Your dog is capable of more than you give them credit for. Raise the bar and hold them accountable to be better, well-mannered, contributing members of society. If your dog's impulse control has slackened, here's some homework to follow up on.

You have probably heard the phrase (and know it to be true) that “you are what you eat.” The same goes for our dogs.

As you pull up to the traffic light, it switches from green to yellow.

What do you do?

Keep going and hope you make it through the intersection before it turns red, taking a chance that you won’t hit someone or someone else won’t hit you?

Or do you stop and wait for the light to turn back to green?

Hey Sara, do you know if there’s a way to have a dog not be e-collar savvy? My dogs do behave better when they know their e-collars are on, but is there ever a time when they don’t need it anymore or is there a way to get them to listen without it?

These are a few reasons why scheduled feeding is far better than free feeding that I have personally seen with my dog owners and my own dogs…