Training

Remember when you were a kid and your mom would catch you doing something you weren’t supposed to be doing, even though she wasn’t...

Not long ago, I got to take a weekend off in San Diego. On the first day, quite by accident, I ended up at...

I recently learned a new word: haptic. It refers to any technology involving the sense of touch, so vibration collars are technically “haptics,” and...

Vibration collars are frequently suggested as a good tool for communicating with hearing-impaired dogs. I hadn’t had much experience with them, so when I...

I found the concept of a vibration collar potentially useful. But in practice, there were a number of things I didn’t like about the...

All dogs have noses – and they all know how to use them. Our awareness of our dog’s nose capabilities is nothing new. We...

If competition isn’t your thing, you can do a simpler activity at home with your dog that we call Nose Games. You can do...

When Orbit came into one of the classes I offer for puppies and their owners, in Santa Cruz, California, he was in most ways...

These days, it seems that every time someone posts a picture on social media of a child with a dog it is immediately followed...

Does your dog understand what behavior you wish her to perform when you use verbal cues alone, with absolutely no hand gestures or suggestive...

Once you train your dog to stay on cue, the behavior can come in handy. In the past week alone, I’ve asked my dog to stay a number of times.

Usually humping is associated with male dogs, but humping is also very common amongst female dogs. Some girls will hump toys or other objects, some hump air, others hump other dogs or even people. To learn more about humping, why girls do it, and how to keep your female dog from humping, we talk with Certified Professional Dog Trainer and Chair of The Association of Professional Dog Trainers Nick Hof, CPDT-KA, CBCC-KA, KPA-CTP, CSAT, to answer some of your most commonly asked questions about female dogs and humping.