One of the greatest gifts you can give your Golden Retriever (and yourself) is to teach it how to manage distractions in any environment or "distraction" training. Distractions could be another dog,...
Category: Golden Training
The "leave it" skill is one of the most important skills you can teach your dog. This skill ranks right up there with "stay" and "come" in importance. The "leave it" skill, in combination with the...
After completing marker training, "look at me" should be the next skill you teach. The look at me skill is straightforward to teach, and it reinforces the concepts of marker training that you...
Golden Retrievers are one of the best dog breeds you could hope to have and make a great companion. Whether it's a puppy or an adult, Golden Retrievers are intelligent, eager to please, and easy to...
Dog Training Methods: Which One is Best for Golden Retrievers?
Inevitably when you get your Golden Retriever home, you will have to teach it some desired behaviors, and you'll wonder what training method works best to accomplish this goal. While that may sound...
When thinking of dogs that are hard to train, I suspect that for most people, the Golden Retriever is not the first dog that springs to mind. Instead, Golden Retrievers are most often perceived...