Orange County Pet News

The dog responds to our commands for two reasons. The first is – the understanding by the dog what we want from it, when we submit the command. If the dog understands the command only partially – you can not achieve reliable performance skills. Almost every dog owner from time to time, assures me that [...]

Do you wish your pets were happy? So do as follows.
Try to teach a dog to swim. Many breeds love water and love to swim together with their masters, bringing great pleasure to themselves and others.
Teach your dog to search for a toy. Make the dog sit, show him the favorite ball, and then stuff [...]

When the puppy is two to three months old, he finally forgets mother and is perfectly adapted to life in your home. It is important that all members of your family treat him kindly, spend time with him. This will help him feel confident and aware him as “family member”. Make sure that nobody frighten [...]

Nowadays, more and more popular fancy species become, such as Yorkshire Terriers, Pugs, Toys, Chinese Crested and others. This is understandable: with their small size they have not a cat’s devotion to his master the dog’s one and advanced intelligence also that allows you to feel full-fledged master of the dog, with all its positive [...]

There is some confusion in the definition of “obedience”. The thing is that on the basis of one and the same set of commands (sit, lie down, stand, etc.), under the general title “obedience”, different trainers conduct, in principle, training of various courses (IPO, Sports Training, OKD, exhibition Training, etc.).
Under obedience, unfortunately, the majority [...]

Sigmund Freud argued that all actions of living creatures are dictated, directly or indirectly, by two forces – Eros, the life instinct (Eros energy called libido) and Thanatos (an innate desire for death and destruction).
Within a fraction of the life there is tension between Eros and Thanatos, and that aggression is the mechanism that [...]

While educating and teaching a dog, many trainers underestimate the role of random factors that have, nevertheless, a strong impact on the animal. Contrary to a popular postulate of the theory of conditioned reflex activity, which argues that in order to develop a conditioned reflex, 30-40 combinations of stimuli (that are effects) in certain [...]

Is there enough time that you spend on the playground for the qualitative development of skills? If you do not go to the playground and the instructor comes to you and holds private lessons near your house, are these lessons enough? Is it necessary to work with the dog even in those days, when the [...]

Dog’s obedience in the initial laying schooling
The laying is a trick, which causes greatest difficulties for many novice trainers. Often one can observe now, when the dog is rather good in the basic skills such as moving side by side, landing, staying. Self-control progresses here, all is ok with Oporto, but the dog keeps [...]

A young dog just can not be reliably controllable under all circumstances. It is necessary to know and consider this.
One of the main conditions for making persistent skills is training.
Training should be conducted aiming to:
Make the dog work in conditions of strong distracting stimuli.
Bring developed reflexes to persistent skills.
Develop dynamic [...]