Since I first moved to Raleigh in 2013, dog training methods here haven’t evolved as much as I’d hoped. While I’m delighted to see that more dog trainers are using…

For decades, dog training was synonymous with group classes. You couldn’t visit a retail pet store, either big box or independent, without seeing advertisements for its puppy classes or observing…

In 2007, when I took my puppy to advanced puppy class, we had fun, despite my sometimes uneasy feeling about our dog trainer, whose nature struck me as dictatorial, and…