DOG STUFF - ALL THINGS DOG

All those things you need to know and more. Remember to check the Puppy articles for more resources.

n.b. - You will find very little information on this site regarding aggressive behaviour. This type of behaviour must be handled by an expert. Should you require assistance with aggressive behaviour, please just Ask the Behaviourist, who will advise you of your best course of action. Also check our our Puppy Page for more topics

Breed Compatibility Match

CHILDREN AND DOGS

Babies -Preparing your dog for new arrival
Contract for kids : I love my dog
Children and dogs - Basic Safety
Children & dogs - Safety around other people's dogs
Children - What's the best dog for kids?
Dogs and Children
Dogs and Children living in Harmony
Dog's benefits to children 
Parents helping kids to get their dogs to behave

Genetic

Spirocerca lupi treatment and MDR1 testing
Management of genetic disorders  in dogs

CLICKER 

Clicker on-line course by Mary Woodward
Clicker How to have a Polite Puppy the Clicker Way
Loose Lead Walking Clicker Style

TRICKS, GAMES AND ACTIVITIES

Fitness in your back yard part 1 
Fitness in your back yard part 2
Good games/Bad Games
Organized Activities
Scent Games
Tricks - teaching your dog tricks
To Tug or not to Tug
Trick Training for Fun!

TOYS AND CHEWING

Chewing and Toys 
Chew Toy List 
Kongs : 50 ways with a kong

EQUIPMENT

Getting your dog used to a lead & collar in a positive manner
Head Halters - how to use them to stop a dog from pulling
Head Halters - making life a TTouch easier
Muzzles
Prong collar training 
Muzzles: In praise of Muzzles
Selecting training Equipment

STERILIZATION & BREEDING

Don’t want to sterilize your dog? – First consider this 
Probing the Pedigree
Sterilization - is early sterilization an option?
Sterilization - Dont want to steilize? Read this first
To Snip or Not To Snip

TOILET TRAINING

House Training
Odours - Eliminating Doggy Odours
Toilet Training
Teaching a dog/pup to eliminate on paper
Withholding - a difficult housebreaking problem

SOCIALIZING & EXERCISE       

Dog Park Etiquette
Getting enough out of your dog walks?
Running with your dog
Socialization - The Importance of Socialization
Walking : How walking your dog can save the planet
Walks in the Cape National parks

TRAINING SCHOOLS

Training : The right school for your dog
Training : Dog Training Classes
Training- how to find the right trainer for your dog

DOG PHYSIOLOGY

Are dogs colour blind?
Dogs read our intent -by ScienceDaily
Do Dogs Dream?
Dogs can recognize photos
Does tail docking affect behaviour
Emotion: Do dogs feel Emotion?
Five ways that your dog senses the world
GRRRRR....means many things in dogspeak
Greeting Behaviour in Dogs
How dogs think
Stress and our dogs
Tails - does a tail tell its own tail?
Tension Patterns in Dogs
Touching : The benefits of touching your dog
Vision in Animals
Vocalizations : Dog vocalizations
Your dog can talk to you

SENIOR DOGS

Defining quality of life
Senior Dogs -Can their behaviour change?
Senior dogs- Lengthening and improving their lives
The Geriatric DogTop 10 Reasons to Adopt an Older Dog

NUTRITION

Feeding: The principles of feeding your dog correctly
Fat Dogs
Feeding - is it really necessary to feed a good quality food?Food as Medicine
Nutrition - can what you feed your dog affect behaviour?
Nutrition: the impact of nutrition on canine Behaviour
Sterilizing Bones

PET LOSS & EUTHANASIA

Coping with Pet Loss
Dealing with your dog dying
Defining quality of life
Farewell Fido-Helping kids to deal with pet loss
Losing your 'Best Friends'
Pet Loss : Ten tips for coping with Pet loss
Pet Loss: Losing your best friend·         
Pet Loss- Dealing with a dog dying
What to Expect When Your Dog is Put to Sleep – Euthanasia
What to do when it is time to make THAT decision,  Euthanasia? 


HOLIDAYS / TRAVELLING / MISSING DOGS

Going on Holiday? -Plan for your pets
Emergencies - how to plan and prepare
First Aid - see Health Section
FURCODE - A new concept in ID disc's
Help - my dog has gone missing!
Holiday Dogs - Introducing dogs
Holidays : Taking pets on Holiday
Heatstroke
Kennel vs Home Care
Missing dogs - who to contact and what to do
Travel- Should I take my dog overseas?

THERAPY AND COMMUNITY

Funda Nenja- Township Dog Initiative
Irwins - Toys for the Irwin's DogsGuide Dog Training
The Pollsmoore Prison Programme
Therapy Dogs -Paws for people
The Pleasure of a job well done

GENERAL

Beauty without Cruelty
Beware Body Corporate Bullies
Choosing a Breed
Car Harness - Putting one on
Dogs' Brains Reorganized by Breeding 
Fireworks: how fireworks threaten out pets
Fireworks - the SPCA guide to the law on Fireworks
Falling in Love with a dog and how it changes our lives    
First Aid for dog bites
Guidelines for Responsible Pet Ownership
Healing the trauma of dog bites and attacks
Horrendous cross border trading
Inappropriate and Appropriate dog play
Loving your dog too muchOmaha Beagle- a dialogue with Omaha Beagle
The Dog Rescuers Rescue Groups
What to do when your dog is poisoned by criminals
Why wolves are forever wild, but dogs can be tamed

