Posted on May 20, 2009 by thespiritdog
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 [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2009 by thespiritdog
Tell me where your dogs spot is.
A little trick you can use while attempting to relax your dog in those situations that make her a little to nervous is, find her happy spot. You know what I mean, the special spot on your dog that when you scratch or rub it she starts-a-kicken that leg [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2009 by thespiritdog
Having a happy go lucky dog that just loves every dog or person they meet is nice to have, but is not a prerequisite for proper dog ownership. Some dogs prefer to keep to themselves.
Depended on the degree of fear aggression or nervousness in a particular dog, some dogs the best you can hope for [...]
Filed under: The Mind Of a Dog, pets, dog behavior | Tagged: dog behavior, dog socialization, Dogs, emotional dogs, fear aggression, fear aggressive dogs, nervous aggression, socialize dogs, steven king | 4 Comments »
Posted on March 10, 2009 by thespiritdog
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 [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2009 by thespiritdog
Flooding a dog is an old technique that was used by Neanderthals to make a nervous dog give up. In a nut shell what flooding means is, the trainer would constantly harass the dog unmercifully until that animal accepts it’s fate of death (In their mind, anyway) and gives up. Or to put it another [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2009 by thespiritdog
You gotta love YouTube, here’s another video I saw sometime ago and recently found again, that’s important for you to see. Reading a dogs body language is nice if you can do it, but reading a dogs emotions is the key to stopping all unwanted behaviors.
The dogs emotion precedes the easily observable body language. When [...]
Filed under: The Mind Of a Dog, dog video | Tagged: dog aggression, dog bites, dog emotions, dogs behavior, dogs body language, fear aggression, K9 police dog, reading dogs | 10 Comments »
Posted on January 27, 2009 by thespiritdog
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 [...]
Filed under: The Mind Of a Dog | Tagged: abuse and fear aggression, aggressive dogs, dog aggression, fear aggression, nervous dogs | 3 Comments »
Posted on January 24, 2009 by thespiritdog
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 [...]
Filed under: The Mind Of a Dog | Tagged: aggressive dogs, alpha dogs, dog aggression, Dogs, dogs that bite, dominant dogs, fear aggression, golden retrievers | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 10, 2009 by thespiritdog
When people talk about dogs they had to put down. Usually the common thread when describing why the animal had these particular behavior problems are, bad breeding, some sort of abuse, or some kind of mental deficiency. Fortunately or unfortunately none of those reasons have any real bearing on the specific dogs behavior. Fear [...]
Filed under: Dog Breeds, Puppies, The Mind Of a Dog | Tagged: aggressive behavior, dog behavior, Dogs, dogs emotions, dogs mind, dogs that bite, fear aggression, understanding dogs fear aggression | 4 Comments »
Posted on January 4, 2009 by thespiritdog
The Most Nervous Breed of Dog is ….
I’ve been asked this question a bunch of times, and there is no real answer. A dogs propensity or lack of nervousness in a given situation, is really dependent on how well we socialized our dog and our own ability to understand the canine mind.
There are many contributing [...]
Filed under: Breaking our bad teachings, Puppies, pets, dog behavior | Tagged: dog socialization, Dogs, emotion of fear, fear aggression, nervous aggression, nervous dogs, pedigree dogs, Puppies, socializing dogs, The dogs mind | 13 Comments »
Posted on December 10, 2008 by thespiritdog
Why Do Dogs Pull On The Leash
Our dogs pull on the leash when we are taking them for a walk, for two very simple reasons.
1 -We walk to slow for dogs.
AND
2- They become so excited and happy to finally get out the house and see whats going on, that they can’t control themselves. Something [...]
Filed under: About Dog Trainers, Breaking our bad teachings, Dog Training Myths, The Mind Of a Dog | Tagged: Dog Training, Dog Training Myths, Dogs, dogs mount, dominance aggression, dominant dog behavior, dominant down dog training, fear aggression, is my dog a alpha, leash aggression, pulling on leash | 4 Comments »
Posted on December 6, 2008 by thespiritdog
Leash Aggression is Fear Aggression
This is another example of how we in the dog training behavior field make things a lot more difficult than they have to be, by assigning different “Types” of aggressions when describing unsocialized behavior.
That’s right a dog that is often said to be leash aggressive is, to put it very simply [...]
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