OnDogBehavior

The Anxious Dog

The types of common anxieties, their reasons, and how to approach the issues.

Rules for use, misuse, and avoidance. Always look both ways before going forward!

On Dog Parks, this examines a review, looking to separate sense from nonsense, against her calculated risk.

What we call dominant behavior, and how to understand and manage it.

Another of the commonly used magic phrases in describing dog behavior is territorial aggression. But what normally causes this in[…]

Over the past few decades much has changed in dog training, but not so much with people.

Taking the typical topics, and going further into them

The nature of early learning in puppies and exploring some of the typical advice given.

We call it protection, but the dog has a different goal here.

It was back in 2011 that I was working with some problem dogs at Watermelon Mountain Ranch (WMR), a private[…]