If you ever play fetch with your pooch, then you have probably experienced one of three possible outcomes: the dog did not want to fetch the item, the dog fetched the item and did not return it, or the dog fetched the item and returned it. Wouldn’t it be nice if all dogs would give up the fetched item so easy? If your dog likes to add a game of tug-of-war on to the end of fetch, then you are in luck. You can use this behavior to help train your pooch to retrieve! (…)
Puppies are very similar to human children when it comes to their growth and learning stages. As an owner, knowing these stages can help you train and teach your puppy, while understanding more about why your puppy acts the way he does. If your dog is no longer a puppy, then having a grasp on the different stages can help you pinpoint where training may have gone awry. The following information is not set-in-stone, scientific data. Rather, it is intended to be used as a guideline for understanding puppy behavior. (…)
Animal Assisted therapy has been around since 1961 and was first written and studied about by child psychologist, Dr. Boris Levinson. (…)