On our Practice Paws website, we love talking about Agility and Obedience. It’s the two dog sports we mention most often. However, there are so many other dog sports as well as these two. And some of them might just be better suited for your dog! The wonderful thing about dog sports is you don’t… Continue reading 5 Dog Sports and What They’re all About
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Target Training and Why it’s Useful
You may have never heard of target training, but it’s actually a super useful training skill to have all-round for many situations with your dog. In this post, we’ll be discussing what is target training and what you can use it for. What is Target Training? Target training is teaching your dog to touch a… Continue reading Target Training and Why it’s Useful
What NOT to do in Dog Training
How easy is it to train a dog? Yeh sure, it’s pretty simple to train a sit. But how fun are you making it for your pooch? and when you really get into training and want to advance into agility, how do you tackle the weave poles? When you’re busy training tricks, it’s easy to… Continue reading What NOT to do in Dog Training
How to Train The 5 Most Essential Commands
Training is such a huge part of owning a dog, it’s all fun with training commands to show your friends like paw, shake, jump, spin but you can’t forget about the basics and most important commands for your dog to know! In this post we will be going through what we consider the 5 most… Continue reading How to Train The 5 Most Essential Commands
2 Exciting Tricks and How to Train Them!
One of the best things about dog training is you can get creative and come up with some pretty unique tricks and combos to have fun with your dog! Well to help inspire you, in this post we’ll be discussing how to train 2 exciting tricks that will be sure to impress your friends! So,… Continue reading 2 Exciting Tricks and How to Train Them!
The Simple Solution to Jumping
Looking back on all our blog posts, you’ve got to wonder, how have we not covered this topic yet? Well, we honestly don’t know. Jumping is such a common behaviour in dogs that owners and other people try to discourage. Yet, a lot of the dogs you greet will give you a nice excitable greeting!… Continue reading The Simple Solution to Jumping
20 Fun Commands to Teach Your Dog
Welcome to our first blog post of 2024! So, let’s start off with one that will keep you and your pooch busy… 20 training commands! If you’re in that situation where you’ve got down the basics and are just looking for something a little more exciting, this is for you! In this post we’ll go… Continue reading 20 Fun Commands to Teach Your Dog
The 4 Best Dog Treats to Spoil Your Pooch
Are you looking for some dog treats to spoil your dog? Maybe it’s their birthday or you just want to give them a special day… Well, in this post we will share our top 4 Dog Treats for your pooch to enjoy! Some of these will be generic brands that we love, and others will… Continue reading The 4 Best Dog Treats to Spoil Your Pooch
Our Overall Guide to Scent Work | The Scent Work Series
Welcome to the final post of The Scent Work Series! In this post, we will share our overall guide to get started in scent work also diving into problems we ran into in our SW journey and how to fix them! A big thanks to everyone who has been following along with this series and… Continue reading Our Overall Guide to Scent Work | The Scent Work Series
Session 4, 5 & 6 | The Scent Work Series
Juliette Mylius | 17 August 2023 Welcome back to this series! By now we are well into training, and it is going well. As you may have noticed, this post is structured like our last training session article of the series: a few sessions combined because they all are very similar. In this post we… Continue reading Session 4, 5 & 6 | The Scent Work Series