Dog Training & Learning

Positive Training: Teaching a Dog To Walk Nicely on a Lead

This video quickly outlines exercises to get your dog walking on a loose lead by your side. Put very basically FIRST you will teach the dog what you want them to do! And secondly, stop reinforcing them when they pull!

Cesar Millan (Dog Whisperer) Video Broadcast Alliance

Mogulus, the most powerful live broadcast platform on the Internet, announced an alliance with renowned dog expert Cesar Millan’s official online dog coaching course, Sessions with Cesar, to create The Sessions with Cesar Channel. The channel will have regularly scheduled live webcasts for the worldwide audience of Millan’s fans, as well as a selection of [...]

How to Teach a Dog to Lie Down

Never done this before but there’s a first time for everything – and I’m feeling experimental. Since I set this blog up as an addition to K9Magazine.com I’ve had a lot of people email and ask me why I don’t personally do any stuff on dog training. My background is dog training, in many respects [...]

Dangerous Dogs: A Solution – Muzzle Them All & Keep Them On a Lead

Over the past years we’ve heard a number of alternative ‘dangerous dog’ solutions proposed. Ways and means by which we can prevent dog attacks from occurring. Ideas and suggestions which can help us rid ourselves of the menace of dog attacks. One of the most common ideas put forward seems, on the face of it, [...]

It’s Me or the Dog USA – Victoria Stilwell Seeks Naughty American Dogs!

Ricochet Television, the producers of international parenting phenomenon SUPERNANNY and US cable hits The Real Housewives of NYC (BRAVO) and The Alaska Experiment (Discovery) now bring you IT’S ME OR THE DOG. The American version of the popular Animal Planet show begins casting in LA this month. Owners of (one or more) out-of-control dogs are [...]

Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan Gives His Top Canine Christmas Tips

During the busy Festive season, it is important to keep your dogs in mind. Here, TV dog trainer Cesar Millan gives his own personal tips for a balanced dog and owner relationship throughout the Christmas and Winter period: 1.) Exercise your dog out of doors before taking him to visit or receiving holiday guests. Holiday [...]

Actress Miranda Richardson Speaks Out on Canine Welfare in Sri Lanka

Territorial Dog Aggression

All dogs have one form of aggression or another and to some degree, it is perfectly natural.  However, since our pets are domesticated then there is a certain level of calmness that we should expect from them. The most common aggression behavioral problem that dogs display is called “territorial aggression”. To sum up the definition [...]

Punishing a Dog

In issue 21 of K9 Magazine we opened the floor to an assembly of dog trainers, pet care professionals, novice and experienced dog owners to discuss the highly controversial subject of punishing a dog within the context of their regular training program. Despite the wide variety of different dog training methods promoted and discussed today, it would appear a general [...]