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Dog Training

The Nature of a Dog Dogs are surprisingly complex creatures.Some official estimates of the number of breeds reaches as high as 800 in Western countries alone. Even given that distinguishing one breed from another can be carried to absurd extremes, the variety is astonishing from a human perspective, who have, perhaps, ... read more>>   The Basics Part I Though dog-human interaction goes back thousands of years, communication between the two is still sometimes rough. The human half of the pair is usually the smarter party, but watching the usual training sessions one can have legitimate reason to wonder.  Dogs understand and respond at roughly ... read more>>   Dog Psychology Even dumb dogs are clever. Just think of the many ways they get humans to do what they want. Few can resist the soulful eyes and the offered paw when eating something the dog also views as tasty.One of the reasons for the many-thousand year association between humans and dogs is the latter's gre ... read more>>

Socializing Your Dog Dogs, like humans, show a wide range of tolerance for others. Some are immediately friendly with every new dog, cat or lizard. Others are forever hostile to even the opposite sex of their own breed. Considering dogs are by nature territorial the diversity is odd, but there it is.  Naturally, a ... read more>>