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  • How to Improve Dog Barking – Creatively!

    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…

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  • 5 Harsh Realities of Treating Dog Aggression

    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.…

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  • Training your aggressive dog to pay attention might help improve dog aggression

    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…

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  • The World’s Worst Dog Aggression Advice

    The World’s Worst Dog Aggression Advice

    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…

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  • Managing dog aggression by using a head halter for an aggressive dog

    Managing dog aggression by using a head halter for an aggressive dog

    On this page: What is a Head Halter? Think of a head halter as a gentle bridle for your dog. It fits around their nose and behind their ears, connecting to the leash at the bottom. When your dog pulls, the halter redirects their head, making it harder to pull and easier for you to…

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  • The importance of getting your dog’s attention at the earliest stage of aggressive arousal.

    The importance of getting your dog’s attention at the earliest stage of aggressive arousal.

    We and our dogs are unable to pay full attention to more than one thing at a time. Outside of dogs that are aggressive toward their owners, it means that if you can hold your dogs attention, they will not be attention to whatever else he is becoming aggressive towards. Dogs that are not attending to the threats…

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  • How to stop a dog from jumping up

    How to stop a dog from jumping up

    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?…

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