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...
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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...
Puppy Development and Of Course the Science!
Nothing is quite as adorable as a puppy, right? Maybe a kitten? That's an age old debate of dogs vs cats, we don't want to get into that...
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 II
I spend a lot of time explaining why communication is paramount to effective behavioral modification. The reason I spend the time...
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...
