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 with a [...]

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 live [...]

By Dianna Young
Let me tell you about one of my favorite dogs. Her name is Lady, and she’s a Labrador Retriever that belongs to one of our boarding clients. Lady is a wonderful dog. She has spent a lot of time in our kennel, and we have come to know her very well and to [...]

By Dianna Young
The way you communicate your decisions, as pack leader, to your dog make a fundamental difference in the results that you get. You can do it effectively either verbally or non-verbally, and you can do it non-verbally with or without a leash. The most important thing, however, is always to communicate your decisions [...]

By Dianna Young
One of my dog-boarding clients came to me recently with a serious concern: She had taken her dog through an obedience course, she said, but the animal had forgotten everything it learned.
“When is the last time you trained with your dog?” I asked the woman.
“Oh, two years ago,” she said. “When we were [...]