Your dog hits the front door like a linebacker every time someone walks in. Guests get scratched. Kids get knocked over. Your elderly mother-in-law is genuinely afraid to visit. You've tried pushing him off, kneeing him in the chest, telling him no, and none of it has made a dent. If anything he seems more excited about the whole thing than ever. Dog jumping on people is one of those problems that looks simple from the outside and turns out to be a lot more complicated once y

You put your dog in the crate and he loses his mind. Barking, howling, scratching, throwing himself against the door like it personally offended him. You feel guilty. Your neighbors are done with you. And you're starting to wonder if crate training is cruel, or if your dog is just broken. Neither is true. Crate training a dog is one of the most useful things you can do for him — for housebreaking, for travel, for his ability to settle when the world gets loud. I've been train

How a Professional Trainer Can Help Your dog barks at the mail carrier, at squirrels, at cars, at nothing you can see. He barks when you leave. He barks when guests arrive. He barks at 6 a.m. because a neighbor's porch light came on. You've tried ignoring it, yelling over it, spraying water, shaking cans. Nothing has worked and your neighbors have started leaving passive-aggressive notes. Excessive barking in dogs is one of the most common reasons owners reach out to a profes