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Overcoming Reactivity: Common Mistakes and Proven Solutions for Reactive Dogs

Owning a reactive dog can be challenging, often leading dog owners to explore the root cause of their pet’s reactive behavior. However, many often fall into common pitfalls while trying to address this issue. Identifying the mistakes made by reactive dog owners is essential to effectively tackle reactivity in dogs. One of the primary misconceptions […]

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Navigating the World of New Dog Ownership: Making Informed Decisions

Saro / Dog Training, Dog Care

Introduction: Bringing a new dog into your life is an exciting and joyful experience. However, it can also be overwhelming for many new dog owners. The responsibilities and challenges of caring for a dog can sometimes catch us off guard, leading to feelings of stress and uncertainty. In this article, we will explore why new

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Here are the things that I do with my dog every day.

Saro / Dog Care, Dog Diet, Dog Training, General

The book “A Dog’s Five Essential Needs” by Saro Boghozian is a comprehensive guide to understanding and meeting the needs of dogs. The author is a dog behavior specialist and trainer with over 25 years of experience working with dogs and their owners. The book begins by emphasizing the importance of understanding a dog’s nature

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Can You Train a Non-Food Motivated Dog?

Saro / Dog Training

Training dogs who are not food-motivated can be a challenge for many pet owners. The use of food as a reward during training has become a common practice, but not all dogs are motivated by food. Fortunately, there are other ways to train and improve the behavior of dogs who are not food motivated. In

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One Simple Question

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Most dog owners have many questions about dogs, particularly questions about their dog’s behaviour. These questions can be as simple as why my dog does this and that to complex questions such as how to get my dog to be less aggressive. No matter what the questions are and even though they are about our

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What is wrong with my dog?

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Some of you may be thinking that there is something wrong with your dog, but I want to assure you that there is nothing wrong with your dog most of the time. You are only playing the blame game but only 5% of the blame can fall on your dog and the rest is on

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I am having a tough time with my dog.

Saro / Dog Training

This is one of the common sentences that I hear from dog owners. They may say that because of certain things that their dogs do or the way their dogs behave. As a dog owner myself, I can surely relate to this. I go through the same phases and issues that all dog owners go.

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Do we need to use tools to train dogs?

Saro / Featured, Uncategorized

The question that I always struggle to explain to dog owners is the following Do we need to use tools like shock collars, clickers, or even treats, force, or domination to train dogs? The simple answer is NO. Dogs are intelligent animals and it is not necessary to use tools to train them or to

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Lack of proper dog socialization is one of the reasons why dogs misbehave.

Saro / Dog Care, Dog Training

A dog needs to have human and dog time equally and even some dogs enjoy more dog time than human time. Lack of socialization will help to develop unwanted behaviours. I hear so much about this from my clients and dog owners that it is worth sharing my thoughts about this topic with you. Although

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Dog training facts all dog owners need to know.

Dog Training facts all dog owners should know.

Saro / Dog Training, Puppy Training

There are some dog training facts that dog owners need to know before training their dogs. You will learn what these facts are and soon will have a healthy and happy dog. fact Dogs have been part of our families and live for centuries. Domestic dogs have evolved in many ways. One thing that has

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