A Simple Question: Heard, Helped or Hugged?
An article in the New York Times focused on borrowing from an approach to dealing with children. When dealing with…
An article in the New York Times focused on borrowing from an approach to dealing with children. When dealing with…
Consider yourself a scientist doing research. Turns out, in many ways, every time we interact with a dog, we are…
A few weeks back, a good friend of mine and fellow trainer, Gemma from Fisher Fix Dogs, asked if I’d…
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/05/28/614386847/what-kind-of-parent-are-you-carpenter-or-gardener When I first encountered psychology & philosophy professor Alison Gopnik’s work, it made me think a lot about how…
Reactive. Intelligent. Aggressive. Distracted. Trainable. These are very big and very broad labels that are used to describe a range…
This is a guest post, from trainer Cindy Knowlton, owner of See Spot Grin in Maryland. Click here for other…
We are a busy species. Our calendars are full, our days and weeks scheduled tight. We dash here and there,…
One says “I’m worried” One warns, “Do not think about it.” Do you know the difference? Resource guarding is a…
At the May 2019 THE PHYSICAL DOG seminar in Austin, hosted by Janice Patton of ARF, we were able to…
Way back in the early 90s, on a snowy day in January, two of my dogs got out of our…