Hannah Gillihan is a Certified Dog Trainer at Zoom Room Dog Training, a destination for pet parents to play, learn and develop communication skills to deepen their connection with their pup. Negative, ...

A young waterfowling friend recently got a German shorthair and asked me what kind of upland shotgun he should buy so he could take his dog hunting. I said, “That’s the wrong question. You’ve already ...

In what the Kennel Club calls a “historic moment for animal welfare,” the use of electric shock collars on dogs will be banned in England starting February 1, 2024. What is an electronic shock collar?

Yes, that is me, a shotgun columnist telling someone an e-collar is more important than your choice of guns. It’s not just the GPS models that have changed dog training forever, it’s all e-collars.

A slippery slope may sound like an icy patch where you slip and slide, but people use it to refer to situations in which deciding to do something can lead to further actions with undesirable ...

Castle used e-collars with his police dogs and also taught classes for pet owners on how to train dogs using only treats and praise. Those dogs made slow progress, he said, and his clients rarely ...