This story was produced by Cristal Dyer and distributed by Next Net. Dog obedience directly improves community safety. Well-trained dogs are easier to control, less likely to act aggressively, and ...

The quickest way to annoy friends and alienate people is to bring an untrained dog around a crowd. Take it from someone who has two poorly trained Chihuahuas and has spent years paying for it. My ...

Caroline Gresham and her family have been thinking about adding a new member to their family for a couple of years.So her family, like many others, decided that now might be the chance since they are ...

Obedience training involves training an animal, most often a dog, to obey basic control commands such as sit, down, and heel. There are almost as many methods of training as there are trainers, but ...

In the park across from St. Joseph School in Hilo, passersby can watch as one dog learns to harness its innate sense of smell while another is training with simple commands for the very first time.

If you’re a dog person then you know most things improve in the company of a good dog: walks, runs, drives, hikes, hunts, cold beers, and camping trips, just to name a few. By the same token, not much ...

I was about a month into raising a new border collie puppy, Alsea, when I came to an embarrassing realization: my dog had yet to meet a person who doesn’t look like me. I’d read several books on ...

FAYETTEVILLE — When Jessica Scott tells her dog to “stop,” he runs. When she tells him to “sit,” he stands. “I just need him to listen to me,” Scott said. Scott and her dachshund named, “Dog Dog,” ...