? ??’? ? ?????? ??? ????? ?? ?????? ?????. ⚠️ Attention is a commodity, and you have a kazillion dog trainers out there vying to get your eyes on their content. ? There has never been more access to information, for better or worse…and it can be a rough ride for those interested […]
Avoiding Serious Behavioural Issues In Your Dog
? ??????? ??????????? ???????? ???’? ???? ?? ???? ?????? ??? ?? ???????*. ⚠️ It most certainly is true though that dog owners feel taken by surprise when they finally notice them. ? That these issues don’t just appear with a vengeance one Wednesday mornings then means that they’ve developed over […]
Zak George: What’s The Story? My Simple Explantion (AVSAB Position Statement)
? These situations can be more than a little tricky for folks to follow – especially for those interested folks on the periphery of the dog world that are less technically oriented. ? This is my attempt to give a plain language explanation these folks would find easy to follow – assuming they’re […]
Expect Less From Your Puppy And More From Your Adult Dog
⚠️ PRETTY PLEASE PUPPY PEEPS… ⠀ ? I need y’all to do me a solid: ⠀ ⛔️ Stop expecting 3, 4, 5mo puppies to do extended ‘stays’; ⠀ ✅ Consider that learning specific skills is far, far less important than developing a strong desire in your pup to work with you – it’s all about […]
Puppies And COVID-19 Lockdown – 7 Steps To Action Now
It’s a fact that dogs that haven’t had sufficient positive and neutral exposures to the world around them – the world they have to live and function in as adults – have a much greater chance of developing behavioural issues later in life. Making up for lost time isn’t really a ‘thing’ when […]
Enjoying a moment together with Snap and Kana
? Man it’s cold in Melbourne today. ? I had to swing past the office this morning and knock out some emails, as well as finish a couple of reports. ? I threw the heater on, but I knew from the way the dogs cuddled up closely on the couch that it wasn’t doing too […]
Anxiety in dogs cannot be ‘trained away’
? It’s a hard pill for some folks to swallow, but it’s 100% true. ? If you punish the very behaviours that allow you to infer the dog is feeling anxious in the first place, then using the absence of that behaviour in that context as a basis to claim that the dog is no […]
Your dog training may not work for the reason you think it does
? Congratulations – you’ve produced a training outcome with your dog that you’re happy with. ? The truth is that for the most part, most dogs will learn basic things pretty well in most training programs. ? After all, the ability of the dog to adapt and learn in the human world is perhaps the main […]