How to Teach Your Dog to Be a Good Dining Companion
These days, thanks to coronavirus, more and more restaurants are offering outdoor dining, and many are allowing dogs to accompany their humans, as some...
How to Teach a ‘You Choose’ Cue
Introduce choice to your dogs by teaching a 'You Choose' cue.
Life Lessons Learned From Training Dogs
When I first started to learn about training, it was in the world of competitive dog obedience. In that specialized niche, dog training was...
Crate Expectations: What You Need to Know About Your Dog’s Crate
I first learned about crate-training for dogs in the early 1980s and have been a big fan ever since. There are many advantages to having...
Why It’s Important to Teach Your Dog to Trade
Sometimes we need to take things away from our dog and that’s when the trade trick becomes vital. Here’s how to teach your dog to trade.
The Play Way for Shy and Fearful Dogs
Play is a widespread feature of social animals. Humans play. Dogs play. Maybe our shared need for and love of play is part of...
How to Teach Your Dog to Wait
Old-fashioned training (the kind I grew up with) was mostly “don’t do stuff” – as in “Sit, Stay, Behave!” – where “Behave” meant “Don’t...
Protocol for Teaching a Safe “Trade” With Your Dog
Start with your dog on a leash and either stand on the end of the leash or tether him to something solid so he...
The “I Come In Peace” Guarding-Modification Protocol
This article is a sidebar/companion piece to "Changing of the Guarder: Resource Guarding in Dogs."
This guarding-modification protocol, created by my friend and fellow trainer...
Resource Guarding in Dogs: What You Need To Know
Resource-guarding in dogs – that is, protecting valuable possessions – is a natural, normal behavior. Yet at some point we humans developed the arrogant...
5 Indoor Dog Games for When You Can’t Go Out
Here are some of our favorite brain activities to help you and your dog survive the coronavirus shutdown.
How to Prevent Your Dog From Bugging You When You’re Working From Home
A whole lot of dog owners are working from home now, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Lots of dogs are loving it – and...
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The “Magic” Skunk Formula is Science, Not Magic…
Decades ago, a chemist named Paul Krebaum (may his name be honored forever) cracked the chemical code of the stinky, sulfur-containing substances called “thiols” that are in the musk that skunks spray to defend themselves. Krebaum harnessed the power of oxidation, formulating a solution that changes the odorous thiols into odorless acids. He shared the recipe with a workplace friend who had been complaining about the smell of his cat, who had been skunked. Soon, other scientists heard about the formula and it went viral!