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Pack Law: Understand It & Become Top Dog

by Avril Munson Of The Central School Of Dog Training

What is ‘Pack law’? Whenever there are two or more dogs together, the dogs will decide who is superior to whom. Often this is decided quickly and painlessly, because of vastly differing size or age.

Or can take up to two weeks. Where two dogs will not live together, it is because there is not a clear winner. Occasionally, human intervention is the cause. Unwittingly in trying to be fair, we treat both dogs equally. Or we give the natural under dog too much status and create warfare.

For dogs there must always be a leader and a number 2, 3, all the way to the bottom! Continue

Puppy Training: The Golden Opportunity For Prime Puppy Training: Brand new puppies literally absorb everything that passes through their senses. Whatever they see, hear, taste, smell, and touch, it all gets stored in their brains just like a computer.

Vast amounts of information are constantly being downloaded into a puppy’s mind about the people they come across, places they visit, and responses from all stimuli, whether it is from the form of communication it receives from people or the scary sounds of vehicles moving by outside. Continue

PDSA vets reveal that many common beliefs about keeping a pet turn out to be false. Here are 10 examples.

1. Dogs see in black and white
Wrong. Dogs can see colour.

Although they seem to have limited colour vision – red/green/yellow all seem similar to them – they can distinguish blue objects.

Though a dog’s overall vision is worse than ours, they have much better night vision and, of course, a much better sense of smell! Continue

The 100 Greatest Dog Training Tips of All Time, e-Book is an invaluable tool that can not only help you overcome individual problems with your dog but can also show you some new hints and tips from the world’s top dog experts.

10 greatest puppy training tips
10 greatest socialisation techniques
10 greatest tips for dealing with dominance
10 greatest tips for teaching the recall
10 greatest tips for teaching tricks
10 greatest tips for dealing with aggression
10 greatest tips for perfect heel walking
10 greatest tips for training the older dog
10 greatest tips for getting a dog happy to travel
10 greatest tips for coping with a naughty dog

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Every dog has its day. That’s the way the saying goes, but how do you make sure your dog gets its 15 minutes of fame?

Dogs have been used in the media for decades. A dog conveys a message of innocence, of humour, of fun and of honesty. Corporations that have absolutely nothing to do with dogs, use them to promote products are far ranging as toilet roll, music, alcohol and even cars as the latest (very funny) Volkswagen advert goes to show. Continue

Your dog is an important part of your family, your best friend even, and for these two reasons you will want to take lots of pictures of him or her.

Achieving that precious shot that will last a lifetime may not be as easy at it seems. Here’s the K9Online.com Guide To: Taking The Perfect Pet Photograph

A dog is like any other subject in terms of photography technique – composition, focusing and exposure being the three main areas to perfect, the fourth and most problematic, is getting ‘subject participation’. Continue

Death Of The Family Pet: A Proper Goodbye To Your Faithful Friend: As the words of a sad, but sweet, eulogy was echoed over the loudspeaker of a public address system, a spotlight began to slowly illuminate an object in the center of the show ring: a leash, attached to an empty training collar.

The Occasion?

It was graduation night for an obedience training class. As the graduating dogs sat silently by their owners, one spot in a row was obviously vacant. One of the dogs who was to have graduated had been struck and killed by an automobile just the night before.

The trainer continue to explain to those present that “A new sentry was on duty in Heaven… that the greatest animal trainer of all had seen fit to call little Chu Chu to duty elsewhere.” And finally, just before the graduation ceremonies began, a trophy was presented to the owner of the missing graduate. The trophy was inscribed, In Loving Memory, Chu Chu, Always First Place In Our Hearts….{+}

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Backyard Party – How To Host A Successful BBQ With Dogs In Mind: The next time you decide to put on a small barbecue party in your backyard during the warm, sunny summer months, make considerations for your dog and other guest’s dogs. Most friend and family gatherings are planned and entertained without a single thought of providing an atmosphere where both dogs and people can enjoy themselves together.

And consider for a moment just how more pleasant the atmosphere will be with your close friends and dear family members enjoying themselves with a drink and a good hamburger on the deck of your house, while just off the corner of your eye your dog is having the time of his life, chasing and being chased by other guest’s pet dogs. Continue