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Guide for Dog Lovers offers 14 great tips and tricks to make the most of a dog's life. Learn how to groom, feed and exercise your dog to help them reach their ultimate potential. All projects come from Instructables.com, are written by dog-care experts, and contain pictures for each step so you can spend less time maintaining your pet's well-being and more time playing!
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Sarah James
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Instructables is the most popular project-sharing community on the Internet. We provide easy publishing tools to enable passionate, creative people like you to share their most innovative projects, recipes, skills, and ideas. Instructables has over 40,000 projects covering all subjects, including crafts, art, electronics, kids, home improvement, pets, outdoors, reuse, bikes, cars, robotics, food, decorating, woodworking, costuming, games, and more. Check it out today!
Sarah James
Editor, Food & Living
Instructables.com
she has only barked once since the time we got her last yea.When she barked she was with another dog we broght over for a playdate cause she wanted to play.She is aproximately a 2 1/2 year old boxer female help me get my dog to bark!!
After a few times with treats, start giving treats every other time, then every time you feel like he's done a particularly good job.
Id highly recommend looking up Zak George's videos on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/zakgeorge21 He has loads of useful tips on communicating with your dog effectively and really handy training videos on teaching your dog various things.
That way, if they're hungry, they know they can just go and get something without having to beg, which has another useful knock-on effect in that they become less possessive about food, because they know they're not going to go hungry whatever happens.
We've looked after dogs for other people which were quite possessive over food, but they got the hang of it very quickly, and dropped their old habits within a couple of days.
After a few times with treats, start giving treats every other time, then every time you feel like he's done a particularly good job.
Id highly recommend looking up Zak George's videos on youtube. He has loads of useful tips on communicating with your dog effectively and really handy training videos on teaching your dog various things.
If they try to beg, take them to another room and leave them there while you finish your meal etc. Before long, they'll get the idea that to be part of your "pack" they can't beg for food.
An alternative is to ignore them completely, and don't give them ANY scraps when they beg, whether you've finished with the food or not - my wife says she thought this method worked best with our two dogs.
Of course, if you're happy to continue giving them scraps, do it by your rules - if they don't beg, they get some as and when you're ready, but not before. A good way of reinforcing this is to give them the scraps elsewhere from where you're eating.