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Welcome Home: How to Help Your Dogs Greet You Calmly
You're arriving home from a long day at work and all you want to do is kick off your shoes and relax. But there's a hurdle. Your dogs are awaiting your arrival and while it might have been cute at first, the greetings have now gotten out of hand. They are barking,...
Multi Dog Household, Short on Time? Meet Needs FAST!
Multi Dog Household gone a little awry as you deal with the pressures of everyday life? Maybe those long walks and trips to the dog park just aren't fitting into the schedule? Your inattention might be fine for a few days. But eventually that pile of unmet needs comes...
Preparing Your Home: Sample Lecture MDH101: Dog-Dog Introductions and Relationship Building
This is a sample lecture from Wise Mind Canine's online course MDH101: Dog-Dog Introductions and Relationship Building. It's a supply list with detailed explanations meant for preparing your home for success when adding another dog to your life. If you're interested...
The Dog and Puppy Introduction Survival Guide
Are you a new to having a household with multiple dogs? Here's a crash course in both dog-dog introductions and building positive relationships between your canine family members. If you like this blog and want an A to Z step by step guide to your entire introduction...
Fear in Puppies: An Overview and Next Steps
Your puppy experienced something or someone and displayed fear behaviors. How you choose to respond next can mean the difference between recovery and a significant behavioral problem. This is a long and involved subject so bear with me on blog length! Today you'll...
Socialization Experiences: Quality Matters
Have you ever seen Aladdin? Where Jasmine is being drowned in sand as it flows down the hourglass? Socialization can feel a lot like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iRlViQ7rAI If you haven't, here it is! Time is slipping through your fingers and it feels like...
Pandemic Dog Training Challenge 2: The Positive Interrupter, No More Yelling
Say goodbye to yelling at your dog. It's time to interrupt barking (and more), all with a special sound. With so many of us spending more time, in enclosed spaces with our dogs, than ever before, I thought it would be a great moment to teach you how to...
Dog-Dog Introductions: A Custom Solution
Successful dog-dog introductions can set the stage for wonderful relationships between your resident dogs. There are standard, go to, protocols for initial introductions involving parallel walking and meetings in a neutral location. What happens when these options are...
Pandemic Dog Training Challenge 1B: Teaching a Training Language
Now that you are a competent and confident speaker of your chosen markers you can teach your dog! If you have no idea what I'm talking about see Challenge 1A. How do you know if you're ready you ask? Aim for the ability to use your markers correctly 90% of the time or...
Pandemic Dog Training Challenge 1A: Developing a Common Training Language
Before we can get into teaching your dog a behavior we need to give you both a common training language. In part 1A you will learn how to speak it. Ready? Our dogs don't come to us programmed with an understanding of the English language (or whatever language you...