Foundational skills and maneuvers
I suppose this should have been earlier in my reactive dog series. Mea Culpa–my fault. I wanted to mention some foundational behaviors, important moves, and management techniques that I suggest...
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Cars for focus?
One thing that I was extremely remiss to talk about so far is car work (Ali Brown writes extensively about this). I like to use car work as foundational steps to generalizing behaviors and teaching...
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Tools for Reactivity
Again, my apologies for being totally out of order, but I just realized it may have been helpful to talk about the tools I suggest for working through reactivity. I do think there are some training...
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Cool, Calm and Collected “Why doesn’t he completely lose it when you are working him? I don’t understand. How does he know the difference, I only gave you the leash!” I heard this from a client quite...
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OMG.. ANOTHER DOG.. LOOK LOOK!!!!
Photo courtesy of Jamie and Risa! First of all, let me apologize.. my reactivity series has been absolutely all over the place! Out of order, poorly planned… just a bit of a mess. I’m putting them...
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STOP Treating Symptoms and Treat The Disease!
STOP Treating Symptoms and Treat The Disease! This past weekend I went to an all day seminar with a local holistic vet, Dr. Doug Knueven of Beaver Animal Clinic. I have not personally taken my dogs to...
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Resolving Window Reactivity pt 2
Resolving Window Reactivity pt 2 A little over a year ago, I posted about a home improvement project for reactive dogs using window clings to prevent dogs from barking at dogs they see through the...
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Counter Conditioning–Grooming Bandit Edition
Counter Conditioning–Grooming Bandit Edition About 6 months ago, our groomer of Bandit for the last 10 years retired (she’s also our neighbor). She has kept a barebones shop together so I (and a few...
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Aging Out Of The System–dog play
Aging Out Of The System–dog play “My dog used to love going to the dog park and playing with all the dogs. He was always fantastic and never had a problem with any of the dogs at the park. Recently...
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Trigger Stacking–”but he’s normally fine!”
Trigger Stacking–”but he’s normally fine!” Recently I found myself on a short road trip. During part of the trip I was driving on a bridge over a body of water. This particular road actually has two...
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Resource Guarding Between Pets–Triage and Treatment
Resource Guarding Between Pets–Triage and Treatment For those of you unfamiliar with Shayne’s history, she came to me with a food protocol from the humane society because of food aggression. She would...
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Having the meds talk with my vet
Having The Meds Talk With My Vet Last year I wrote a blog about the events at the vet, years ago, that have made my life with Shayne so much more challenging. In a total and complete nutshell, she had...
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Throwback Thursday–Social Pressures for Perfection…
Social Pressures for Perfection…throwback thursday Originally posted 8/28/12 Who would have thunk that peer pressure would have such a drastic effect on dogs. No, I’m not talking about dog-dog peer...
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The Power Of Classical Conditioning
The Power Of Classical Conditioning Over the years, one of the things I have heard over and over again from people use utilize aversive training tools like shock collars and prong collars is that their...
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Don’t Be REactive
Don’t Be REactive Who me? Don’t blame me, I didn’t do it! No, I’m not talking about your dog, I’m talking about YOU! If I could give students of any dog a handful of “words of wisdom,” this would...
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Counter Conditioning–Grooming Bandit Edition
Counter Conditioning–Grooming Bandit Edition About 6 months ago, our groomer of Bandit for the last 10 years retired (she’s also our neighbor). She has kept a barebones shop together so I (and a few...
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Aging Out Of The System–dog play
Aging Out Of The System–dog play “My dog used to love going to the dog park and playing with all the dogs. He was always fantastic and never had a problem with any of the dogs at the park. Recently...
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Trigger Stacking–“but he’s normally fine!”
Trigger Stacking–“but he’s normally fine!” Recently I found myself on a short road trip. During part of the trip I was driving on a bridge over a body of water. This particular road actually has two...
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Resource Guarding Between Pets–Triage and Treatment
Resource Guarding Between Pets–Triage and Treatment For those of you unfamiliar with Shayne’s history, she came to me with a food protocol from the humane society because of food aggression. She would...
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Having the meds talk with my vet
Having The Meds Talk With My Vet Last year I wrote a blog about the events at the vet, years ago, that have made my life with Shayne so much more challenging. In a total and complete nutshell, she had...
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