by Kate Fitzsimmons | Aug 22, 2019 | Dog Training
August 22, 2019 Reprinted from the Marin IJ newspaper, February 20, 2019. By Kate Fitzsimmons” What family wouldn’t want help potty training and socializing a new puppy? Hillary’s Hound House offers that and much more, especially for families with young children....
by Hillary Alexander | Aug 20, 2019 | Dog Training
When we allow puppies to roughhouse with each other, especially with larger puppies they quickly move from lighthearted play to sparring and mock battle. What they are doing is reverting/regressing to sibling behaviors that encourage competition and bringing down...
by Hillary Alexander | Feb 22, 2019 | Dog Training
In the old days when I was growing up socializing puppies wasn’t something anyone planned. People turned their puppies and dogs out together and hoped for the best. The larger, more affable puppies tended to have an easy time and we chalked that up to their...
by Hillary Alexander | Feb 22, 2019 | Dog Training
Socialization is a bit more complicated than most people think. Rather, socializing a puppy means teaching him social skills, impulse control, and lessons in how to play with, greet, and interact with other puppies, dogs, and people. It’s a multi layered process....
by Hillary Alexander | Jan 13, 2019 | Dog Training
Imagine for a moment you have a four-year-old she wanted to go into a playground nearby. In that playground are 13 and 14-year-old kids and they’re playing with no supervision. Are you going to send her in? Throughout many years of asking this question I have yet to...
by Hillary Alexander | Jun 22, 2016 | Dog Training
Sometimes a dog can become frightened of something he’s known his entire life. Take Ralph, an 18 month old beagle that developed a terror of grocery carts. Ralph had excelled in our Jumpstart Puppy Program as a youngster and knew the in’s and out’s of grocery carts at...
