dog’s fill-in-the-blank behavior under control, either you or the dog is going to…
Why is it so damn hard to get my dog to “Lay Down”
OK, this one is a pretty common question from my students/clients, but it really seems to confuse folks. When you really get down to it, this makes total sense. Ask yourself the question “What is the most submissive position a dog can give”? Is it…
