by Andy Sands, Certified Dog Trainer and Behavior Consultant Hello again Suncoast, and welcome back to Training Tuesday! Today, we wrap up the series “Kids, Dogs, and Holiday Celebrations.” It is my hope that you have gleaned some very useful tips from this series as we have entered into the holiday season. And, in fact, […]
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Training Tuesday: Kids, Dogs, and Holiday Celebrations (Part 6)
by Andy Sands, Certified Dog Trainer and Behavior Consultant Hello again Suncoast, and welcome back to Training Tuesday. We are in the middle of the series “Kids, Dogs, and Holiday Celebrations.” We’ve been discussing various things that may make dogs fearful, predominantly during the holidays. We started way back in October, preparing for Halloween, and […]
Training Tuesdays: Kids, Dogs, and Holiday Celebrations (Part 4)
by Andy Sands, Certified Dog Trainer and Behavior Consultant Hello Suncoast, and welcome to November! The last three weeks of Training Tuesday have been all about Halloween, and how to help prepare your dog for the array of ghouls, goblins, spirits, minions, and monsters. Now that Halloween is behind us, we are moving quickly into […]
Training Tuesday – Communicating with your Dog
Communicating with your Dog: Stop Talking by Andy Sands, Certified Dog Trainer and Behavior Consultant It’s Not What You Say Hello once again, Suncoast, and welcome to Training Tuesday. For the last five weeks we have been discussing how to communicate properly with our dogs. In order to have a “meaningful conversation,” with our canine […]
Training Tuesdays – Stop Contributing to Your Dog’s Bad Behavior
Stop Contributing to Your Dog’s Bad Behavior by Andy Sands, Certified Dog Trainer and Behavior Consultant Part IV Happy Training Tuesday Suncoast! For the last several weeks we have been discussing human behaviors that actually contribute to some of the bad behaviors we see in our dogs. We have discussed the first two human behaviors […]
Training Tuesdays – Tips from Good CitiZen Dog Training – Part 5
by Andy Sands, Certified Dog Trainer and Behavior Consultant It’s Training Tuesday once again, and we are on the tail end of the series “The Year of the Dog” in which we are discussing the 10 Resolutions for Rover. We have covered 7 resolutions so far, and today we will explore resolutions 8 and 9. […]