Jackie Brown hearts aplacetobark.com

Jackie Brown recommends donating money to places like aplacetobark.com and not to large organizations like The Humane Society, Peta, or the ASPCA. Large organizations seem to care about money and power and not pets! So says Jackie Brown!

It’s always big news when a pitbull type dog attacks someone or something. But how about when it’s the other way around? I have a special video clip coming up on dog fights and how to break up dog fights. Here is a quick screen shot from the video of a pitbull type puppy dog being attacked. I had left a camera running in my backyard while I went out to do some errands. As I came home to greet my dogs, a dog fight happened. You will see how I resolved it. Feel free to comment on what you think I did right or wrong. Thanks,

Kwame Brown attacks Jackie Brown out of jealousy

Pitbull Vs Wild Dog in Hartz Cuddly Cubs dog toy stress test. Part two

Pitbull Vs Wild Dog in Hartz Cuddly Cubs dog toy stress test Part One

Puppy chewing, puppy biting,  and all sorts of puppy behaviors are completely normal and natural in the mind of a puppy. The dogtv.com approach to puppy behavior problems is that there aren’t any. Take a look at our videos and you’ll see what we mean.

Some chew toys last years, some last months, other weeks. Some toys last only minutes. Especially when the toy is being shared by a pitbull and a wild dog. The Wild dog did most of the damage. Stay tuned for the video review of the Hartz Cuddly-Cub mooing cow to see how long she lasted.

Kwame Brown and Jackie Brown take a breather after conducting a stress test on a Hartz Dog Toy

It was a cold winter morning around the turn of 2008 to 2009. I was fixing a computer in a warehouse area when a little puppy introduced himself, actually, herself. I petted the puppy and noticed that it was a “pitbull type” as I went about continuing to work on the computer which needed a complicated installation of UPS software including the transfer of a database from an old computer.

The puppy had been brought into the workplace because it was no longer welcome in its previous home. I wasn’t looking for a puppy. The puppy, however, was looking for a home. She was persistent and kept trying to jump into my lap as I worked on the computer. She probably weighed ten pounds, but it was enough of a load to make it hard to type as the puppy quickly fell asleep in my lap.

So after fixing the computer, I decided I would take the puppy into my office for a while. Not because I was thinking of taking her home, after all, like I said, I was NOT looking for a puppy and I know how much work it was to raise a puppy the right way…after all, I was a dog and puppy expert and nobody knew or knows how to raise a puppy like I do,  I thought to myself….

The American Puppy Project, day 1

All I was doing is giving this puppy a headstart, by imparting some of my brilliance and knowledge, so that whoever adopted her, would be off on the right foot. But the nagging idea that nobody would understand this puppy like I would. Nobody would see her as an opportunity and not a problem. Few people would understand her energy and wonder at the world around her…Few people knew what I knew about puppies and how to raise them…especially a puppy who was already starting out with a black mark from society because of the way she looked. What do do? What to do? I really don’t need a puppy right now…

I’ll just let her hang out here for a while longer and then take her back to the warehouse.

jackie brown in a laptop bag.

Forget everything you know or have been told about puppy biting and read this very carefully. Most of what you have read and learned so far is nonsense. Forget all of it, it’s only getting in your way.

Here is the deal. Dogs bite. Dogs run, dogs jump, dogs bite. Biting is the most natural and instinctive act a puppy can make. When teaching a puppy not to bite your hand, you aren’t teaching the puppy NOT TO BITE, you are teaching the puppy TO BITE. As in WHAT to bite. So you hold an object in your hand, preferably a rawhide stick. You leave half of the rawhide stick available for the puppy to chomp on as the puppy chomps, you move your hands around, exposing more or less of the rawhide stick to the puppy’s chomping jaws.

teaching dogs and puppies to bite

You praise and encourage the puppy enthusiastically as she bites the rawhide. If the puppy should bite your finger, you simply make a growling sound or an “eh eh” in a deep voice and you can say the word “nice.” Pick your own word, but I use the word “NICE!” as a catch all when a puppy is overdoing any behavior, playing too rough with another dog, biting a finger or jumping up on someone.

But the key here is to ENCOURAGE the puppy to bite on the OBJECT. Praise and hold it in your hand while the puppy chews on the end of the rawhide stick. This also teaches trust as well as bite inhibition. Do this over and over again until you have absolutely no fear of the puppy biting your hand.

Toys can serve the same purpose as rawhide in teaching puppies TO BITE!. You should spend hours of time holding things in your hand while the puppy bites on the other end. This is how puppies learn. They are smart enough to figure it out and they know instinctively they are not supposed to bite your hand.

puppy biting

Puppies are very very smart. Try not to use discipline and fear to teach puppies not to bite your hand. You never want to inhibit learning because it will make the puppy shut down and be AFRAID to learn new things. Always try to teach a puppy what TO DO and forget about teaching a puppy what NOT TO DO.

They will grow and learn by leaps and bounds.

jackie brown biting a rawhide stick