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How anxiety relates to dog aggression and why we need to treat it
While you may think your dog is aggressive because of the neighbour’s black dog or the guy wearing that crazy hat, it is now believed by the scientific community that anxiety or uncertainty underlies most dog aggression (1). That anxiety or uncertainty in dogs underlies dog aggression is not immediately obvious. As a result it…
Secrets to getting your Significant Other on board with your dog training
What to do when your Significant Others sabotages your dog training. If there was a single reason for me recommending to try this technique from Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything–Fast (#commissonearned) it’s this: it works on my kids. Freakishly well.  Even when they know what I’m doing. It can even work on yourself.…
Dog training tip: training a dog that isn’t food motivated
This dog-training article about food motivation (see below) was written originally some time ago, and yet trainers still struggle with clients and others that insist their dogs are not food motivated (or worse – using food for training leads to euthanasia – yikes!) If you are new to training, you might be confused about who’s…
What you may not know about rewarding a dog’s fear or aggression
Can treats reinforce a dog’s fear or aggression? A recent blog comment sparked an interesting question in response to our article, 5 Harsh Realities of Treating Dog Aggression, which we thought was worth a blog post. The question came after a statement that treats can’t reinforce (strengthen or cause it to repeat) fear. The poster…
How to Improve Dog Barking – Creatively!
Barking can be a big problem for people because it annoys the heck out of other people. This causes social conflict. There are different ways to tackle the problem of barking – and this does not even include punishment. But have you thought about why your dog is barking? This article on dog barking on…
5 Harsh Realities of Treating Dog Aggression
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.…
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 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…