The holidays can be expensive, but showing your dog love doesn’t have to be.Read More

As dog owners, it’s easy to see our dog’s heightened behaviors—jumping, spinning, barking, hard pulling, etc., in response to something like a visitor’s arrival or saying hello to a new dog—and interpret them as excitement. Often, we assume their big energy means they’re just feeling happy and exuberant. But high arousal doesn’t necessarily equal happiness....Read More

This week, we’re sharing six strategies you can use to take your dog’s Stay from beginner-level to expert-level.Read More

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 of co-regulation.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

Exploring the complex relationship between pain and fear/anxiety/frustration in dogs.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

We're exploring some of the ways we might be missing the mark when it comes to learning about dog body language.Read More