A few weeks back, a good friend of mine and fellow trainer, Gemma from Fisher Fix Dogs, asked if I’d…
PODCAST: The Deal With Animals/Marika Bell interviews Suzanne Clothier
Here are two interviews with anthrozoologist Marika Bell on her podcast, The Deal with Animals. The original interview July 21,…
Behavioral Flexibility is a Many Splendored Thing
Reactive. Intelligent. Aggressive. Distracted. Trainable. These are very big and very broad labels that are used to describe a range…
Breed Doesn’t Determine Personality study
The original study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0639 I’ve now read several of the articles written on this study, and chose this one as…
Learning to Listen by Cindy Knowlton
This is a guest post, from trainer Cindy Knowlton, owner of See Spot Grin in Maryland. Click here for other…
Resource Guarding — Or Rule Setting?
One says “I’m worried” One warns, “Do not think about it.” Do you know the difference? Resource guarding is a…
Slow Motion Chihuahua Spinning
At the May 2019 THE PHYSICAL DOG seminar in Austin, hosted by Janice Patton of ARF, we were able to…
Your Aggression, Dog’s Aggression
From the University of Pennsylvania comes an interesting new study that actually looks at how an owner’s aggressive behavior affects…
Keep the Claws in the Paws
When he arrived a few years ago, he was barely 9 ounces but already close to 6 weeks old. Every…
Outdated Theories & Anti-Depressants
Veterinary medicine often parallels but lags behind human medicine. In the field of treating emotional and mental disorders ranging from…
