By Dianna Young                         Okay, your dog goes berserk when somebody rings the doorbell. It happens in a lot of households. And a lot of people don’t know what to do about it, so they do nothing.             The problem with doing nothing, however, is that it silently endorses the dog’s behavior. We have [...]

By Dianna Young              I had been working recently with a training client and her two dogs who had been through several obedience training sessions, and they were doing wonderfully well. The woman was intelligent and perceptive, her dogs were likewise, and they all were making great progress.               One day, my client offered [...]

        Professional dog trainers from Camano Island Kennels offer a six-week course in basic dog obedience and dog psychology starting March 7th, 2011 at the Camano Senior and Community Center.         Classes will meet on Mondays from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. They are open to all breeds, 20 weeks and older.    [...]

By Dianna Young You probably already are aware that whatever your dog learns from you he learns through repetition. What you may not be aware of, however, is that he may learn a lot of things from you that you had not  intended to teach. Take, for example, Max. He’s a pleasant, intelligent, medium-sized dog [...]

By Dianna Young In many respects, living with a dog is the same no matter whether the animal is a 150-pound Rottweiler or a four-pound Mexican Chihuahua. A dog is a dog. Dogs think like dogs, behave like dogs, learn the way dogs learn. They all need the same kind of structure in order to [...]