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Parents Magazine just published this article in their September 2007 issue which has some really useful info about kids and dogs by Kathleen M. Reilly, who is a writer, not a trainer, but who is a member of the Dog Writers Association of America and also writes for Dog Fancy. You can also reference Heather’s Infants and Dogs [...]

Charlotte Schwartz from DogChannel.com got it partly right. Of course, you don’t want to reward your dog for attention-getting barking, but having your dog sit as a way of asking for attention won’t achieve the ideal behavior either.  We don’t need dogs coming over and ’throwing sits’ at us either.  So when should you give attention and praise? When your dog is laying passively [...]

Here is some useful info I found on crate training and also some advice on what type of crate to select from DogChannel.com.