About Best Sellers in Dog Beds These lists, updated hourly, contain bestselling items. Here you can discover the best Dog Beds in Amazon Best Sellers, and find the top 100 most popular Amazon Dog Beds. Published on Apr 5, 2010 - Ever tried training a beagle or any dog for that matter? Do you want to learn training tips that will turn your beagle or dog into a more obedient dog? Here are 8 tips that will work... The best results that are produced while training your beagle are the simplest acts. Within any packs of dogs the alpha sets the rules while the rest follows. It is best to establish yourself as the alpha. This way you can be sure that your beagle obedience training sessions will be more productive. Here are eight tips that will teach your new Beagle puppy or adult that you are the alpha in the pack. 1. NEVER HIT YOUR BEAGLE FOR MISBEHAVING. Instead use the tone of your voice and a collar/leash to teach and make corrections. 2. Never leave a hyper Beagle unexercised.
Playing ball before you leave for work and after you return can help alleviate their pent-up energy. 3. Never feed your hound from your plate while you are eating. They must learn that you are the alpha and that they can only eat when you are finished with your meal. 4. Never keep them alone in a yard for days at a time. Without proper socialization your hound will become aggressive towards other dogs as well as other humans. They need contact with their own species in order to learn how to behave in a dog pack equally as well as they must learn to behave in a human pack. A Beagle left alone for long periods of time will believe they are the alpha and will try to dictate to you instead of the other way around. 5. Never allow your Beagle on the sofa or on your bed. And if your hound sits in your path, gently shove it out of the way with your foot. By setting boundaries, you will instill in them that it must obey the alpha. 6. Never allow your hound to jump on you or your guests.
Its fun when your Beagle is a puppy, but it is not fun when they become heavier. Practice with a collar and leash and set up situations where a neighbor rings your doorbell while your dog awaits their entrance. Make a sharp correction and command them to "sit" as your neighbor enters the house. And, of course, do not forget to praise them as soon as they follow your command. Once they know what to do, try the same thing off the leash, but this time use a water spray bottle and spray them in the face with water as punishment for jumping and with a stern vocal correction of "NO". Proceed to praise them once again when they obey your command. This way, they will learn to associate praise with correct action. 7. Never allow them to chew on your towels, socks, shoes, or clothing. Use bitter apple to discourage these types of behaviors. 8. Never allow a puppy to chew on your fingers. Otherwise, it will become a habit that will be very hard to break when they become an adult.
Spray you hands and fingers with bitter apple and then allow them to proceed. They will learn not to bite your fingers without associating any negative thoughts about you as the alpha. By following these steps, you will establish yourself as the alpha. And, you will have a head start in training your beagle because they will have already learned to respect your authority as their leader. Want to learn more beagle training tips to keep your beagle from misbehaving? Learn the secrets that many have learned to help their Beagles become more obedient. now to learn more!I sleep with my pets. For more than 20 years, cats have shared my bed. My late cat, Shlomo, used to spend the night perched on top of my head, and I found this purring beret deeply comforting. When I just had cats, it never occurred to me that having pets in the bed was anything more than a harmless personal preference. Then I got a beagle and discovered the issue of allowing your dog to sleep with you is deeply fraught.
Supposedly, bed privileges destroy the owner's standing as pack leader. Allowing a dog in the bed, I learned, is a critical dog-rearing error, like giving brandy to quiet a cranky baby and ending up with an alcoholic teenager. The dogma was everywhere. A recent Washington Post interview with a dog trainer stated that a dog in bed is "a sign the dog is completely in charge. Get the dog off your bed. It can make a bigger difference than anyone can imagine." How To Be Your Dog's Best Friend, the dog obedience manual by the Monks of New Skete, advises letting the dog sleep on the floor in your bedroom, but never in your bed. A dog trying to get too intimate should receive "slapped paws and a shove off"—not wholly surprising advice from celibate trainers. Despite this, my beagle, Sasha, got the opportunity to settle in for the night when my husband declared he was evicting from the bed our two current cats, all 36 pounds of them. He explained, "In the middle of the night they run up and down my body, then they sit on my chest and crush it."
