I am getting a lot of inquiries these days about teaching dogs and puppies to ring bells to ask to go out in the yard to toilet. I have taught several dogs to do this, and it really isn’t difficult.

One morning this week, one of our puppy clients went to the park with their young dog… A few minutes into their play, along came another car, which stopped… the driver opened her door and two big dogs leapt out and immediately charged and grabbed the puppy

Stress and anxiety in puppies and dogs is something that we often see and many fail to recognize. 

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

People have a variety of reasons for holding off on getting their pups, and most often we hear that they don’t want to go through the early puppy training. 

Puppies change dramatically between 8 weeks when we get them, and 10 weeks when we start taking them into the wider world and 12 weeks when they are most like what people think a puppy will be like.

So just what does a normal dog to human greeting look like? Normal greetings may be enthusiastic but they should not be frantic.

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

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. 

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. 

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.