How to bring your pets to heel in your home

Kya deLongchamps goes in search of expert advice on training animals — even cats — and deals with the impact on the household and with neighbours.

YOU reach the front door, nerves smouldering from work and stress and their reignited at the racket within. Are they disembowelling a wildebeest? Shouldering the door against the Tasmanian devils, an exploded bolster cushion trips your journey.