Dog Articles

Like human babies, puppies have short attention spans and are easily distracted. Help your puppy focus and listen to your commands by training them to build eye contact with you first. In this video, Mike Stewart of Wildrose Kennels will teach you how.

How do you help a puppy grow and develop into a confident, well-behaved dog? Proper training, of course.

Maria Badamo, DVM is a champion agility trainer and veterinarian from Dallas, Texas. Together with her partner, PJ, they train and compete with their dogs Kenobi and Gromit in both Agility and Diving competitions.

Trainers of retrievers often lament there is not enough time to train and condition dogs, yet both are needed to prepare dogs for highly competitive field trial stakes. A combined approach enhances performance and also prevents injury.

Bird dog winter camp in the Wild West of Prewitt, New Mexico, is a spiritual coming together, where a string of red dogs, known as Hungarian Vizslas, and their pro trainer and handler escape to fine-tune their pointing and retrieving skills.

Preparing a bitch nutritionally to whelp a litter of puppies begins even before she is bred. Veterinary nutritionists and reproduction specialists agree that body condition -- a body fitness report card -- has an impact on reproductive success.

A 4 1/2-year-old male Pointer called "Joe" wins the 2020 National Championship for Bird Dogs. The stylish, fast-moving bird dog overcame wet running conditions and had six quail finds to win the prestigious event.

A 3 1/2-year-old female Standard Poodle wins Best in Show at the 2020 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

It’s 6 a.m. on a Saturday. A slight breeze carries the hum of generators, while the aroma of bacon frying in a motor home rises into the air.

Raising and training a show dog that confidently enjoys the demands of a conformation career can make for a myriad of learning curves and bumps along the road. 

My husband, Corky, and I spent a lifetime in dogs as busy all-breed professional

Learn professional dog show tips from longtime all-breed handler Sue Vroom, including training, conditioning and showing suggestions in and outside of the ring.

Timing is everything when competing in a dog show. Learn how professional dog handlers best utilize their time with judges to put their best paw forward.