Today’s Doggie Dish pawscast is about training when there are multiple dogs in one household.  It’s not as easy as it sounds; and unfortunately, even if one dog is trained it doesn’t rub off on the other dogs.   This episode is about how to make certain you are the one influencing all your dogs, not the dogs influencing each other.

Believe it or not, having your dog’s attention is not the same thing as getting your dog’s attention.  The former is much more important than that latter.  More often than not, if you have the first part, the second part falls into place without much work.  The other way around is much more difficult.  In today’s show we discuss why having your dog’s attention is better, and the ways to make that happen.

This newest pawscast is about getting your dog to walk without pulling on the leash.  We call it “loose leash walking”, not “heeling”.

The inspiration for this show was seeing a couple’s dogs loose and running through a gas station on a very busy corner in town.  In watching them try to catch their dogs, the various methods they tried, the threats, the cajoling, and their fear and frustration, not to mention that of the dogs’, we thought we should cover things you can do in those situations that make it more likely your dog will come back to you, as well as things that may push them away.