Behavior

Training a dog to speak is one of the simplest commands for a dog to learn, and it’s a great way to expose your dog to the learning process, which makes teaching other, more complicated commands a lot easier. This article provides a straightforward 3-step process for teaching your dog how to bark on command, … Read more

Knowing When Too Much Is Too Much All dogs chew and bite at their skin. It is a perfectly natural canine behavior that should not be any cause for alarm. However, a persistent habit of chewing at themselves can indicate a problem with your dogs’ health. As most people will readily tell you, dogs mainly … Read more

A dog’s plaintive stare, or “puppy dog eyes,” is usually an attempt to communicate a need or desire to you. A dog cannot speak, but he knows enough about human body language and communication to tap into some elements of it, such as eye contact. If you find your dog staring up at you, there … Read more

Digging comes as naturally to a dog as breathing or eating. You could say our pups were made to do it… but that doesn’t make it any easier to deal with when it becomes destructive! In no time at all, your dog can make your yard look more like a cratered moon than an earthly … Read more

The tail wag: is there any behavior that’s more dog-like? Dogs may not be the only animals that wag their tails, but they certainly do it in the most iconic way. Most people associate tail wagging with happiness and excitement, but there’s far more to it than that. Dogs wag their tails to communicate many … Read more

Introduction: Sometimes, Cute Can Also Be Disgusting When A dog licks your face, it is both endearing and disgusting at the same time. You don’t want to pull away in disgust, because you know your dog is just trying to show affection, but no one wants dog spit in their mouth. While a little bit … Read more

Wouldn’t it be nice if your dog was always on his best behavior? No incessant barking at nothing, no chewing up your new throw pillow or favorite shoes, no bolting out the front door every time you open it… sounds like a dream come true! But owning a dog is like having a perpetual 2-year-old, … Read more

If you’ve never owned a dog or walked one, the approach of an off-leash dog may alarm and even frighten you. Many new dog owners fear dog fights and imagine that when two dogs that don’t know each other meet, they are more likely to fight than not fight. Actually, most of these encounters end … Read more

It’s every dog owner’s worst nightmare: your dog wriggles out of his collar or bolts out the front door and takes off running. You search for him to no avail, and though you hope he’ll return for dinner, hours turn into days as he remains missing. Out in the big wide world, anything could happen … Read more

We wink to communicate flirtatiousness, comedic intent, inside jokes and discreet greetings. But why do dogs wink — surely they’re not in on the same subtleties as us, right? There’s no denying that it’s adorable when dogs wink, but try to analyze it any deeper and it just gets confusing. It’s just one of the … Read more