Helping fearful dogs
In order to help a scared dog, and this is true whether the dog is scared and freezes up, flees or becomes aggressive, you must have an understanding of these concepts. Fortunately they don't require a degree in rocket science. Counter conditioning-by pairing something a dog feels good about, with something it doesn't feel so good about you can change how the dog feels about ...
While I agree that our own energy has an affect on our dogs, I do find the focus on an owner's energy to be at times confusing or just plain useless when it comes to training dogs. In Cesar's Way owners are encouraged to imitate people like Cleopatra, John Wayne and Oprah. Huh? Now while some people out there might think they know what Millan ...
I got my first and only puppy when I was sixteen years old. She was a reddish brown fluff ball of eight weeks and I promptly was smitten. My mother did not allow dogs upstairs in our bedrooms so I moved into the basement to sleep with her. When I was not in school (and I admit to skipping classes so I could sneak home ...
My own scared dog Sunny was rescued from a 477 hoarding site discovered after the hurricanes in 2005. The owner of the site convinced rescue groups that she ran a sanctuary for dogs. She was so convincing that close to 200 dogs were sent to her. Other supposed 'rescuers' turned out to work with dog fighting rings or sold dogs to research labs. If you ...
I've been thinking about coming up with my own theory of why dogs do the things they do, and I've come up with one! I like it too. I figure since we'll never really know why dogs make some of the decisions they do, I'm pretty safe ranting on about it. I just might even be right. I'm going to call it, though ...
This image has been zipping around the internet connected to a group of other 'cute' pet pictures. The others, kittens shredding rolls of toilet paper, cats sleeping on dogs, and the like, do have their smile appeal, but this one!? Who is taking this picture? Mom? Dad? Grandma? Sure little Cindy Lou Who is happy, bless her heart she likes dogs, but the ...
I've been reading a lot of dog training books lately and many trainers provide readers with the reasons their method of training dogs works or makes sense. More often than not it has something to do with wolves, pack behavior, prey drive, alpha animals, etc. Statements are made about what dogs want or need. Most of them leave an owner struggling to sort out whether ...
I found a copy of one of William Koehler's training books in a local used bookstore. He was a trainer that worked in Hollywood, training dogs for films that I watched as a child. Had I known his training techniques then I probably would have cried before the dog got caught in a well or suffered some other fate that was geared to jerking the ...
In order to teach anyone, anything, you first have to get and keep their attention. This is as true for dogs as it is for people. It's not difficult to get the attention of a scared dog, most can't take their eyes off you. But that attention is based on knowing where you are, much the same way you'd probably like to know the whereabouts ...
It is not difficult for anyone who has raised a puppy to believe that there are behavioral traits that animals seem born with. While a ’shy gene’ has not been isolated, scientists continue to discover more about how our DNA affects not only our personality, but also our friends! A recent article in the online publication Health Day News for a Healthier Living ...
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