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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...

Dogs love to hear what their owners have to say

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Dogs love to hear what their owners have to say Introduction There's little doubt that dogs are man's best friend. (Well, woman's best friend, too?) But what makes dogs so special is that their feelings for humans run deep and go beyond basic friendship. Dogs love us unconditionally, and we love them. And now there's even more reason to love our furry friends—it turns out that they really do like listening to us talk, which can make for some pretty adorable conversations between people and their pets. So much research has been done on animal behavior in recent years, and it's all come together to reveal just how much your dog loves you: Dogs love their humans, no matter what you sound like. Dogs are social animals, pack animals. They love their humans, no matter what you sound like. Dogs are loyal, affectionate and smart. They can learn language and commands just like a toddler learning to talk or a child learning how to read—they are capable of learning words and c...