The Name Game

Every family dog has a name, but not every dog knows its name. Just like how they’re not born to understand commands like “Sit”, “Down” or “Stay”, dogs need to be trained to know their names. How do we engage our dog such that when it hears its name, it’ll take its attention away from something else to focus on you?

Kang Nee, a certified professional dog trainer with a Ph.D. in Zoology, works with us and the dogs in our shelter with her Canine Education programme, helping us train our dogs so they can better adapt to their environment and new homes.

Canine Education @ SPCA Life Skill #1: The Name Game.

Watch as Kiyo (Kang Nee’s dog whom she adopted from us 5 years ago) embarks on his first step to learning his name. In this video, he takes on an alias for the demonstration – http://youtu.be/X07dWxxdFM8



Every family dog has a name, but not every dog knows its name or will respond to it. Here’s the trick of teaching your dog that it’s fun when it does so. In …

Source: http://youtu.be/X07dWxxdFM8

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The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA Singapore) is the first registered animal welfare organisation in Singapore. The two main objectives of SPCA Singapore are: to promote kindness to animals and birds, and to prevent cruelty to animals and birds.

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