July 29th, 2010
Golf, and the Game of Dog Training
I haven’t played golf in years. Don’t have the time; but I do remember what it was like to walk the course with my buddies. Ladies, I don’t know much about what goes on when women get together to play golf, but here is how the guys do it: When a foursome of buddies get...
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A Small Dog Teething People
I have an ongoing survey tied to AsmallDog.com, which you can find at this link. I’ve gotten some very interesting responses from the survey so far. Although people say they are having a variety of problems with their small dogs, there are three items that show up strongest: Non-stop barking, occasional biting, and failure to...
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Rubbing A Dog’s Nose in His Own Stool
I can’t believe it. There are still people out there that believe rubbing a dog’s nose in its own stool will teach the dog not to eliminate in the house. Can you believe it? Here’s proof: Kayla, a member of the AsmallDog.com community has been having trouble house training her Chihuahua. Here is an excerpt...
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Paper Training Small Dogs, Good Intentions, Bad Results
Reader Carole wrote to me that she has three small dogs that urinate wherever they feel like it inside her home. She said she paper trained her dogs. In her email to me, she wrote: “They are 90 percent paper trained but will do it [urinate] other places [in the house] too.” Here’s the problem...
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Help! My Small Dog is Out of Control and My Boyfriend is Not Helping
The following was sent in from a reader in response to my article on Small Dog Syndrome. You can find the full comment at the bottom of the article. Here’s a link to the original article. “MY DOG KNOWS I DONT LIKE HIM ON THE BED, BUT HE ALSO KNOWS THAT MY BF [boyfriend] THINKS...
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Small Dog Buddies
If you own two small dogs, do they like to hang out with each other? Even if you only have one small dog, does he have a dog buddy in the neighborhood? Here’s why I ask. We dog behaviorists love to talk about pack theory. We seem to think everything a dog does can be...
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How to Stop Small Dog Aggression at the Front Door
Halloween is almost here, and you may be worried about how your dog is going to handle all those trick-or-treaters coming to your front door. Here’s how to take charge of the situation well before trouble begins. . This article quotes Dale Stavroff, in his book Let the Dog Decide. Some of the quoted material...
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A Small Dog Halloween Horror
“Trick or treat. Give me something good to eat. Don’t hold back and don’t be lazy, or I’ll drive your small dog crazy.” Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. What’s not to like? You get to dress up in a costume and play another character. It’s an excuse to eat a bunch of junk...
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Small Dog As Child
There is a recurring theme in small dog ownership that keeps rearing its head. I believe it’s at the heart of most of the problems we have with small dogs. The theme is this: we tend to confuse our small dogs with children. Many of us say, “Oh, I know he’s just a dog,” while...
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A Rescued Dog’s Threatening Behavior
In response to my third article about coping with a rescued dog’s weird behavior, a reader sent in a good question. (The original, unedited comment can be found at the bottom of an article at this link.) Her question and my response follow: . We have had a rescued maltipoo for about three months. He...
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- Small Dog Syndrome
- Territoriality: One Key to Small Dog Syndrome
- Help! My Small Dog is Out of Control and My Boyfriend is Not Helping
- How to Stop Small Dog Aggression at the Front Door
- What the Heck is a Small Dog?
- A Rescued Dog's Threatening Behavior
- Small Dog Buddies
- Housetraining a Small Dog
- When a Small Dog Bites
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About
Jeff Kanarish is first and foremost a lover of small dogs. He has two of his own--Royce and Kelsey. Jeff applied his background in Psychology to dog behavior when he and his wife, Dawn opened a dog boarding and grooming shop for small dogs in Atlanta in 2005. Although customers came to the shop to have their dogs groomed or boarded, they kept asking the same question over and over: "Why does my dog do that?" Jeff finds the answers and places them here, in AsmallDog.com. For more detail on Jeff, click this link: My Story 
