Your resource for dog training, behavior therapy, and canine behavioral health articles, videos, and quick tips, from our team of certified dog trainers, behavior consultants, and veterinary behaviorists.
This week, we’re talking about co-regulation. If you’ve ever heard that our dogs “feed off our energy”—and that, if we want our dogs to be calm and relaxed, the first step is feeling that way ourselves—you’re familiar with the basic premise...Read More
This week, we’re talking about on-leash greetings with other dogs—something many dog owners assume to be a positive socialization opportunity for their pup, but that many dog trainers would prefer to see banished altogether.Read More
Diving into the existing research to explore if, how, and to what degree owner personality impacts the likelihood of a dog displaying behavior issues like fear, anxiety, and aggression.Read More
Exploring one of the most important, and also most overlooked, natural behaviors in our dogs’ ethograms (catalogs of behavior)—Relaxed Observation.Read More
We’re revealing some common “bad” behaviors that we, as dog trainers, regularly allow and sometimes even encourage—with our own dogs, and with clients’ dogs (with their approval, of course!).Read More
