🐶 Are you in the 92% of dog owners who train their own dog?

Then this newsletter is for you! The Sit & Stay newsletter offers dog training tips, pet health advice, and interesting dog facts in partnership with Canine Trade Group, a distinguished national network of dog trainers.

Training Tip of the Week:

Basic Obedience: The Key to Canine Bliss

If you’re struggling with your dog’s behavior, it’s time to take training back to basics. Is your dog anxious? Aggressive? Pulling on the leash? Solve it all by teaching your dog to sit, stay, and come.

Sound too good to be true? Research shows that basic obedience training provides your dog with structure, self-control, and focus.

So, while teaching your dog basic obedience is a challenge in its own right, helping your dog learn or relearn reliable responses will pay off and provide the building blocks you need to address bigger problems.

Sit & Stay Pro Tip for teaching your dog to sit:

Build leadership by allowing your dog to earn the things they want. The sit command is a great way for them to do this. Ask your dog to sit before walking through a doorway, taking a toy from you, or eating their meal. They get what they want by doing what you ask.

One way to teach the sit command is through a method called luring. Work on this at your dog’s pace until they fully grasp the idea.

1. Place a small training treat in your hand (about the size of a pea).

2. Make a fist around the treat and bring it over your dog’s head. If they jump up, start over.

3. Move your fist in an arch from your dog’s nose to their hind end.

4. When your dog’s nose points up (following the treat in your hand), they will sit.

5. Say “sit” when your dog sits and give them the treat as a reward.

Canine Trade Group has trainers across the United States. All CTG trainers use the Decisions, not Dominance protocol, which sets dogs up for success—no yelling necessary!

The Smile Section:

Vet Recommendations:

Is your dog's bad behavior health related? — animalwellnessmagazine.com

In this 2020 article from Animal Wellness Magazine, Carol Osbourne, DVM, discusses how a dog’s health may affect behavior.

Highlights include:

• Get to know your dog’s “normal” so you can recognize their abnormal.

• Destructive chewing may be a sign of gastrointestinal distress.

• Urinating inside the house could be a sign of diabetes, kidney disease, or UTI.

• Arthritis, loss of hearing, tumors, and dementia can cause changes in temperament.

Product Spotlight:

Does the Perfect Kibble exist? — yumwoof.com

Who are we kidding? We focus on the quality of our dog's diet more than our own. (Hello, breakfast Oreos!)

We love Yumwoof's perfect kibble, an anti-inflammatory kibble backed by 250 clinical studies.

Dog owners love it. Just check out this review:

"Perfect Kibble resolved my dog's skin allergies. They went away entirely after 4 weeks. Great ingredients and she clearly loves the flavor."

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