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Why Your Dog Barks

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Dog barking can signify needs, protection, and dominance. If barking gets out of hand, it is important to be able to train your dog into realizing that you are the Alpha, and not him. The first step in training a dog to stop barking is to find out why he is barking in the first place. Some breeds are simply “barking dogs”.

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Dogs of Courage

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There are also tales of dogs who weren’t specially trained, but who turned out to have skills that helped their humans in unexpected ways! A Rottweiler named Sheba who broke free from her chain and rescued nine of her puppies after her owner buried them alive in a two-foot deep grave because they weren’t purebred.

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Blue-Collar Dogs on Nat Geo WILD

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With olfactory senses generally 100,000 times more powerful than a human’s, dogs are now being trained to detect epilepsy, diabetes and even cancer with a single sniff. In the video: “Guide Dog Puppies” – Meet some of the cutest guide dogs you’ll ever meet! Blue-Collar Dogs: Border Hounds.

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