Dog Training, Dog Supplies, and Dog Care

I am looking for some ideas on How to build my own, affordable agility course.  Please share your ideas on the different elements of the agility course and how others can build their own without the major expenses involved in purchasing the dog agility equipment.

Here are a couple of quick and cheap things:

Pause Ring: A hoola hoop from the dollar store

Pause Table: Our dogs are all very small, so we just just a wood foot stool.

Hooray! 

This is a great question posted by one of my readers.  Now, keeping in mind that our dogs are teacups and tiny toys, what we use as a solution is not going to work on larger breeds. 

When our pups start to learn how to climb out of the whelping box on

Crate training is in no way cruel when done properly.  We will cover steps in a later blog on how to properly crate train, but this post is to simply address the title question at hand and to set your mind frame into to correct position.

A good way to look at a crate is that it is a safe place, that is your dog's and only

First I want to mention that male dogs are great pets!!!  If you are not using as a stud the two keys to keeping them from marking is

First, I have to mention this, it is up to your neighbor to control their dog and it is up to you to respectfully talk to your neighbor about their dog.

With that said, if you can't put a fence around your garden or don't want to, here is what my friend does.  They have a problem out where they live with wild dogs.  In the spring they buy fresh, bulk spices such as

I know many may not agree with the use of shock collars and I am perfectly fine with that.  I personally just recently discovered step shocks and have started using them with a follow up of the ultra sonic collars and love it!

What do I mean by the "step shocks"?  These are collars that can be used on any size dog, and with ours being very tiny that was of