The less said about Rajiv the better. I hv 2 dogs with very different behavioral patterns. I was going bonkers trying to manage them. I have completed 4 sessions today and im very happy with the progress. I can't say he is a trainer, he is more of somebody who deepens the bond betw...
Kathleen Crisley, is Fear-Free certified dog massage therapist and canine fitness trainer. She has a particular passion for working with dogs and their families to ensure injury prevention and quality of life. She specialises in working with anxious and emotionally damaged dogs. Her mobile practice,...
If your dog obsessively licks people—let alone other dogs—you may need to take them to a behavioral therapist. Photo by "Mike" Michael L. Baird, CC BY 2.0, on Wikimedia Commons/Photoscape More Information About Licking Why Dogs Sometimes Lick their Lips Excessively Why is your dog licking...
The question, then, is not whether dogs possess behavioral attributes that can be thought of as character. The important question is how psychologists should go about understanding these differences. For Skinner and the behaviorists, the answer was to focus on behavior and its antecedents, and not...
Sometimes zoomies occur when a dog is confused or slightly stressed; perhaps after a dog-training class where the skills and behavioral controls being worked on are a bit more challenging, you may suddenly be confronted by a dog zooming around the room. Should You Try to Stop a Zooming...
and we neglect it at our peril. Using their noses engages a dog’s brain in vital ways, and can prevent a raft of behavioral problems. Lots of interesting sniffing has been critical to keeping a just-turned, three-year old freight train of a Border Collie sane during his extreme...
When I mentioned that I wondered if I should get Duke a friend, the doggie physical therapist, who has a pack of her own, said, “Why? He seems perfectly happy.” Duke is free to roam the house all day. He is not destructive. He is quiet. He greets me calmly when I come come...
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and one of the long term side effects has been trading off one set of mental and emotional difficulties for another. Thank god for my doctor and her exemplary patient care ever since I cried in her office and confessed what a rough time I was having, and the magnificent therapist I finall...
(Why Does My Dog Act That Way). The data were based on ratings by 96 dog experts, who each contributed a long number of hours to rank dog breeds on five different behavioral dimensions. One of these dimensions wasIntelligence/Learning abilitywhich is a measure of how easily ...