Even some of the most dedicated dog owners might not realize January is National Train Your Dog Month. The event was launched ...

Generally speaking, there are three types of dog training methods: discipline- or aversive-based, reward-based and balanced. Aversive-based training relies on using emotional or physical discomfort to ...

These dog training techniques help correct bad behavior quickly without yelling, using positive reinforcement, consistency, ...

Your tone of voice and volume play a significant role in your dog’s development and how you bond. Yelling at your dog can make your dog nervous and fearful. How you communicate with your dog speaks ...

Up to 14% of military veterans returning from Afghanistan or Iraq post 9/11 have post-traumatic stress disorder. Previous research shows that those with a specially-trained service dog have fewer ...

Clinical animal behaviourist Rosie Bescoby has shared five straightforward training methods to help older dogs learn new skills.

Last week, a reader named Claire expressed her sadness and concern for the subjects of my last few articles, Sally and her dog Pancake. Claire asked if I could “talk about the cruelty of training ...

With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, Johns Hopkins University computer scientists showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks, including stacking blocks.

There is an ongoing controversy among dog trainers as to which training methods are best. Put simply, the two sides of the argument can be described as contrasting the effectiveness of training based ...

With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, computer scientists showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks, including stacking blocks. With the method, the robot, ...

Three years ago, Valli Fraser-Celin adopted a blond husky-mix puppy, whom she named Husk. Fraser-Celin soon started looking for ways to curb Husk’s “totally wild” behavior, she says, such as stealing ...