You learned in class this week how to ‘sit’ your puppy by directing his head with a treat. ‘Trainer speak’ for this teaching method is “Luring”. It’s called that because your puppy wound up sitting while his nose was following the treat or the ‘lure’. He didn’t make a decision to sit, it happened by [...]
For many of us, learning about dogs isn’t boring or difficult. It comes easy because we’re fascinated by our best friends and competition companions and also want to understand them better. And for many of us, they are a complete mystery – a bit like aliens living among us.
Those Aliens Among Us
Here in the [...]
If you want to know how to make the perfect fleece tug leash, look right here and copy how we make ours.
First buy some top quality fleece fabric, preferably made in America. You’ll need three yards of fabric (6 yards if you want two different colors 3 yards of each).
Then find some soft tubular webbing [...]
This is not a ‘shock collar’ type dog training aid site. We don’t carry that kind of dog training aid here. If you’re looking for that kind of stuff however, you may have come to the right place.
Come Again?!
What?! That didn’t make sense did it? Shock collars on a positive training site? If we don’t [...]
There appears to be differing definitions of the term interactive dog toys. Our definition here at Genuine Dog Gear is that interactive dog toys require the participation of a human or another dog. We’re seeing quite a few puzzle toys for dogs now that are labeled as interactive dog toys, and those toys do make [...]