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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...

Why do so many people hate having dogs?

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Why do so many people hate having dogs? Photo by Ray Bilcliff  ON pexels Introduction I have been a dog lover for as long as I can remember. The first time I encountered someone who didn't like dogs was when I was in sixth grade. It happened at a birthday party where the host's parents were out of town, so we had the house to ourselves. One of my friends had brought along his puppy and put him in one of the bedrooms while we played video games. When the boy opened up a bag of chips, he discovered that someone had eaten through it—and not just one chip, but the entire bag! When we asked who was responsible for this crime against humanity, no one would own up to it until another friend said "It wasn't me." We all turned around and saw her sitting there with her favorite stuffed animal...who happened to look exactly like Mr. Bear from Toy Story (or if you don't know what that is then just imagine any stuffed bear toy). She didn't seem bothered by this revelat...