The Socializing of Bella Bear

These dog photos, will show our normal routine for socializing new dogs here at the spirit dog sanctuary. Little Bella Bear the brindle terrier mix was pretty comfortable meeting some of our other dogs.  Even for the dogs that were described to us as having dog aggression problems, our introduction process is the same.
It’s ( [...]

Pit Bull Playing Gets Blamed For Dog Attack In Alabama

This is the same type of story, that I wrote an article about awhile ago.Your Dogs Safety, Phantom Dog bites and Children
The news story uses a rather sensational headline ” Dog Attacks Loxley Toddler”, as they should, it’s just business and they want people to read it. And yes I tried to do the same thing [...]

Why Cesar Millan The Dog Whisperers Approach Is Like Yelling At A Crying Baby

Cesar Millan The Dog Whisperer, only knows how to dominate a dog.

I had originally planned never to criticize Cesar, regardless of how often he gets it wrong. Awhile ago I was asked by an advertising company who was handling his latest video release, to write a review about it.  I was very generous with [...]

Dog Body Language, Playful and Not

Yet some more indisputable proof that a Wolf is nothing more than another breed of dog. I have said it before and I’ll say it again, no dogs come pre-domesticated, it is somebodies job in that household to teach domestication to your puppy dog. Regardless of what breed or type of dog it is.

Any dog [...]

Dogs Can’t Hide Their Emotions

Dogs Can’t Hide Their Emotions
This is very important to understand, Dogs are incapable of hiding their emotions. What ever they are feeling at that particular moment in time, you will be able to see in your dogs facial expressions, eyes and body language.
Just like human babies or toddlers cannot hide their emotions or feelings, it’s [...]

How To Wake Up Dogs That Bite When Sleeping

How To Wake Up Dogs That Bite
There are two spirit dog schools of thought, on the subject of waking up a dog that has the propensity to bite or snap at you if you disturb them while they are sleeping.
School of thought # 1; Leave the dog alone and stop bothering him when he’s sleeping. [...]

Dog Bite’s Don’t Come Out Of The Blue

Dog Bites Don’t Come Out Of The Blue
This is something that every dog trainer or behaviorist has heard about a million times, “The dog bite came out of nowhere”. And if they are any good at all at their job, they will know that the clients description of  “there was no warning” is just really [...]

Your Dogs Safety, Phantom Dog bites and Children

The phantom dog bite commonly is the result of a playful dog, that jumps up on a child or gets so excited that he scratches the child with his paw. It’s possible in both instances for child to say, “mommy the dog bit me”.

Make a nervous dog happy through playing

This technique is how I mentally rehabilitate, every single dog that comes into Spirit Animal sanctuary. This is not rocket science folks. Just get them happy by playing with them, they have lived a nervous and fearful life long enough.

Dog Behavior Modification, How Long Does It Take

Let me try to explain that a little differently. You can have ten people watching the same dog do something, and you will get different descriptions on what they saw. Not everybody sees the same thing.

From nervous dog to happy dog, body language photos

It’s all about learning how to communicate with our dogs, and you being comfortable enough with a nervous dog to be able to relax them.

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My Dog is Stubborn, Why ?

Solving dog behavior problems, depends on our ability to communicate with dogs.