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Strategies for Managing Weight in Food-Obsessed Dogs (With Printable Progress Charts & Games)

Pippa Mattinson — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 14:21:20 +0000

Weight gain is sneaky. It creeps up when we are not looking. And our dogs are no different from us in that respect. You live with your dog every day and you probably won’t notice weight gain that happens slowly over many months. So you mustn’t be too hard on yourself if you wake up...

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The Best Time To Neuter Your Dog: Different Perspectives

Pippa Mattinson — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:34:41 +0000

Depending on who you ask, the best time to neuter a dog could be anything from 3 months old to never. And that’s because different people look at neutering from different perspectives. You really need to consider what your perspective is, before you seek advice, if you want to get an answer that works best...

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7 Awesome Reasons To Play Fetch With Your Dog

Pippa Mattinson — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:41:17 +0000

A well designed fetch training program does so much more than simply teach your dog to retrieve. Here are just a few of the benefits. #1 You’ll Be More Important To Your Dog When a human is the center of their dog’s world, the possibilities for further training and teamwork are endless. The best students...

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11 Ways To Bond With Your Black Labrador

Lucy Easton — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:51:31 +0000

Well bonded dogs are happy, settled, and let’s face it, much easier and nicer to live with than ones who feel less secure in their attachments. And what’s wonderful, is that once you start to connect more to your black Labrador, you’ll realise that the benefits for both of you go even further. Whether it’s...

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Introducing ‘Fetch’ – Force-Free Retrieving for Every Dog

Pippa Mattinson — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:10:20 +0000

As dog owners, we all benefit from the joy and energy our beloved companions bring into our lives. Especially the joy part. Sometimes the ‘energy’ part can be a bit much! But what if there was a way to channel that energy, without squashing the joy? And what if that way also kept our dogs...

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Why Do Dogs Dig In Their Beds?

Sarah Holloway — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:43:00 +0000

Lots of dogs dig a little, or a lot, at some point in their lives. Some breeds are more hardwired to do it than others. But a lot of the instincts which cause dogs to dig up their bedding are universal to all breeds. So the difference between a dog who can’t resist digging in...

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10 Labrador Myths Busted

Sarah Holloway — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:05:32 +0000

Labradors are one of the world’s most popular, and most talked about, dog breeds. But here at The Labrador Site HQ, we’re sometimes taken aback by the things said about them. So in this article, it’s time for some myth busting! I’ve compiled a list of most commonly-circulated misconceptions about Labs that we’ve heard over...

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Is It Something I Did? Human Factors in Dog Aggression

Sarah Holloway — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:13:55 +0000

In this article I want to share with you some interesting headlines from a recent research paper about aggressive behavior in dogs. Aggressive behavior isn’t something that’s pleasant to think about, and hopefully it’s something you’ll never encounter. But we all share the potential to become better dog owners by understanding why dogs sometimes resort...

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American Labrador: Raising And Training A Lab From Working Lines

Pippa Mattinson — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 11:13:00 +0000

I have been around working retrievers for most of my life but it wasn’t until I started talking to retriever trainers in the USA that I came across the phrase American Labrador. You hear the term used more widely now, but in the UK it’s still more common for American Labs to be referred to...

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Paws Off My Stuff! (Or How To Stop Your Dog Stealing!)

Pippa Mattinson — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 13:15:55 +0000

Fed up with your dog stealing your shoes, your kid’s toys, food from the table, and anything else they can grab or lay their paws on? You are not alone! And I’m going to show you how to help your dog turn over a new leaf and stop stealing your stuff. And we’ll have a special...

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