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Helping Your Dog Overcome Separation Anxiety

2 days ago4 min read

Helping Your Dog Overcome Separation Anxiety

Help your dog overcome separation anxiety with patience, safe spaces, desensitization, and mental stimulation for a calmer, happier pup.

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Casey Morrison

Dec 162 min read

5 Signs Your Dog Has Separation Anxiety

Learn how changes in your dog’s eating habits, like loss of appetite or overeating, can signal anxiety or stress.

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Welcoming Home a New Dog: Helping Your Dog Adjust to Your Child

Casey Morrison

Dec 123 min read

Welcoming Home a New Dog: Helping Your Dog Adjust to Your Child

Bringing home a new dog is exciting, but it can be challenging when you have a child.

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3 Steps to Ensure Safety for Visiting Kids and Your Dog

Casey Morrison

Nov 183 min read

3 Steps to Ensure Safety for Visiting Kids and Your Dog

When kids visit your home, it’s essential to ensure that interactions between them and your dog are safe and enjoyable.

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Dog Walking Skills Part Three: Walking Past Other Dogs

Jake Belmont

Nov 113 min read

Dog Walking Skills Part Three: Walking Past Other Dogs

Wrap up our dog-walking skills series with the final step: moving your dog past distractions.

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Louise Belmont

Oct 203 min read

How to Manage Leash Reactivity on Walks

Navigating the world with a reactive dog can be difficult and stressful. Today we’re talking about ways you can safely navigate the world

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Casey Morrison

Sep 183 min read

Enrichment for Your Newly Adopted Dog

Adopting a new dog is an exciting and transformative experience for the dog and their new family.

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Mastering Off-Leash Etiquette: A Dog Walker's Guide

Jake Belmont

Mar 113 min read

Mastering Off-Leash Etiquette: A Dog Walker's Guide

The off-leash dog. It’s a dream for most and a nightmare for many. Walking out in our woods with Manzo off-leash exploring whatever his...

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How to Introduce a Second Dog to your Home

Casey Morrison

Feb 125 min read

How to Introduce a Second Dog to your Home

Are you thinking about bringing home another dog, but you just don’t know where to start?

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Valentines Day with your Dog: 3 cost-free ways to celebrate

Casey Morrison

Feb 54 min read

Valentines Day with your Dog: 3 cost-free ways to celebrate

We all know the unbreakable bond between humans and dogs, and it’s not just on Valentine’s Day but all year round.

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The Top 2 Ways to Bond with a Newly Adopted Dog

Casey Morrison

Jan 223 min read

The Top 2 Ways to Bond with a Newly Adopted Dog

It's important to start your newly adopted dog off right and training is a great way to bond with a newly adopted dog or puppy.

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The Rule of 3s: Welcoming a Rescue Pup into Your Home

Casey Morrison

Jan 152 min read

The Rule of 3s: Welcoming a Rescue Pup into Your Home

Once you have picked out the perfect addition, bringing home your pup and giving them the time to settle in can be challenging.

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Jake & Louise

Aug 14, 20233 min read

Understanding Your Dog's Prey Drive

Prey drive is the instinctive desire for dogs to find, chase and capture prey.

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Understanding Your Dog's Fear. What to look for and how to help them.

Jake & Louise

Apr 5, 20215 min read

Understanding Your Dog's Fear. What to look for and how to help them.

Is your dog fearful of something? Have you seen your dog cower, shake, growl or even bark at seemingly nothing? Fear can seem like a...

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Shame and Blame. An Open Letter to Reactive Dog Owners.

Jake & Louise

Mar 22, 20214 min read

Shame and Blame. An Open Letter to Reactive Dog Owners.

Hey you! Yes you, the reactive dog owner who is trying to balance everything. I see you and I know your struggle. You are trying your...

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Reactive Dogs 101, How to get started training your reactive dog.

Jake & Louise

Mar 8, 20215 min read

Reactive Dogs 101, How to get started training your reactive dog.

Training a reactive dog is a journey like no other. Dogs who bark, lunge, and even growl at people or other dogs, require a lot from...

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No Pull Harnesses, are they a magic solution for pulling dogs?

Dog Gear Review

Feb 22, 20215 min read

No Pull Harnesses, are they a magic solution for pulling dogs?

I know we would all love to believe that there are magic tools out there that we can just buy, and they will solve all our dog training...

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Jake & Louise

Feb 8, 20214 min read

Reactive Dog Training Top Tools

Reactive dog training can be difficult. It is hard to know what to do, how to do it, and if you are even doing it right. On top of that...

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Puppy Training Mistakes: 4 Things to Avoid.

Jake & Louise

Jan 25, 20214 min read

Puppy Training Mistakes: 4 Things to Avoid.

Puppyhood. It is a magical and amazing time in you and your dog’s relationship. It goes way too fast and feels like it lasts forever at...

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Jake & Louise

Jan 11, 20215 min read

Dog Training for the Real World

Something that we hear often is that someone's dog will listen really well in a training class or when the trainer is there with the dog....

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