Since I am a light sleeper, I told my husband it was hard to believe his description of our cats' ramblings. Ever the considerate wife, I suggested he might be having nocturnal psychotic episodes. "Do I have to install a video camera?" he said. "They march up and down my body like they're on a picket line, then they sit on me. They're driving me crazy." A few nights later, cats still in the bed, I got up at 4 a.m. to go to the bathroom. When I returned, there was Biscuit, sitting in the middle of my sleeping husband's chest, peering into his open mouth as if about to perform periodontal surgery. Goldie was climbing up my husband's legs. It was painful, but I agreed the next morning to banish the cats to the basement at night. That left an opening for Sasha. She liked to curl up like an armadillo between our pillows during the day, but we had always moved her to her crate for the night. Despite the warnings of provoking deep status anxiety (my own), I decided to let her stay in the bed.
I figured it was impossible that Sasha could wreak more havoc than she already was; she obviously wanted to be with us; and I missed the cats. Except for the occasional bout of rabbit-chasing during REM sleep, she has been a quiet and companionable bedmate. While her daytime behavior seems no worse, I have been troubled that I might be making a mistake that could come back to bite me. There is historical evidence that sleeping with pets is not necessarily aberrant behavior. According to The International Encyclopedia of Dogs, the xoloitzquintli, or Mexican hairless, was used in pre-Aztec Mexico as both pet and bed warmer (and dinner—let's not talk about that here). An account from a 19th-century explorer in Australia, as quoted in The Domestic Dog, describes how Aborigines were so devoted to their dingoes that the dogs were treated as members of the family and allowed to sleep in the hut. (The rock group Three Dog Night takes its name from the supposed Aboriginal practice of judging the coldness of an evening by the number of dogs required to keep warm.)
And here in the land of the electric blanket and the 600-fill goose-down comforter, millions of pet owners are, like me, sacking out with their animals. A survey from the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association found that about 62 percent of American dog and cat owners keep their animals in the house at night, and of those, about half the cats and one-third of the dogs spend the night on the bed. Dr. John Shepard Jr., a physician at the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorders Center, discovered so many of his haggard patients slept with their animals that he did a survey to see how much the pets disturbed their sleep: About half the pet sleepers said their animal woke them nightly. But here's the good news. My unscientific survey of veterinary behaviorists concluded that as long as your pets are good at sleeping with you, it's just fine to sleep with them. Pets are not going to get any uppity ideas just because you're all snoring together, they say. Dr. Marsha Reich, who has a private animal-behavior practice in Maryland, says she disagrees with the notion that your dog will try to dominate you if allowed in bed.
"It has nothing to do with social status," she says. The dog, like the owner, just likes being cozy and having a soft place to sleep. "Unless a dog growls when you roll over, I don't have a problem with a dog in the bed." Dr. Nicholas Dodman, author of If Only They Could Speak and director of the Animal Behavior Clinic at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, celebrates the "warm and fuzzy feeling" of all species curling up in bed together. This is not to say that some animals don't abuse the privilege. He tells of one couple who came to him after their Yorkshire terrier, who liked to settle in with the wife when she went to bed early to read, took to lunging at the husband when he arrived. There was an obvious solution, and the couple chose it: The husband moved to the guest room. When this proved maritally unsatisfying, they turned to Dr. Dodman. He says such animals have to be re-educated by being placed in a crate at night, or even attached to a dog bed with a long line.
The most common problem with sleeping with cats, says Dr. Lynne Seibert, a behaviorist at the Veterinary Specialty Center in Lynnwood, Wash., is—as my husband can attest—they don't sleep. "Most of the issues I see are about exuberant play," she says. "They've got a captive audience and end up pouncing and scratching." The usual cause is that the cats have been home sleeping all day, leaving them ready to party all night. Seibert recommends getting the cats more daytime stimulation and engaging in a play session with them before bed. , writes that there's no reason a well-behaved dog shouldn't sleep on the bed. However, she recommends having the dog trained to reliably obey a "get off the bed" command, to be used in particular for those moments when "people want to be intimate." (For couples who don't use that command, she does not deal with the psychological damage the humans suffer when they find even their most fervent lovemaking doesn't wake the dog.) I was relieved to learn that Sasha can stay, but I realized, even if the experts had told me I shouldn't let her, it wouldn't have made any difference.