TRAINING METHODS

Commands, Cues & Signals
Fading food rewards
Lure and Reward Training
Positive Reinforcement
Punishment : learning about punishment from dogs.
Punishment has no place in the teaching phase
Pack Theory
Reinforcement Schedules
Rewards, lures and bribes
Rewards- the power of social interaction as reward
Treats :Could Additives affect incidents of colon cancer
The Alpha Fallacy
   







 








 


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PROBLEM BEHAVIOURS

Attention Seeking Behaviour
Aggression- some of the reasons behind it
Aggression Basics 
Aggression : If your dog is aggressive could it be in pain?
Begging
Barking : My neighbour's barking dog
Barking Dogs
Barking: Dogs that Bark at night
Barking: Excessive Barking
Biting:
Biting: Why would a dog kill its owner
Basic Instinct : Chewing
Bites :Why dogs Bite and how they warn us
Dog attack YouTube
DominanceDominance - Roger Abrantes On Dominance
Don't Take my Bone!!
Fighting : dog fights at home
Fighting with Dogs
Growling: what to do when your dog growls at you?
Humping : Preventing sexually deviant behaviour
Hard to train
Hyperdog
Humping/Mounting
House Training
Healing the trauma of dog bites and attacks
I am really going to bite you now
Jumping up
Jumping up: No more jumping up
Jumping up at visitors
Lead pulling
Nipping : Puppies and dogs nipping   
Pica
Problem Behaviour - 10 tips
Running away, taking things, destruction
Recall : Total Recall
Resource Guarding : It's Mine
Resource Guarding
Resource Guarding Between Dogs
Storm Fear Phobia
Separation Anxiety- what you can do
Submissive urination
Tantrums- how to deal with them

SHELTER DOGS

Adoption Education Scheme
Adoption and related stress and anxiety
ARE YOU PAYING TOO MUCH FOR A SHELTER DOG??
Behaviour problems frequently seen in rescue animals 
Choosing a Shelter Dog
First two weeks with your dog by Open Paw
5 Tips for Adopting Shelter Dogs
Giving a shelter Dog a Home
Introducing Dogs: 
How to introduce dogs
Introducing a shelter dog to existing dogs in the home
My new shelter dog is not settling down – why – what do I do? 
New Adult Dog
Problems  in rescue animalsTop 10 Reasons to Adopt an Older Dog
Training a shelter dog
10 Tips for Problem Behaviour

TEACHING BASIC SKILLS AND PREVENTION OF PROBLEMS

Alone Time for your Dog
Biting: Preventing Dog Bites
Being Your Dog's Leader is Key to Training
Daily Training - The key to kibble
Growling: what to do when your dog growls at you?
Humping : Preventing sexually deviant behaviour
Houserules for Dogs
Heeling - Teaching Heeling
Hugging your dog
How to raise a dog you can live with
Lifestyle Training
Loose Lead Walking
Loose Lead Walking Clicker Style 
Loving Your Dog Too Much
Lead off Good -Lead on - Bad
My wish list when training 
Possessiveness - Avoiding Possessiveness
Praise Him, Praise Him
Place - teaching your dog to go to his place
Recall using the Long Line
Real reliable Recall
Recall - Getting your dog to come reliably when called
Teaching a Pet Life Skills
Three rules of a well behaved Dog
Sit List
Social Skills 101
Self control - guidelines for teaching self control
Saving Your Home’s Contents From Your Pet
Sit Command: Why the SIT command is so important
Top 40 pet tips
The real reliable Recall
Tips to Increase Confidence & Decrease Fearfulness
Thunderstorms
Training : Golden Training Rules
Tired Dog - is a tired dog a good dog?  
Tired Dog - Too tired to avoid danger?
Please and Thank you 
Tips to Increase confidence
Watch Me
Walking on Lead

INTRODUCING DOGS & DOGS AND CATS & MULTI DOG HOMES

Getting a Second Dog – Pros and Cons
How to introduce dogs
Introducing a new dog to a resident dog
Introducing a shelter dog to existing dogs in the home
Introducing Dogs and Cats
Multi dog Households

FOR PROFESSIONALS

Aggression and some reasons behind it
Aggression Basics
Aggression - A case study with Harry T
Aggression- handling on lead aggression
Dances with Dogs
Fitness in your back yard part 1 
Fitness in your back yard part 2
Green eggs and ham in dog training
Genetic Underpinnings of Anomalous Canine Behaviors 
He just wants to say Hi
Hard to trainHow dogs think
Is a dog a dog's best friend?
It takes a pack to raise a puppy
If you can't say anything nice
Jumping-Why Fluffy Can’t go Hup (Part 1 of 3 part series)
Jumping - Physical Causes of Jumping Problems (Part 2 of 3)
Jumping - I think I can! (Part 3 of 3)
Jumping Just Right Jumping
Lead off Good -Lead on - Bad
Leash reactivity
Learning about punishment from dogs themselves
Of Hostages and relationships
Observation- the fine art of observation
Prong collar training 
It takes a pack to raise a puppy
Relationship approach to training
Retreat and Treat 
Reliability and the retrieve
Selecting training Equipment
Selecting for vigour
Stopping Negative Behaviour Postively
Tails - does a tail tell its own tail?
10 Tips for Problem Behaviour
Tired Dog - is a tired dog a good dog?
That Lazy Owner! That Reactive Dog!
Vicious Dogs/Violent Children : Double- Edged Sword
Vocalizations : Dog vocalizations
Why not take candy from a baby







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