If you have six dogs in the dog park who know each other, but not well and one person brings a toy into the dog park, then chaos often ensues.

Everyone wants their dogs to take treats gently and a lot of work in the early stages of dog training goes into making dogs take food gently and carefully, but what does a gentle mouth really tell us about the dog?

I have been reflecting a lot on how people choose the dogs they live with. At Dogs in the Park, I see all kinds of dogs

I am starting a new section on the blog where I am going to feature people I know who breed dogs carefully and thoughtfully to help people to learn a little more about who breeders are. 

One of the reasons that people have dogs is as a living alarm.  Our dogs tell us when the mailman is at the door, when a guest has arrived and sometimes when the birds land on the birdfeeder. 

In our EVERY PUPPY DESERVES PUPPY CLASS, John ,The Puppy Guy will guide you through our three information packed weeks of puppy class FOR FREE. 

There are very few things that are universally true in any field, but there are some common threads about what every dog needs. 

I have been noticing a trend lately in handling new dogs who arrive in class.  The people handling these dogs arrive with their dogs leading them into the training hall, often straining on leash. 

One of the most important jobs we have as families who live with dogs is to advocate on behalf of our dogs when things don’t go the way we think they should. 

Imagine you woke up tomorrow morning and you had no way to communicate with the people you lived with. 

Here are my top 9 things to teach a puppy to ensure he will be successful regardless of what might happen later on.

I am not actually going to list all 10,000 ways not buy puppy, but I would like to share a few of the common mistakes I have seen people make when purchasing a puppy. 

The key to remember about visiting someone’s home with a dog is that for the most part, we visit people to fulfill our social needs, not to fulfill the dog’s social needs. 

One important part of our way of puppy raising is to let the puppies learn through experience what happens if they do certain things. 

Here are my top 9 things to teach a puppy to ensure he will be successful regardless of what might happen later on.

It would surprise most people to know that most professional dog trainers take their puppies to puppy class. 

Periodically, we run a guest blog that we call “Featured Breeder”, featuring breeders we have met who breed dogs we have met who really impressed us! 

The price of the dog is something that many people are very concerned about, and often without a lot of background information about what they are paying for.