Puppy Pad Training Tips and Videos.Puppy Pad Training, can be an extremely difficult process.When you first bring your fluffy new Puppy home, its all...
Saying goodbye
Not many things tug at my heart strings and cause me to reach for the tissues, but dogs are the exception. So you can imagine how I was when it came to...
Wow what a day !!
I had a fabulous day yesterday at the Coniston Show, held at Coniston Hall. The pitch for my stand could not have been better - on the shores of the lake....
Labradors come and go and come again
Hugo and Max, my Black Lab guests have completed their training and returned home to Bedfordshire. Replacing them are Fudge and Bailey, two Yellow Labradors....
Battle of the Giants
Finally, Honey has met a dog she can look straight into the eyes of without suffering neck strain - and shes loving every minute of it! Tilly is here...
Chesters Mud Bath
Chester likes water !Clean, muddy, warm or cold, this is one young dog who loves H2o.However ........... he doesnt enjoy it when its coming out of my...
Breakfast for Harvey
Promoting my business as "luxury home boarding" has just become a whole lot easier with Harvey insisting on having breakfast in bed !"Everything to your...
Goodbye Teddie Hello Tilly
Recently Ive had a young Border Collie staying with me, who if truth be told, proved to be quite a challenge - and I couldnt understand why.Arriving for...
Meet Poppy
How can you tell someone, in a subtle way, that they are not as important as you?Well in the dog world it appears that the answer lays in the bed. Honey...
Train N Treat Helping your Dog Cope with Something Scary
From Tuesday 1 Oct 2013, cheerfuldogs.com will post a "Train N Treat" column which will be available every alternate Tuesday until...
Meet Merlin the Australian Labradoodle
For some dogs, chasing a stick is so much fun. And judging by the photo below, Milly and Barney are having a great time - even if Barneys chain is blinding...
Playtime for Honey and Buddy
Buddy has stayed overnight, much to the delight of Honey. These two dogs revel in each others company and I think the photos below pretty much sum things...
Positive Reinforcement Positive Punishment
I wanted to take a few moments to talk about some of the basics of Operant conditioning, the system that I utilize to teach and train dogs. When I began...
Train N Treat Doggy Life Skill 7 The Sociable Confident Dog
Today, in our dog-friendly training tip for enlightened dog lovers - Chief Cheery Officer (CCO) Kiyo shows how learning an appropriate set of life and...
Dealing with Dog Separation Anxiety
Separation anxiety in dog is a sad behavior problem to see but a very important one to address. Dogs who dont like being left alone are unhappy and unhealthy...
A Day in Your Dogs Fur
The more I’m around dogs the more I realized how they hold the secret to a happy life. No, I don’t mean butt sniffing and leg humping (although I do enjoy...
Train N Treat Dog Stress Alert 1 Head Turn
In our new series of dog-friendly training secrets for enlightened dog lovers - Chief Cheery Officer (CCO) Kiyo recommends that we pay lots of attention to understanding if a dog is stressed. Theres good and bad stress. Good stress prompts a dog to continue learning, bad stress causes a dog to shut down. Just because a dog is still and seems obedient, it doesnt mean that its comfortable. So read the signs carefully.
Dog Stress Alert #1: Head Turn
An important part of being a good dog owner is being able to read how our dog is responding to us or to being in a certain situation. That means that we need to be able to identify our dog’s stress signals – they tell us if our dog is still enjoying itself, it’s merely tolerating what’s happening, or it has had enough.
In this photo, the girl appears to be gently restraining the dog. But the dog has turned its head away and its body language suggests that it’s trying to move away from the girl. The dog is merely tolerating being held – turning its head away is a stress signal, which has been ignored.
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