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Why teach your dog how to skateboard? Learning any new trick is fun for both you and your dog and increases your bond. Plus, skateboarding teaches balance and confidence, and whose dog couldn’t use more of that?
Paul J. Kearney
Paul J. Kearney of PawesomeDogs.com is a professional teamwork coach and dog trainer who has been helping dogs and their humans with learning for over 25 years. A life with and for dogs.
Going camping with dogs is not routine, and the environments are always filled with many different and even strange sights, smells and sounds. Here are some tips.
Getting our dogs’ attention is truly a foundation skill. It’s a signal for your dog to look toward you and to be mindful of what will follow. This can be a verbal signal, such as their name, or an audible signal like a “kissy” noise.
There are games you can teach your thieving pup that are also preventable security measures in themselves, so these alternative behaviors become part of our lives together instead of caper after caper. Check out these three games.
The human half of the dog-human team is important. Beyond the love we give our dogs and how we meet their needs, there are specific skills we can improve on to help our dogs learn more successfully.
You’ve adopted a rescue dog. Now what? Here are some tips on what to focus on first, before you even begin the training.
Sharing the joy and love of being on the water stand-up paddleboarding with your dog can be fun, especially if your dog loves water. Here’s how to do it.
Be proactive with thought-out, structured and mutually beneficial instructions.
Is your dog bored, stressed, over or understimulated? Try 15 minutes of play.
Snow + furry teammates + cross country skis = Skijoring!
Recall at its core is getting your dog’s attention and, when you do, asking him to “Come” to you and, when he gets to you, rewarding him for doing so.
Using capturing is like being a game-show host narrating spectacular key moments and giving out prizes in the form of food rewards.
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