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I make three guarantees on my first call with a prospective family. Their puppy will bite them. Their puppy will destroy something they love. And their puppy will have accidents in the house. What I can't guarantee is that yelping and going limp will teach that puppy to bite softly, because that's not how any of this works.

As responsible breeders, it's not enough to simply raise healthy, physically sound puppies. Our job is also to prepare families — and...

This is another post that’s probably going to upset a few people. It’s about the predictiveness of puppy temperament testing. Temperament...

Once parasites are ruled out, the most common cause for puppy diarrhea and troublesome weaning is overfeeding.

The danger of overfeeding starts at weaning. Not when the puppies go home. When your puppies are being weaned, they are in a very critical p

Crate training is an important skill for all puppies and dogs to have. Dogs are den animals and instinctively feel secure in a small, cozy s

If at all possible, we avoid bathing young puppies because they aren't able to regulate their body temperatures yet and can get chilled very

When they are frightened or disoriented by these noises they can do things out of character, like destroy property, pee and poop on the floo

A good puppy rearing program instills puppies with the foundation for proper impulse control to help avoid jumping, rushing through doors, g

Simply put, clicker training is the use of a specific sound to let a dog know the exact moment it is doing something we want.

We sometimes worry and care so much about our dogs and that they grow up to be as great as they can that we inadvertently end up creating th

Food rotation provides them with variety, which is important not just for appetite, but for health. Just like with humans, a varied diet is