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5 Ways To Optimize Your Day With Your Dog training tips

For the past couple years it feels like I have become a black belt in cramming as many things in a day as possible. However, for the past couple months it has been a refreshing feeling to go at a much...

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Be Realistic With Your Expectations puppy raising training tips

The best thing about what I do as a dog trainer is to provide the coaching and guidance for dog owners to live life optimally with their dogs. To deepen the relationship they share, teach them how to ...

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Be The Bowl keendog essentials training tips

Channel your inner Yoda when viewing your relationship with your dog. You see how exuberant your dog gets when you fill up his bowl for meals – well, you should be the bowl. The relationship you share...

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Why Your Dog Won’t Listen training tips

Have you ever been to a foreign country or with a group of individuals who speak a different dialect than you? It can be overwhelming trying to understand what others are saying when you don’t know wh...

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Goals & Habits training tips

It’s the year 2020 and what better way to start the year than going over your goals you have for you and your dog. Goals are accomplished through your daily habits and rituals, so ask yourself what cu...

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3 Words Your Dog Should Know training tips

When getting a new dog there are a slew of articles, training tips, books and so forth that can surely make your head spin. To a new dog owner it can be a little overwhelming. Over time consistency is...

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3 Tips to Fight Against Training Frustration training tips

How many times have you been to a lesson or a group class and come away from it feeling a bit beaten up? Your pup may not have been listening, which caused you to get frustrated, they started listenin...

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Elevator Manners training tips

How many of you live in a place where the elevator is a daily part of your dog’s training? There are several different perspectives to examine when considering how to make these rides more enjoyable f...

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5 Dont’s Most People Do training tips

Dog training is completely unnatural. Everything you’re supposed to do is exactly the opposite of what you instinctively want to do. When you think about it, us following our human instinct may not be...

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Living in a Multi-Dog Household multi-dog households training tips

“Are those all YOUR animals?!” I get asked this almost daily when people walk by my computer screen in the office and see my collage of animal pictures. It wasn’t until I couldn’t photograph all my an...

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What To Expect When Training Your Dog training tips

Have you ever seen a well-trained dog in public and thought to yourself, “if only my dog was trained like THAT!” You look down at your pooch who’s choking himself trying to get to the perfectly traine...

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The Perks of a Training Vest tools training tips

Charlotte (and many other cities around the country) are increasingly becoming more and more dog friendly. This means having a well behaved pup is an absolute MUST so that establishments continue to a...

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