Do treats reward aggression?
This dog was about to be euthanized because he was aggressive to kids and dogs. See what happens when you blow in his face and watch what happens when he gets rewarded for this behavior in this video...
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Environmental Enrichment Week (Part 1) Introduction
This week we are going to focus on environmental enrichment from our upcoming book on dog aggression. Environmental enrichment is discussed when it comes to dogs in shelters, but we don’t often see it...
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15 ways you can help your dog beat boredom (Part 3)
It's a good idea to rotate your dog's toys regularly As part of our Environmental Enrichment series, here is part 3 includes 15 tips on how to mentally stimulate your dog. Part 1 talks about how...
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Environmental Enrichment (Part 4) Exercise and Play
Exercise will help behavior modification This is part 4 in our Environmental Enrichment series. Part 1 talked about why it is important for aggressive dogs. Part 2 discussed how to implements it....
View ArticleThe importance of getting your dog’s attention at the earliest stage of...
Owners of dogs that show some aggression often report how difficult it is to get their dog’s attention once they become fixated on their target. This creates a common complaint that desensitization and...
View ArticleThe World’s Worst Dog Aggression Advice
Everyone who has a dog seems to have an opinion on how to handle dog behavior problems and aggression is at the top of the list. Here is some of the worst advice for handing aggression in dogs that you...
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Training your aggressive dog to pay attention might help improve dog aggression
Training your aggressive dog to stop paying attention to something else and shift their to you will likely help to improve dog aggression. People with generalized social-phobia that have been trained...
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5 Harsh Realities of Treating Dog Aggression
Your dog needs you to help On the surface treating dog aggression – if not a simple fix – can at least appear to be relatively straightforward. Teach your dog to do something that is incompatible with...
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Dog training tip: training a dog that isn’t food motivated
This dog-training article about food motivation (see below) was written almost a year ago, and yet trainers still struggle with clients and others that insist their dogs are not food motivated (or...
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New Invention that Could Help Separation Anxiety?
Check out the iCPooch video below Video chat with your dog? There’s an app for that! Dogs are increasingly left alone for long periods of time as we go about our busy lives. This is particularly...
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5 TREATMENT METHODS TO AVOID IN DOG TRAINING
Unfortunately there are still many trainers using aversive methods to train dogs. Adverse methods are focused on the end behavior and ignore the emotional state of the dog. Not only is it unnecessary,...
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