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Dog trainer Joel Silverman’s brought his road show to Columbia, Maryland last night, where he took some jabs at TV trainers who see dominating a dog as a cure-all for behavior problems. “When people talk about being the leader right off the bat, you’ve just opened the door to jeopardizing your relationship with your animal,” Silverman told a crowd at Camp Bow Wow in Columbia. How a dog is trained should be tailored to the dog’s personality, Silverman maintains, and trying to dominate a new

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Stop your dogs behavior problems in their tracks. Whether it be a puppy or adult dog, you cannot allow your dog to rule the roost. Your dog should have completed basic obedience training by the time it is 1 year old. That means trained for the house, leash, and basic sit-stay-down-recall commands as a minimum. If you don’t then your dog will assume the roll of pack leader, which will make your life a misery, and you will find it very difficult to wrest the role back off the dog. Without

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Have you ever wished you could understand dog psychology and get to the root of why your dog has certain behavior problems and training issues? Home dog trainers and dog owners alike are looking to get a better hold on how to mold their dog's behavior. T hanks to a popular TV dog trainer there are many dog owners now interested in dog psychology and in what this term really means. Buzz words in any industry come and go but the term dog psychology isn't so much a buzz word as a means of desc

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D og Obedience Video When you get a puppy, you might not think straight awayabout dog training, but you should. Having a well trained dog can mean the difference between a alm and settled household and a chaotic one. Dog behavior is directly impacted by how much training he has. He needs to have structure and limits in his life. If you don’t provide this, he will, and that can create significant behavior problems in your dog. Why Train Your Dog? No matter your dog’s breed, he is d

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A calm, obedient and faithful dog – it’s what we all want, right? To begin with, obedient and trained dogs are happier dogs, less likely to get into tussles with people or with other dogs. Another reason is that many communities require that the dogs living in their neighborhoods be well trained. This is especially true for many breeds thought to have aggression and behavior problems – large dog breeds such as german shepherds and rottweilers to name a couple. And of course pit bulls are a

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