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8 Easy Ways to Train Your Puppy to Be Obedient in Short Time

8 Easy Ways to Train Your Puppy to Be Obedient in Short Time My neighbor's kid has a dog that sits at the kitchen door and waits every single time. Doesn't beg, doesn't whine, doesn't lean on your leg. Just sits, with a tennis ball at his feet, until somebody opens the door. I asked her how long that took. She said it started with him being a bad dog. I got the story later over a beer, and the short version is that it took about eight months of the boring kind of work, not the showy kind. Nobody filmed any of it. Nobody posted a thirty-second video of the dog going from wild to perfect. It was just a kid in a garage with a bag of treats and a dog who did not care about the bag of treats. That story has been sitting in my head for a month, because it's the honest version of a title like this one, and the honest version is more useful than the promise. Before we get into it, I should say what "short time" actually means here, because I think it gets misunder...
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Why Dogs Are Sensitive to Strange Sounds

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 Why Dogs Are Sensitive to Strange Sounds Introduction I was watching my family's dog, a feisty Chihuahua named Mr. Bojangles, when I heard an odd sound outside of the window. At first, I thought it might be something interesting—maybe a bird or a strange car. But then I realized that the noise wasn't coming from outside at all; it was coming from my dog! He had his head cocked to one side and was staring intently at the window where he'd heard the noise. Then he let out another long, low growl and barked again at some unseen enemy on the other side of the glass. As funny as it looked (see above!), this is actually totally normal behavior for dogs: they're highly sensitive to strange sounds (and sometimes even familiar ones!). Why are dogs so sensitive to noises? Let's take a look at what makes them extra-alert to auditory stimuli and why they react how they do when you hear those weird sounds! Image Source: Pexels Dogs can hear and smell 1 million times more sensit...
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