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Regular vet visits are essential to maintaining a dog's health and preventing illnesses or diseases. They provide an opportunity for a thorough examination of your dog's physical and behavioral health and can help to catch any potential health issues before they become serious. However, despite the importance of regular vet visits, some dogs can become stubborn or uncooperative during these appointments. This can make the experience stressful for the dog and the owner and make it difficult for the vet to perform a thorough examination. In this article, we explain how to help make the experience better.

If given the opportunity to build excitement and focus in your dog, improve their behavior, exercise their brain, body, and senses, and build your relationship with them, wouldn’t you do it? Positive reinforcement training, or simply reinforcement training, offers all of these benefits and many more. Yet, not everyone is sold. This article explains why positive reinforcement training is the best form of training for your dog!

Dogs come in a wide range of activity levels. Some are hyperactive, some are laid back, and many fall somewhere in between. Having been developed for different purposes, each dog breed has its own average level of activity. Is your dog more laid back or energetic? Keep reading to find out more about how your dog's breed and energy level play a role in trainability.

Sometimes our dogs become so important to us that we spoil them. This can look like giving them more treats than they really need or carrying them all the time. These and other little actions may not seem so bad, but they can lead to a significant threat to your dog’s health — obesity. There are a few things you can do to help prevent this and other health issues. At the top of the list is daily walks. Here's why!

It's normal, natural, and, to a dog, it's necessary. However, to people, it can be a real nuisance. Dogs don’t always understand the difference between when their barking is needed and when it’s too much. So how can an owner communicate back to their dog when the barking needs to stop? In this article, we look at the barking from the dog's point of view while offering some easy and practical tips to help fix barking issues!