Twitter/ K9aggressionPeople are still trying to make sense over whether to deal with aggressive dogs with all positive means, or whether to correct, correct, correct. Both camps can say that the other method will make the dog worse.
The only real progress you will ever make with clicking to calm is if you are clicking when [...]
What I wish credible trainers, behaviorists and veterinary behaviorists would make public are photographs and videotape of dog behavior with clear identification and make it available to the average dog owner. I don’t mean training videos, but behavior: images of dogs who are anxious and relaxed; normal and not normal dogs within [...]
Dogs are better than monkeys when it comes to reading our social cues to find hidden food and according to this “study, are “unusually skilled as reading human social and communicative behavior”.
Yet in a study with selectively bred foxes who were not selected for this skill, but bred to not be fearful of humans, the [...]