I found an article by 101 Dog Training Tips about different types of house training issues. I’ve seen some of these posted in Ask Dogasaur and thought it would be helpful to share their advice with our members.

It was interesting how this article regards regular potty training as a separate category from the other types of issues. Dogs who fit into this group are ones who have just never been house trained. They will sometimes eliminate indoors and sometimes outdoors.

With other dogs, the issue may be a little more complicated.

The BARF diet is a highly beneficial raw food diet for your dog. We interviewed Robert Mueller, who is the company’s co-founder. This will probably answer a lot of your questions that come to mind. The rationale behind the BARF diet is quite interesting. And it will make you think twice about the food you are giving your dog.

There are many owners that are not aware that dogs cannot have grapes. Other fruits like strawberries, blueberries and bananas are okay. But grapes are a whole other story. The fact that grapes are bad for dogs is a rule of thumb that some people are familiar with, while others are not. Perhaps some of us have not taken the time to do a Google search on this topic. But for our own knowledge, it is important to try and find out why.

Dr. Nancy Kay is a veterinarian who writes the blog, Speaking for Spot. She recently wrote a post on the subject of dogs and grapes.

History records that at the first Thanksgiving, no dog choked on a splintering turkey bone.  The humans at that 1621 feast, indeed, were into venison, not gobble-gobble.  Yet the celebration lasted three days, plenty of time for a canine to encounter life-threatening perils.  You have to believe that Squanto, without whom those Mayflower peeps would [...]

You’ve got the costume ready to go. He’s going as a pumpkin, a biker, an elephant, or Miley Cyrus…whatever it is, it’s pretty darn funny. But before you dress your dog in something that you can safely assume is going to be a one-shot deal (unless you repeat for next year, but where’s the originality [...]

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In its most basic form, agility is a timed obstacle course.  Handlers are required to memorize a course they have never seen before and then successfully navigate their dogs through a sea of equipment, without incurring an off course penalty.  Of course it’s not enough to stay on course.  The dogs must perform each obstacle [...]

Dogs like to greet each other nose-to-nose. When they see a familiar human, jumping up to reach their face is a very natural reaction. Some view this jumping up as an attempt to overpower or “dominate” people while the opposite is more likely to be true — puppies tend to greet their mothers with face-face [...]

Indigo is my 10-year-old Silky Terrier. Velcro is one of her many nicknames. I wouldn’t classify her as having any measure of separation anxiety, but she is always–always–following my wife and I throughout the house, room to room, station to station.  What momentous event does she expect will happen when I walk, say, to the [...]

The little white dog jumped out of the car and ran around the dog park parking lot, oblivious to the potential dangers as well as its owner’s increasingly frustrated voice. “Cooper (names have been changed to protect the parties involved)! Get back here!” After a few unsuccessful laps chasing the pooch around a parked SUV, [...]