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 aggressive behavior. How hard can that be? Well, after the initial cycle of excitement and enthusiasm, there is the inevitable wake-up call to reality… read more →
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 to pay attention to non-threatening positive material and ignore threatening material, showed significantly greater reductions in self-reported, behavioral, and physiological measures of anxiety than.. read more →
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 should avoid. Being dominant, being “pack leader”, “alpha”, “top dog”, etc.. Act like Cesar Milan.. read more →
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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 counter conditioning doesn’t work and misleads people into thinking that they can’t really improve aggression in their dogs. In reality their timing.. read more →
If you have problems stopping your dog from jumping up you are not alone! But it’s not always an easy problem to correct. We have some some strategies to make it easier. But before we get into how you can change your dog’s behavior, it helps to understand why they do it. Why do dogs jump up?.. read more →
From Virginia Broitman and Sherri Lippman’s The How of Bow Wow, this clear overview of clicker training gives you the basics in just one minute! read more →
Each time you expose a dog to the situations where he is likely to experience acute anxiety, he will get worse because he will start to feel anxious about the anxiety itself because anxiety is so aversive. For punishment to work – you need to expose the dog to the situation where he is going.. read more →
