Dog Training - No, YOU Sit!

Dogs can learn an amazing variety of behaviors, but few so fundamentally important as the ’sit’. Beyond the basic need to establish that the human of the pair is the alpha (leader), it has a number of practical benefits.

When a dog sits he’s more attentive, making it easier to follow further commands. His eyes are on you, the alpha.

As important as what the dog is doing, is what he is not. In a sit, he’s more or less stationary. There are still those wagging tails, after all. That means he’s not chasing the cat, knocking over the furniture, running through the garden or out into the street.

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Dog Training - Training Styles - Part II

Training styles differ, but some traditional techniques have proven their worth.

Training styles are sometimes divided into those that use both positive and negative reinforcement, or rewards and punishment and those that rely solely on rewards. Using the word ‘punishment’ naturally turns off many who want to treat their companion with care. Substitute the word with ‘discouragements’ and you have the more accurate sense.

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Dog Training - The Basics

Though dog-human interaction goes back thousands of years, communication between the two is still sometimes rough. The human half of the pair is usually the smarter party, but watching the usual training sessions one can have legitimate reason to wonder.

Dogs understand and respond at roughly the mental level of a human two-year-old, but there the similarity ends. Their senses operate differently - their color vision has a different response pattern to reds and greens, for example, and obviously their noses are infinitely more sensitive - and their minds process information differently as well. Anyone training dogs has to take this into account in order to avoid human frustration and canine misbehavior.

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Health Concerns of Yorkshire Terriers

Yorkshire Terriers are not only smart and cute; they are also healthy, as a general rule. Of course in order to maintain that good health, they do require a high degree of care. This means that you have to be on the lookout for problems, and it also means that your Yorkshire Terrier needs to see his vet once and sometimes twice each year. Below are some common problems that are seen in Yorkshire Terriers.

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That’s what my HM calls me now because I keep going and going and going. Two weeks ago today they gave me two weeks to live when they diagnosed my cancer, hemangiosarcoma. Well, I guess they got that wrong, BOL! I decided to celebrate with a small game of catch.

Throw it, throw it, throw it, THROW IT!!!

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Highland Canine Training, LLC in conjuction with the American Police Dog Tactics Association will be conducting a Canine Supervision and Management Seminar at the Marietta Police Department in Marietta, Georgia on March 23, 2009. This one day (8 hours) seminar is great for Chiefs, Sheriff’s, Administrators and Managers of Police Canine Units. Listed below is an outline for the course:

Choosing the Right Handler
Choosing the Right Dog
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Highland Canine Training and the Fultondale Police Department will be hosting a Police K-9 and SWAT Applications Seminar in Fultondale, Alabama on May 11-15, 2009. This course will teach the proper methods of integrating a Police Canine team into a SWAT, ERT or tactical team. The course teaches proper searches, extractions and how to effectively work on a perimeter. The course also discusses the limitations of Police Canine Units in SWAT Applications. Space is limited so call 866.200.2207 or email us today to sign up.

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Highland Canine Training, LLC started 2009 will a successful round of group classes in January and February held in Mooresville. Because of the request for more classes, we have schedule more group training.

Advanced Obedience Class is for the person who would like to have their dog trained off leash and under voice control. Your dog must know sit, down, come and heel on leash before beginning this course. We will teach how to gain your dogs focus so that your dog will successfully obey the above commands off leash.
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Dog Training - Training Styles - Part I

Contrary to popular belief, there are not as many training styles as there are trainers. Despite individual differences, people handling dogs fall into clearly recognizable categories. And no matter your individual style or that of your dog, there remain certain truisms.

The Too-Easily Frustrated

No activity apart from human childrearing requires as much patience as developing cooperative behavior in a dog. And most individuals don’t spontaneously possess that much. So, along with training the dog, self-training is usually necessary.

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The Importance of Microchipping Your Yorkshire Terrier

Each year, Yorkshire Terriers go missing. Most of those are actually stolen, because these dogs are worth a great deal of money to a savvy thief. If you have not already considered Microchipping your Yorkshire Terrier, you absolutely must consider this immediately, and make arrangements to have this done.

On average, Microchipping can cost somewhere between $40 and $70, depending on the area where you live, and the microchip that you order, as well as whether or not you are injecting the microchip yourself or having it done for you. The small microchip contains a number, which when put into the computer system returns information about the dog and his owner, including your name, phone number, address, and the name and phone number of your veterinarian.

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