How To Handle Dog Separation Anxiety While You’re Away for the Holidays

Dogs can often exhibit severe anxiety when left alone, especially this time of year. Here’s how to handle dog separation anxiety during the holidays and beyond.

How To Handle Dog Separation Anxiety During the Holidays

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Positive reinforcement dog training rewards your dog for good behavior vs. punishing them for bad behavior. Use these tips to help train your dog.

Positive Reinforcement Dog Training: Do It the Right Way

Best Practices for Positive Reinforcement Dog Training

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Dogs speak through their actions. Look for these dog behaviors that shouldn't be ignored and seek out help to change them.

Common Dog Behaviors That Shouldn't Be Ignored

7 Dog Behaviors That Shouldn't Be Ignored

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Why Is My Older Dog Attacking Our New Puppy?

If an older dog won't stop attacking a new puppy, here are some strategies to help curb that aggressive dog behavior.

Help - My Older Dog Keeps Attacking Our New Puppy

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Advice Needed - How Do I Get My Dog Interested in Puzzle Toys?

Interactive puzzle toys are a great way to stimulate a dog and prevent boredom. Here's how to get your dog interested in them.

How Do I Get My Dog Interested in Puzzle Toys: 5 Steps

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How To Train Your Dog To Stop Barking 

There are several ways to train a dog to stop barketing, first among them to adjust their environment so they don't bark as much. The right method to get a dog to stop barking depends on the reason why the dog is barking. 

A Vet's Tips to Train Your Dog To Stop Barking 

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Panting is normal canine behavior that happens for various reasons, though not all are good. Understanding why dogs pant can help pet parents know what’s typical and what might indicate that something is wrong.

Why Do Dogs Pant?

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Pet parents often wonder what their dogs are trying to tell them. It can also be a mystery trying to figure out what dogs are saying to each other. Knowing the various forms of canine communication will help pet parents bond with their dogs and prevent problems in homes with multiple dogs.

Canine Communication

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Although a barking dog is perfectly normal, it can become excessive. Non-stop barking can frustrate pet parents and irritate neighbors or anyone else exposed to it. Learning why a dog is barking and what to do about it can help pet parents regain control.

Why Is My Dog Barking?

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It’s a situation many dog pet parents have experienced at least once — their dog mounts and humps another dog or the leg of one of their guests. Although common, these behaviors can also result in problems. Here are some ways to discourage mounting behavior in dogs.

How to Discourage Dog Mounting Behavior

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It can be incredibly frustrating for a pet parent when their dog suddenly starts peeing in the house. It’s also stressful, not only for the pet parent, but also for the dog. Here are some reasons why a housetrained dog might suddenly start having accidents indoors and how to prevent this behavior.

Why Is My Dog Peeing in the House?

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Many people associate a wagging dog tail with happiness. While this might be true sometimes, dogs wag their tails to convey various emotions. The key is how a dog’s tail moves and its positioning. Learning these contextual clues can help pet parents understand what dog tail wags mean.

What Do Dog Tail Wags Mean?

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Dogs eat poop sometimes. It happens. It’s a gross habit, but it’s more common than people might think. In a 2012 study, one in every four dogs got caught eating feces—and one in six did it more than five times. How to Stop a Dog From Eating Poop If the poop-eating doesn’t have a medical cause, behavior and training ...

Vet Tips on How to Stop a Dog from Eating Poop

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Whenever pet parents bring a new puppy or dog into the family, getting them comfortable in the environment and familiar with the schedule and rules is an important first step. Reinforcing the rules of the house and training will help a puppy or dog get physically and emotionally adjusted into their new environment, whi

Puppy & Dog Crate Training To Improve Behavior

Crate Training Steps To Improve a Dog's Behavior

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Welcoming a new puppy or dog into the home is always an exciting time for a pet parent. However, many pet parents find themselves trying to figure out how to stop their dog from eating things in the house. Here's a list of reasons why dogs destroy things and how to prevent this behavior.

How to Stop a Dog From Eating Things in the House

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Dogs communicate in a variety of different ways. They use scent, body language, whines, growls, and barking. Recognizing the different types of barks a dog makes can help to decipher what message he’s trying to convey. Why Does My Dog Bark at Me? Humans have countless words to vocalize wants, needs, and emotions. While

Understanding Dog Vocalizations - Why Does My Dog Bark At Me?

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For pet parents, housetraining the dog is the first step to a happy and healthy home. Like any kind of dog training, it means setting clear expectations and rewarding the dog for good behavior. Dealing With Puppies Housetraining a puppy is all about routine. Plan the day so that the puppy can go outside at least every 

House Training Your Dog So They Don't Pee Indoors

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As highly social animals, dogs require play for a happy and healthy life. Playing games provides many benefits for a pet, including improved physical and mental health. Play is often how dogs learn—they improve social skills with both pet parents and animals through social games. Looking for ways to explore educational

Educational Play for Dogs

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Puppy socialization is vital to a dog’s healthy development. A dog that is not used to different situations, people, and animals can become anxious, lonely, and even aggressive. Luckily, preventing this is simple — provide positive socialization experiences early and often. According to the American Veterinary Medical 

4 Simple Puppy Socialization Steps

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One of the best things about having a dog in your life is the sheer joy and love that they bring into even the most perfunctory of daily interactions with you. However, sometimes all that overwhelming love and unconditional devotion can have unintended consequences. A big one is dog separation anxiety. Our companions can love us so much that being apart from us causes them high levels of stress and anxiety, which almost inevitably lead to destructive and unwanted behaviors.

How to Manage Dog Separation Anxiety

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By Dr. Caitlin O’Donoghue A bored dog is a dog that’s bound to get into trouble. As much as we’d all love to spend endless hours engaging and playing with our pups, sometimes you have pesky things to do like “go to work” and “leave the house to run basic errands”. This is when destruction happens! Unwanted behaviors (a

Is Your Dog Bored? Easy Dog Enrichment Activities

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By Dr. Eric Eisenman Leaving for work in the morning can be so heartbreaking that some pet parents consider applying for jobs where you can bring your dog to work every day. Most of us can’t make the switch to a completely dog-friendly office environment, but there are a few steps you can take to see if your current of

Six Tips To Follow When You Bring Your Dog to Work

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