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Increasing Your Family by Four Paws: What’s Next? Bringing a new dog into your familyHow exciting!
Bringing a new dog into your family How exciting! You have made a lifetime commitment to care and provide for a dog. They are part of...


Creating a Zen Den, What Does that Mean?
Let's discuss crate training, or what I have coined making a "Zen Den." Before we get to the how of making crate training as positive as...


Reactive Dog-Park Reviews: A Guide For You and Your Dog
For about a year now, we have been visiting local DFW, Texas parks and reviewing them with a reactive dog in mind. Reactive dogs are some...


Canine Enrichment: Why Your Dog Shouldn’t Live Without It!
Behavioral work has come along way in its application, philosophy and implementation. But I do not think we have addressed a dog's...


Predictability: The Why, How and Implementation
Any behavioral problem, has at its root, confounding variables. Genetics, learning histories, perceptions, behavioral follow-through, the...


Why Decompression Alone Isn’t Enough
Decompression is a buzzword that is used with almost all fosters, adoptions, and rescue organizations now as standard protocol for...


Leave-Its, Impulse Control and Dog Brains
I almost always include what I consider to be the solid foundational cues in my behavioral work, also known as, the doggy ABC's. On that...


What’s With All The Jargon? Part I
I talk all the time with my human clients about being an effective communicator, using treats (reinforcement) as translators to the human...


The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Dog Fights
As a rescuer, as a foster dog mom, as a multi-household dog mom, as a professional behavioral specialist, and as a dog lover, this topic...


Reclaim Your Backyard
When we share our homes with our dogs there are inevitable issues that arise. One of the most common experiences I discuss with clients...


Bringing A New Dog Into Your Family
How exciting! You have made the lifetime commitment to care and provide for a dog. They are part of your family now, except you didn't...
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