The Point Of The Previous Behavior Post

The point of the previous behavior post, is, many dog owners are taught that eating before your dog or making them wait for their food is one of the many requirements for establishing yourself as your dogs alpha.
If you feel the need to train your dog to wait for his treats or food, that’s all [...]

Dogs Jumping Up, Dominance or Greeting ?

I think I mentioned somewhere before that a dog that jumps up on you, your family or friends is not trying to show dominance in any way, shape or form over humans. This is one of those myths that who knows how it got started, but unfortunately it did.
Because of this ill advised and inaccurate [...]

Cesar Millan The Dog Whisperer, Proof that this Guy’s a Putz

You just can’t make this stuff up.

Below is the time line of the dog whisperer, discussing everything that he was doing, and everything the dog was doing.
Listen in Cesar’s own voice as he proves just how little he knows about animal behavior and how to communicate with dogs.
link to video ( when you reach the [...]

Excited Dogs Will Fight or Bite

Happy dogs that live together can fight if they get too excited.
Some dogs when they get highly excited will start fighting with any other dog that happens to be in close proximity to them. This includes and is not limited to dogs in their pack and this is not a dominance issue, it’s a moron [...]

Fear Aggression

Fear Aggression in Dogs, a Quick Reminder

Remember fear aggression can be displayed in two main ways by your dog. Your dog can show fear or uncertainty in a given situation by being very quiet and still or by acting like a complete maniac. The complete maniac dog is routinely misdiagnosed as aggressiveness or dominance.
Often dogs [...]

Abusing Dogs Does Not Make Them Aggressive

For some reason and I don’t know exactly what it is, people think that former abuse in a dogs life makes them aggressive. Wait a minute that can’t be right, I know precisely the reason people think that, that’s what many experts in the behavior field tend to tell them.
There is not a whole lot [...]

Biting Aggression in Golden Retrievers

So what’s the deal ?
Are Golden Retrievers becoming more aggressive towards their human counterparts ?
Is there some sort of aberrant behavior thing going on due too inferior breeding practices ?
Have Golden’s finally lost their minds ?
Or is it something much more simpler ?
Here’s the scoop, poop or whatever else you like to call it. Golden [...]

Is It OK To Use a Shock Collar

For any trainer to vehemently appose the use of a shock collar as a tool for problem solving, shows just how little they know about the human mind. And after all the human mind is the one your trying to reach, not that dogs mind.
To think that every dog training client has the time, patience, [...]

Meet Some More Formerly Nervous or Fear Aggressive Spirit Dogs

Meet Some More Formerly Nervous Aggressive Spirit Dogs

Kayla with spirit dogs Bowsey Bow and Beatle Bailey

Both of these guys Bowsey Bow (dark color) and Beatle Bailey (off white color) have bit numerous people in their former lives. Beatle Beailey came to us from a Long Island family and Bowsey Bow came from a woman in [...]

How To Find a Dog Training Professional if you have an Aggressive or Biting Dog

Finding a Dog Training Professional
if you have an Aggressive or Biting Dog
If you are having any type of aggressive issues with your dog, you know “Biting”. Do not assume for one minute that you can call up any dog trainer or behaviorist, and get the help you and your dog needs.
And it doesn’t really matter [...]

Think Your Dog is Aggressive

Aggression Problems and Dog Trainer Fails
Just about every dog you see in these photos had varying degrees of animal aggression. If you know animals you know how easy it is to get a dog over their dog aggression problems.
Most of the former owners of these dogs, whether they were individual dog owners or animal rescue [...]

Dog Aggression or Unsocialized Dog

Dog Aggression or Unsocialized Dog
One way we can start helping out our dogs a little and help out our understanding of canine behaviors, is to change some of the words we use when describing a specific behavior.
One example of changing our terminology to reflect an more accurate assessment of an animals behavior is too stop [...]