New puppy: How to teach?

My puppy Phoebe is now 9 months old. I go to dogschool sometimes to learn how to teach my dog, but she teaches me a lot too.
These are the most important things I've learned so far:

- Check in:
When the dog looks you in the eye, reward her. Do this a lot and the dog will love you much more and will watch you much more. She needs to look at you before you give an command in order for her to do what you asked.

- Encouraging:
They say "As owner, as dog". If you believe in your dog, she will believe in herself.
"Lazy owner, lazy dog" -> The dog won't be active if you don't feel like being active yourself!

- Touching:
As owner it's very important your dog allows you to touch her anywhere. Her paws, legs, ears, mouth,.. It also makes the vets visits easier if she used to this since she has been a puppy.

- Teaching commands:
The most importing thing when a dog is learning something: rewards.

- When rewarding:
Right after the dog did something good (fraction of a second).

- Personal experience:
Say a word (e.g. "good dog") right before you give a reward. That way the dog will associate this word with the reward (candy or something) and it's not such a bad thing to be later than a fraction of a second when rewarding if you immediatly say "good dog".

New ideas: Names for pets

These are both Dutch and English names. And of course names for dogs can be used for cats and vice versa.
Dogs

• Snuffel
• Mickey
• Perdi
• Sirius
• Sherlock
• Bobby
• Lucky
• Pongo
• Glert
• Clunkers
• Hondje
• Pruto
• Sluipvoet
• Padfoot
• Moony
• Maanling
• Lupos
• Lupin
• Graffel
• Odie
• Billie
• Santa's Little Helper
• Blacky
• Flipper
• Nala
• Simba
• Moefasa
• Scar
• Pluto
• Growy
• Growly
• Arcia
• Pekkie
• Luma
• Scabbers
• Fluffie
• Zappie
• Tipsie
• Topsie
• Prongs
• sunnie
• Diggy
• Doggy
• Dicky
• Digger
• Samson
• Bobbientje
• Woefie
• Woefke
• Tobias
• Loopy
• Loony
• James Hond
• Scottie

Cats

• Knikkebeen
• Norks
• Figaro
• Garfield
• Pruts
• Nermal
• Remo
• Michael
• Mars
• Venus
• Jupiter
• Neptunus
• Angel
• Poessie
• Minou
• Meowth
• Snowball
• Persian

New blog changes

After being a bit out of posting, I decided to (try to) post every day, but not only about The Sims.
There are many other things I love in life and I want them to share on this blog too.
Don't worry, The Sims (downloads and requests) will stay the main topic of the blog, but there is just not enough to say about it to post every day and I want to keep this blog busy.

So I have thought of the other things I can post about and here's a list (I love lists):
You're of course free to let me know what you think of this... (comments are possible anonymous)
Suggestions are always welcome!

The Sims
- New Ideas
- New Downloads
- New Situations
- New Stories
- New Family Trees
- New Descriptions
- New Links
- New Conversions (The Sims 3)

Pets
- Simba °21/04/2011 and my cat since 29/06/2011
- Phoebe °24/04/2012 and my dog since 05/10/2012
- Kitties/Doggies in general

Music
- Elvis Presley °08/01/1935 - *16/08/1977. My favourite singer since 16/08/2002
- Other remarkable events in the present (deaths, births,...)

Film and entertainment
- Friends (serie with Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston)
- Harry Potter
- Twilight
- The Big Bang Theory

Other
- Scientific things like biorythm, the earth,...
- Polls
- Always pictures
- New Day of My Life