May 21, 2012

A Tip On How To Raise A Puppy – Handling Your Pup

Raising A Puppy

One of the most important things you can do when you first start raising a puppy is to constantly work on handling your puppy.  This is one of the most important tasks in the raising of a puppy because it will teach your pup that it’s okay to picked up, handled, and examined not only [...]

Why Guide Dog Puppies Should Not Be Confused As Sniffer Dogs

Guide Dog Puppy

Take a look at the logo in the upper right hand corner of this blog.  It says: “Puppy Training Tips From Our Experiences As Guide Dog Puppy Raisers”.  That’s exactly what we’ve been doing here at PuppyInTraining.com…offering puppy training tips! You’ve probably noticed that I’ve branched off quite a bit since the early days.  I [...]

Do You Have A 24 Hour Emergency Vet?

24 Hour Emergency Vet

I started looking for a new puppy over 7 years ago and at the time I knew I’d have to visit the veterinarian for regular vaccinations, spay/neutering, and other miscellaneous puppy ailments, but I never really thought about what would happen if I had to contact a 24 hour emergency vet. After owning my dogs [...]

Is Dog Boarding An Option When You Travel?

Dog Boarding

One of the things I never really thought about before bringing home a puppy was what do you do with your dogs when you travel?  Is dog boarding an option?  What other options do your have if you have dogs, but you still want to take the occasional vacation? Why am I thinking about this [...]

How Often Should You Wash Your Dog?

Wash Your Dog

When I was a kid I don’t remember ever washing our dog, but he used to go swimming just about every day in our swimming pool…I guess you could call it a daily chlorine bath.  When I picked up Linus from the animal shelter over 7 years ago I asked our veterinarian: “How often should [...]

My Puppy Hates His Collar!? What Do I Do?

Puppy Collars

Does your puppy hate collars?  If you just brought your puppy home or only had him for a few days I’m guessing your answer is a resounding YES!!!  In fact, people tell me all the time in a frantic mood…”My puppy hates his collar!?  What do I do?“  The answer is not that difficult: “just [...]

7 Dog Blogs You Should Start Reading Today

Dog Blogs

95 pet blogs entered the pet blogger challenge (at least that’s how many entered the blog hop).  After reading through all 95 pet blogger challenge blog posts I came away with 7 new dog blogs I’m going to start reading today.  7 new RSS Subscriptions to add to my already full Google Reader.  Can I [...]

A Simple Tip On Teaching Puppy Training Commands

Puppy Training Commands

Today’s puppy training tip is a very simple concept however, I pretty much guarantee you that we all make this mistake on occasion. If you’ve ever attended a puppy kindergarten, puppy obedience, or dog obedience training class then I’m sure you’ve heard most of the handlers working on basic puppy training commands like sit, down, [...]

Top 10 Tips For New Puppy Owners

New Puppy

If you’re on the verge of becoming a new puppy owner then I’d first like to congratulate you on your new puppy!  The second thing I’d like to do is give you a list of the top 10 tips for new puppy owners. I’ve been raising guide dog puppies for over  5 years now.  Before [...]

How To House Train A Puppy – Eliminating On Command

How To House Train A Puppy

I knew next to nothing about how to house train a puppy right before I picked up my first puppy, Linus over 7 years ago.  However, shortly before finding Linus I made sure to read the Puppies For Dummies book which gave me the basics of how to train a puppy.  I learned a ton of [...]