Category Archives: Training Tools

Skills that you and your dog should have in your tool box for a happy life together.

Troubleshooting Fetch

Fetch is probably the most well-known game when we think of playing with dogs and it’s usually the fist game we try to play with puppies. Some dogs understand and enjoy playing fetch as soon as they can hold a … Continue reading

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Fetch

Fetch is synonymous with dogs and their humans. This article focuses on fetch 101, if you are having problems teaching your dog how to fetch the next doglifetraining article will help you troubleshoot your particular issues. Fetch is all about … Continue reading

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Shutdown

Dogs become distracted just like us when something particularly good or scary is around. They can get totally caught up in a moment where everything else simply disappears, us included, this is called shutdown. There are many different degrees of … Continue reading

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Celebrate The Small Victories

Training a dog is a marathon rather than a sprint. When you first bring your dog home he will take a few years to develop skills and maturity to be able to apply those skills in all situations. In the … Continue reading

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Rehearsals

The more a skill is practiced the better we become at it, the same holds true for our dogs. Rehearsals not only help us develop our dog handling skills they also help our dogs become proficient at certain skills, you … Continue reading

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