Unlike puppies, older dogs don’t arrive as blank slates. They may have learned bad habits from inconsistent training or carry trauma from unknown past experiences—harsh punishment, car accidents, or ...

Training a dog is an exercise in patience, even in the best of circumstances, and recall training, one of the most fundamental parts of dog obedience, can be especially challenging at first. Still, ...

Teaching a dog to come when called sounds simple until your furry sidekick bolts toward a squirrel and pretends you don’t exist. A reliable recall is what keeps dogs safe around cars, cliffs, rivers, ...

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Clinical animal behaviourist Rosie Bescoby shares five straightforward methods to teach older dogs new tricks, from nose touch to spin commands ...