True North labradoodles
This website is about safety: teaching kids -- and also adults -- how to interact with puppies and dogs. It has awesome music videos for kids teaching them how to understand a dog's body language and how to treat a dog with respect -- a puppy is not a toy!!!! It's really fun and the kids will love it.
"My goal is to help families live happily and safely with their dogs — and have fun doing it.
Getting a dog is such an exciting adventure for a family — the training part should be fun for everyone — parents, kids, and the dog! The methods used in our programs are ALL 100% positive, fun, simple, and effective. Hey, if it's not fun — no one's going to do it!"
Justine
True North has recently partnered with an online program that offers training lessons, weekly podcasts, live office hours and live canine coaching. The fact that the whole family can watch the videos together makes this program invaluable, for every family member must be on the same page when it comes to training a puppy; everyone should use the same words and gestures for commands and rewards or corrections need to be consistent.
You pay a one time lifetime membership fee; you get 25% off if you use the discount code TRUENORTH.
Click on the logo to be taken to their website.
Getting the puppy of your dreams requires work on your part. We need to learn techniques for training our puppies and also use our creativity to adapt our training to that individual, unique, dog in front of us.
Unlike people, who are complex and complicated and often very frustrating, there are no surprises with a dog: the love you give you get back double in return.
Dr. Ian Dunbar's book is free and a really good introduction to training your puppy. Click on the picture and you can start learning right now!
" If you have your heart set on raising and training a puppy, do make sure you train yourself beforehand. Remember, it takes only a few days to ruin an otherwise perfect puppy. Without a doubt, the most important developmental deadline comes before you even think of getting your puppy—your education about puppy education!"
Dr. Ian Dunbar
The Puppy Primer is a great manual for the first few weeks when you bring your puppy home.
"Lassies are made, not born. Your dog didn't come into the world with the ability to understand English or to know the social conventions of our culture. By the same token, you were not born instinctively knowing how to train a dog. Dog training involves skills that anyone can learn, if they are willing to invest time and energy."
Patricia McConnell, Ph.D.
The Monks of New Skete give practical advice and training strategies, but also approach training from an analytical point of view. I highly recommend it.
"We are most successful at adopting and raising a puppy when we build on a clear-sighted respect for the kind of creature a dog is; then we can understand and accept the responsibilities of caring for one properly. Such an attitude flies in the face of the me mentality, a one-dimensional mind-set that fails to respect a dog in its integrity as a dog and instead sees it only in the terms of one's own wants and desires."
The Monks of New Skete