Training a dog is not for the faint of heart. It requires persistence, patience, and sometimes, creativity and one dog owner, who is known on TikTok as @hannahschibi, exhausted all her options when ...

Training your dog is so important for keeping your life together and making sure your furry buddy doesn’t turn into a total chaos machine. But let’s be real—finding the right approach can feel like ...

Adopting a dog can be one of the most rewarding experiences, but it’s not without its challenges, especially when your new pal brings along bad habits. Difficult and destructive behaviors often have ...

If the dog trainer you are thinking of hiring and relying upon to help train/teach you and your dog cannot logically and satisfactorily explain why they use a specific training method, chances are it ...

Research shows that using aversive dog training methods–like positive punishment–are associated with reports of increased problem behaviors such as fear and aggression. And research also shows a link ...

Dog training builds effective communication between you and your dog. Successful dog training relies on reward-based methods that are rooted in the science of learning. Three professional dog trainers ...

With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, Johns Hopkins University computer scientists showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks, including stacking blocks.

There is an ongoing controversy among dog trainers as to which training methods are best. Put simply, the two sides of the argument can be described as contrasting the effectiveness of training based ...

No matter their age, breed or temperament, every dog can benefit and thrive from dog training We love dogs for being dogs. Their comforting presence as they lie at our feet. Their cute little grunts ...

Photo from left: Anne Swan, Sara Munro, Jill Atamian Hall, Joan Hunter Mayer and Andrea Bratt (Santa Barbara Positive Dog Trainers photo) Noozhawk’s Four-Legged Friends and More Guide is officially ...

I was about a month into raising a new border collie puppy, Alsea, when I came to an embarrassing realization: my dog had yet to meet a person who doesn’t look like me. I’d read several books on ...

After aversive training, dogs had a lower behavioral state (higher stress and anxiety), a new study has found. If aversive methods were used in high proportions, that persisted even in other contexts.