Accepting Handling and Gentle Restraint, Part 1

03/21/09 • 12 min

This is Part 1 of 2Margaret and Damian will be talking about a VERY overlooked subject, but one that will not only make your relationship with your dog better, but it could effectively save his life! Teaching your dog to accept Handling and Gentle Restraint.It is a fact of life for our dogs that we must handle or gently restrain them from time to time. Whether it is a vet visit, to dry their paws off, give a pill, or trim their nails.This is a 2 part podcast.Today, we will give you the steps to test and document any issues your dog may have. Next week we will talk about how to teach your dog to accept Handling and Gentle Restraint happily!

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Living with More than One Dog

Margaret and Damian will be talking about an often overlooked subject, Living with More than One Dog. The key to living happily with multiple dogs is for you to be the pack leader. Your dogs will decide amongst themselves what their pecking order is. Each dog in you pack however must understand that all family members are above the dogs! This is sometimes easier said than done! This is sure to be the first of many casts on this subject. So today we offer you our tips to living with more than one dog! We discuss, determining when dogs are getting too rough, dog loyalty test, learning and avoiding "dog fight" hot spots in your house, improving training for your 2 dogs, and how to build a strong relationship with both dogs!Enjoy, and if you have questions or comments, please visit us and post a question on our message board at www.creativedogtraining.com

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Accepting Handling and Gentle Restraint, Part 2

This is Part 2 of 2Margaret and Damian talked last week about how to test and document any issues your dog may have with Handling and Restraint. This week they will be talking about steps to take to improve any issues you found during last weeks test, from trimming your dogs nails, to brushing your dog, to giving them a big hug!Just remember, this is a VERY overlooked subject, but one that will not only make your relationship with your dog better, but it could effectively save his life! Teaching your dog to accept Handling and Gentle Restraint.This is Part 2 of a 2 part podcast, so if you haven't listened to Part 1, please do so first!

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