Daylight’s Fading… Five Tips To Help!
In just over two weeks (11/4), we’ll set our clocks back an hour and return to Standard Daylight Time. The good news is we’ll get an extra hour of sleep in the process. Continue reading
Expert Advice on Shelter Dogs
Recently, Steve Appelbaum, our founder and CEO, was interviewed on “Teacher’s Pet”, a podcast hosted by ABC graduate Nan Talleno, ABCDT. Steve spoke about the care, needs and challenges associated with shelter dogs. His key insight may answer some of your most immediate questions Continue reading
ABC Promotes Exercise As Best Medicine For Dogs & People
Exercise As Best Medicine For Dogs & People
A professional school for dog trainers, such as Animal Behavior College, will be the first to tell you how important exercising your dog is, with at least 30 minutes recommended per day. Even with factors of age, breed, and current health issues, you’ll want to preserve and invigorate them with exercise levels appropriate to their needs. Many pet owners also enjoy physical activity and exercising together can save time, build greater companionship, and increase a healthy lifestyle for both of you. Continue reading
Squeak Toys For Dogs – Fun Training Tool Tip
Squeaky Dog Toys – Training Pros and Cons
Animal Behavior College, a leading Dog Training School, promotes healthy play toys that invigorate interaction between dogs and their owners. Most all dogs enjoy squeaky toys and they can be great tools for fetching, tug-of-war, and stretching games.
Adopting Your Dog – Tips From Animal Behavior College
Tips For Adopting A Dog
Having a dog can be an exciting addition to your life and home. Yet, how to choose a dog can be a challenge. Even people who become a dog trainer or have an interest in animal careers understand that knowing what kind to buy, a breed’s unique characteristics, where to buy a dog, can be a daunting task. Animal Behavior College provides valuable tools that can help the process so your purchase experience becomes a responsible and gratifying one. Continue reading
Training Your Dog To Stop Barking
How To Stop Dog Barking
Wondering how to stop your dog from barking? Dog Training Schools like Animal Behavior College understand the challenges faced when teaching a dog to stop barking. Skills taught in animal careers that ensure success are important to identify when choosing an effective program. One very common behavior many dog owners experience is barking at inappropriate times. ABC’s professionals offer tips on how to teach a dog to stop barking once it has started. Continue reading
Shake a Paw Dog Training Tip
How to Train Your Dog to Shake a Paw
Dog Trainer Schools, like Animal Behavior College, that promote the well being of your pooch, love to pass on fun training tips as well as essential ones. Teaching your pup how to shake hands or ‘give me your paw’ is a great way to keep the fun going.
A great way to teach this fun trick is to capture the behavior, reward it and then name it. Since most dogs will paw you to get your attention, it is easy to ‘catch’ the behavior.
Here is a simple way to teach the ‘shake’ cue. Continue reading
Teaching Your Dog How to Roll Over – Tips from Animal Behavior College Trainers
Tips On How To Train Your Dog To Rollover
Teaching your pooch to rollover is a fun trick to practice but it also can be a ‘gateway’ cue for additional training like teaching your dog to relax. Since many cues build upon other cues, teaching your dog as many cues as possible can offer good exercise while building a ladder to other training. Rollover is just such a gateway cue.
Initial steps to train your pup to rollover are these: Continue reading
How To Teach A Dog To Stay – Tips From One Of Nations Leading Dog Training Schools, Animal Behavior College
How To Teach a Dog to Stay
A leader in Dog Training Schools, Animal Behavior College prepares students for one of the most basic pet exercises in Animal Careers: The Stay Cue – Teaching a Dog to Stay.
Many pet owners love to enjoy the outdoors with their pets. For some, this can be challenging if your dog has not mastered the stay cue. Whether you are at a social outing, a dog park, or any other public location, you will want to train your dog to stay when confronted with increased distractions.
The stay cue is a great exercise to increase your dog’s capacity to tolerate distractions, building his/her attention span, while increasing his focus and response to you. As with all learning cues, repetition is important until the cue is successfully learned. Continue reading