Dog barking - understand & control it

 
If your dog’s barking and its not clear why, you can quickly identify the type of bark she’s making.

Aggressive or warning bark? If it is, is it directed at you or something else? This type is often the one that needs controlling and where you must avoid being manipulated.
Baying? This is often some form of signal, more common in specific [...]

How Not To Train A Dog

Consistency, persistence, patience, etc. Yep, read it, done it, got the tee-shirt?
Well, repetitive and boring as they sound, these are the main elements of training dogs and several other types of pet. But when you see someone else’s well-behaved dog while you’re still struggling, it’s probably worth a refresher of the things that don’t work in [...]

Dog Training - Passive Dog

Dog behavior training issues are usually associated with assertive dogs. You could be forgiven for thinking that passive dogs should be easy to train.
After all, a passive dog is one that waits for others and seems comfortable letting others lead to the point where it will be last to do everything. One clue to a passive [...]