Enjoyable Dogs Blog

Survive your puppy's biting phase of development using these tips.

Puppies and dogs are always on the lookout to obtain good experiences and avoid bad ones. You can win their trust and keep it by making sure that you frequently are the source of good experiences, and rarely cause bad ones. Here are three tips to help you earn and keep your puppy's precious sense of trust. 1. Make sure that when you call them, they experience something good every time I like to keep treats handy in a pouch I wear on my belt Some puppies respond to praise an

Puppies love to steal things: your clothes, shoes, pieces of paper, the kids’ toys…if they can move it, they’ll take it. Getting chased and wrestling over the object is half the fun. But having their treasure pried out of their jaws isn’t fun. If you repeatedly do this, it could cause problems: Puppy could get defensive about having hands near their face. This will make it hard to clean their teeth, or to help them if a piece of stick gets wedged in their upper jaw (this h