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Are You Enjoying Your Training Journey? training tips

It can seem daunting hiring a trainer for your dog. Either be it right from the start as a puppy or later on in life due to behaviors you want to eliminate and others you want to improve upon. It...

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5 Top Tips for Puppy Raising keendog essentials play puppy raising training tips

So you’re getting a new puppy, the excitement in the household is at an all time high and you may be wondering what the key areas to focus on are. We want to help you get off on the right...

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5 Ways To Optimize Your Day With Your Dog training tips

For the past couple years it feels like I have become a black belt in cramming as many things in a day as possible. However, for the past couple months it has been a refreshing feeling to go at a...

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Be Realistic With Your Expectations puppy raising training tips

The best thing about what I do as a dog trainer is to provide the coaching and guidance for dog owners to live life optimally with their dogs. To deepen the relationship they share, teach them how...

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Be The Bowl keendog essentials training tips

Channel your inner Yoda when viewing your relationship with your dog. You see how exuberant your dog gets when you fill up his bowl for meals – well, you should be the bowl. The ...

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Why Your Dog Won’t Listen training tips

Have you ever been to a foreign country or with a group of individuals who speak a different dialect than you? It can be overwhelming trying to understand what others are saying when you...

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Goals & Habits training tips

It’s the year 2020 and what better way to start the year than going over your goals you have for you and your dog. Goals are accomplished through your daily habits and rituals, so ask...

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3 Words Your Dog Should Know training tips

When getting a new dog there are a slew of articles, training tips, books and so forth that can surely make your head spin. To a new dog owner it can be a little overwhelming. Over time consistency...

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3 Tips to Fight Against Training Frustration training tips

How many times have you been to a lesson or a group class and come away from it feeling a bit beaten up?  Your pup may not have been listening, which caused you to get frustrated, they started...

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Elevator Manners training tips

How many of you live in a place where the elevator is a daily part of your dog’s training? There are several different perspectives to examine when considering how to...

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5 Dont’s Most People Do training tips

Dog training is completely unnatural. Everything you’re supposed to do is exactly the opposite of what you instinctively want to do. When you think about it, us following our human instinct...

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Living in a Multi-Dog Household multi-dog households training tips

“Are those all YOUR animals?!” I get asked this almost daily when people walk by my computer screen in the office and see my collage of animal pictures. It wasn’t until I...

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