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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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Do dogs have a sense of time?

  The moment you walk through the door, your dog is there, tail wagging, as if they knew exactly when you'd arrive. Or perhaps it's the uncanny way they start pacing by their food bowl precisely when dinner is due. It makes you wonder, doesn't it? Do dogs have a sense of time, or is it just a happy coincidence, a trick of our own human perception? I've been thinking about this a lot lately, watching my own furry companion, and it's a question that really gets you pondering the inner world of our canine friends. We humans, we live by clocks and calendars, by minutes and hours and days. But for a dog, does time tick by in the same way? Turns out, it's a bit more nuanced, and frankly, a lot more fascinating than just a simple yes or no. First off, let's talk about the basics, the internal rhythm that guides all living things. Dogs, just like us, have what scientists call circadian rhythms . Think of it as their own biological clock, running on a roughly 24-hour...
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