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Surviving Puppy Biting: Leash Biting

As a professional dog trainer, I don’t think I’ve ever worked with a puppy client who didn’t need help with biting. Puppy biting is seldom aggressive, but it’s always present and always a problem.

Learn what to do when your puppy bites the leash.

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Leighann Hurley, CPDT-KA Leighann Hurley, CPDT-KA

Surviving Puppy Biting: Stop Biting My Feet!

As a professional dog trainer, I don’t think I’ve ever worked with a puppy client who didn’t need help with biting. Puppy biting is seldom aggressive, but it’s always present and always a problem.

Learn how to stop your puppy from biting your feet.

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Leighann Hurley, CPDT-KA Leighann Hurley, CPDT-KA

Surviving Puppy Biting: Structured Play for Puppies

As a professional dog trainer, I don’t think I’ve ever worked with a puppy client who didn’t need help with biting. Puppy biting is seldom aggressive, but it’s always present and always a problem.

Survive puppy biting by learning how to play with your puppy in a way that minimizes biting and maximizes good behavior.

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Leighann Hurley, CPDT-KA Leighann Hurley, CPDT-KA

Surviving Puppy Biting: Puppies and Kids

Surviving puppy biting. As a professional dog trainer, I don’t think I’ve ever worked with a puppy client who didn’t need help with biting. Puppy biting is seldom aggressive, but it’s always present and always a problem.

Learn what you can do to stop your puppy from biting your kids.

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Leighann Hurley, CPDT-KA Leighann Hurley, CPDT-KA

How to Fix Counter-Surfing

Counter-Surfing is what happens when the dog put his paws (either front two or all four) on counters or tables in search of food, dishes, paper, etc. It’s a very irritating problem made even more difficult with modern, open-style floor plans.

How do we fix it?

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Leighann Hurley, CPDT-KA Leighann Hurley, CPDT-KA

7 Ways to Keep Your Dog Safer

Although we can’t completely eliminate accidents and injury, we can do things to reduce the likelihood and impact. Part of taking precautions is understanding where the potential for danger is and taking steps to reduce the threat. Here are seven things you can do to keep your dog safer.

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