by DogSmith | Sep 27, 2013 | Blogs To Help You Train Your Dog
by Niki Tudge Isn’t it amazing how we expect puppies to arrive in our home fully trained and perfectly fluent in the English language? And then we are amazed when our new dog doesn’t understand the simplest instructions we give them. Like a tourist in a foreign...
by DogSmith | Mar 28, 2011 | Blogs To Help You Train Your Dog
Dispelling the Canine Alpha Myth It is first important to understand some basics of canine social systems. Dogs live in social groups and they establish a social structure, called a hierarchy, within the group. This hierarchy or “pecking order” serves to maintain...