Hi John, I have a working spayed alpha Maremma. She had a history of being a “social” dog until her guarding instincts forced her to look for another line of work and at 4 years of age I adopted her. As you know Maremmas are intelligent. After two long years of training she does her […]
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Over the years I’ve helped thousands of people with telephone consultations. Given an opportunity to listen to your story and ask a few questions, you’ll find that with twenty years and thousands of trained dogs behind me I’ll have a pretty good idea of what’s going on and how best to help you. Fee is
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Hi John Why is it so important a dog heel during the entire walk? Why should the entire walk be at your feet? Dogs are curious, it’s a big, wide world out there. Why do people feel the need to force everything to conform to what they want without giving anything? My dog completely freaks
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Dear John, I have a black Labrador Retriever. He wants to pull all the time on walks and he chokes himself until he coughs. -D. N. Hi D. N. I’ll bet he doesn’t think he’s pulling. My guess is he thinks you’re choking him while he’s trying to do something really really fun. Most dog
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Dear John, We own a 1 yr. old black Labrador Retriever, he’s has been crate trained since he was 3 months old and just recently we have started giving him full roam of the first floor of our house and he had been pretty good for awhile, but just recently he has started destroying things,
Hi John, We have a very nice well-behaved 3 year old dog named Mabel. We also have an almost one-year-old yellow lab named Daisy. Since Daisy arrived Mabel’s behaviour has changed. She has turned into what seems like an “old lady”. She has lost all of her “zip” and playfulness and looks sad often. We