Training your new puppy to be comfortable on a raised bed can benefit your training in many ways. Trained similar to the touch pad, the raised bed can help with the environmental conditioning and future place bed work. Introducing your puppy to the raised bed in a positive way makes training the place easier as your dog gets older.

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Over the past 9 years, we have seen a definite decline in customers buying dog training DVDs in favor of purchasing online courses or streaming video-on-demand of the DVDs. Both new mediums have their benefits over DVDs. Online courses have benefits over video-on-demand.

I believe in less than 10 years, there will not be any DVDs produced or sold. There are several reasons and this article outlines why I feel we are seeing the slow death of dog training DVDs.

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