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  • Crazy dog at the door?  Trick or treat!

    Crazy dog at the door? Trick or treat!

    Hallowe’en comes every year.  If you have a dog that goes crazy at the door, Halloween is a nightmare.  At best you can hope to take your dog somewhere else where there are no tricker-treaters (good luck!).  Or perhaps you can hide out in your house with the house dark as if no one is…

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  • [VIDEO] Clicker training basics!

    If you are new to click training, you might want to check out our introduction to clicker training, what it is, why we use it and how it it is a fun and effective way to train dogs, but why it is particularly good in working with aggressive dogs. If you understand the principal of…

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  • Environmental Enrichment (Part 4) Exercise and Play

    Environmental Enrichment (Part 4) Exercise and Play

    This is part 4 in our Environmental Enrichment series.  Part 1 talked about why it is important for aggressive dogs.  Part 2 discussed how to implements it.  Part 3 provided 15 examples to get your creative juices going.  Here in part 4, we talk about the importance of exercise and play, but also about some of…

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  • 15 ways you can help your dog beat boredom (Part 3)

    15 ways you can help your dog beat boredom (Part 3)

    This is Part 3 of our Environmental Enrichment series where we give you 15 tips on how to mentally and sometimes physically stimulate your dog. Many of these suggestions involve food, since dogs would naturally spend a lot of time tracking down food in the wild.  For example, African wild dogs spend an average of 3 and a…

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  • Environmental Enrichment (Part 2) Implementation

    Environmental Enrichment (Part 2) Implementation

      This is part 2 of the environmental enrichment for dogs from our upcoming book on dog aggression.  Part 1 talked about why environmental enrichment is important in trerating aggression in dogs.  In part 2 we will talk about some of the ways you can implement this. To start, think about what dogs typically do.…

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  • Environmental Enrichment (Part 1) Introduction

    Environmental Enrichment (Part 1) Introduction

    This week we are going to focus on environmental enrichment from our upcoming book on dog aggression. Environmental enrichment is discussed when it comes to dogs in shelters, but we don’t often see it in regards to treating aggression. Part 1 will be on why Environmental Enrichment is important. Part 2 and part 3 will…

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  • Dog Language: 3 Signs You Should Pay Attention To

    Dog Language: 3 Signs You Should Pay Attention To

    Many people don’t know how to read the signs of stress in dogs.  And often, there are too many signs happening so quickly to even catch them all.  If you were to focus on only three signs, the following three might be the most easy to recognize. Licking lips It is amazing how often dog’s…

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