Lighten Up Dog Training (2026)

24/12/2025

Thanks to everyone for your support in 2025 🤶

23/12/2025

TW: discusses the use of shock and punishment on dogs and other animal welfare abuses in the UK.

Well, it's been a fun day in Social Media Land.

Yesterday, the UK government shared their vision for improved animal welfare. Most of it relates to consultations they plan on doing for laws they may or may not introduce as a result.

The use of shock collars is one of the things going back out (yet again... same circus, different clowns) for consultation.

And oh my word...

"Won't somebody think of the sheep?"

That was my interpretation of one comment I read.

Apparently, banning shock collars will be like Apocalypse Now for UK sheep.

All the dogs who are currently controlled only by a shock collar will now take to the countryside on an epic killing spree. I'm guessing it'll only be relevant for them, because all the people who just let their dogs harass and kill sheep without a shock collar are already doing it anyway, though the government plans to introduce some measures to prevent that. Not sure on the policing aspect of it, but hey.

Not so much an 'educative' tool then if the dog's not learned not to do it without the threat, though?

I'm LOVING the comments from shock collar apologists and users that they only use it with serious predation.

"Won't somebody think of the difficult dogs!"

I think they need someone to hold their hand and explain that there's no shock strong enough to prevent serious predation. I once seized a dog from a guy who'd tasered his dog repeatedly to 'out' a bite and that was just a bit of a lark in protection 'sports' training. I've worked with huskies who think nothing of breaking out through fences powered by leisure batteries to get at next door's chickens.

If they think shock works, they're no doubt using it on dogs who could be dissuaded with other measures. Easily trained dogs, in fact.

"Won't somebody think of my living?"

One trainer said they're going to leave the country. A bit extreme. I hope they don't pick one of those increasingly numerous countries where shock collars for dogs are already banned.

"Won't somebody think of the beagles!"

In the best case of whataboutery I've ever seen, someone was moaning that it's not fine to ban shock collars if beagles are still used in test labs. I mean, I don't know about you, Janet, but one of the first species of animal the impact of shock on behaviour was tested on was the dog. I appreciate the energy of the sentiment, but it's possible to improve laboratory conditions for animals (or abolish many experiments) AND ban shock collars.

"Won't somebody please think of people with disabilities?!"

Because patronising people with disabilities by suggesting they're the reason for perpetuating harms on dogs is an absolutely wonderful viewpoint. Thanks for championing us. Suffice to say some of the best trainers I know are those with disabilities.

"Won't somebody please think of the women!"

Because patronising women and suggesting that we're the reason the UK *needs* shock collars is another wonderful viewpoint. Thanks once again for championing us without us having asked for it. As a woman who has lived with a number of big dogs, I could tell you how one of those enormous dog fellows taught me perfectly to walk to heel without pulling on his lead. If you don't know how to do it, why not ask one of those little women out there with their 50kg dogs how they managed to do it without ever using aversive tools?

"This government is a Nanny State!"

Yeah, Nancy. How very dare they spoil your fun by outlawing methods that are routinely used in laboratories to replicate PTSD, chronic and acute stress, generalised anxiety and maladaptive fear in animal models!

I'm so sick of that interfering government spoiling my plans for a Sunday night!

Oh, and apparently, I'm not supposed to call it a shock collar - even though that's what it is and it's how it works - because it's triggering for those who use them on dogs 😬

Anyway... In other news, the countries where they have improved animal welfare and they have removed shock collars from sale (along with other aversive devices) and made it possible to prosecute those who use them for harming animals... they'd like to let you know that most of these bad things never happened.

Sure, some people lost their income.

Others lost a way of legally harming others and had to find new ways to practise their sa**sm.

No welfare detriments have been noted in countries where dogs must wear a lead around livestock, no matter what kind of dog they are or what work they do. Keeping a dog on a lead remains the single most effective way to prevent the harassment and death of livestock. In some countries, it's a legal requirement. I know! Won't somebody think of the dogs?!

And you know what else happened?

A lot of skilling up.

IDK but if I had to rely on aversives because I wasn't smart enough with my big old human brain to think of more creative, less harmful and less unpredictable solutions, I wouldn't want to publicise that?!

In any case, I'm sure it's yet another storm in a teacup. I really hope the UK government does not capitulate in this case. It's sad to see them not tackling other dog-related issues such as greyhound racing, although devolved powers are doing so. Australia remains the biggest global perpetrator of greyhound racing anyway. Hopefully new legislation will continue to bring the UK closer to more enlightened welfare views.

It's great to see the current government making provisions to end trail hunting. Yet again, anyone who bleats out "won't somebody think of the dogs?!" hysteria needs to go and work a single day as a welfare officer inspecting hunting packs. You'd not get past 09.30am without finding at least ten welfare abuses. The starvation and ex*****on of male hunt dogs and the breeding exploitation of female hunt dogs is a welfare crime that's been waiting for some government brave enough to tackle the elites who practise these activities. As someone who knows and loves scenthounds, I can tell you there are many ways you could improve their lives as a population of animals, but keeping live hunting and trail hunting in play is not one of them. Giving them a couch, some friends, some food and a warm fire would be a fine start in improving their welfare.

All this to say nothing of the benefits of such measures as keeping dogs on lead around sheep, banning aversive tools and banning trail hunting... And those benefits are manifold. That's the reason these measures are either being passed into law or they're being consulted upon.

Thanks as always to Kate for planting this voice in my head whenever someone bleats hypocritically about things that are actually progressive!

19/12/2025

Fancy a freebie?

We've been thinking about behaviours that we'd like just a little less of from our canine companions these last few days.

I remember my early days with Lidy in the shelter... the contact lenses she boofed out of my actual eyes... the time she gave me a bloody nose... the kidney punches as she used me as a springboard...

And who can really blame her?

She was a young dog living in the shelter spending most of her day without much human interaction.

Now I know I'm absolutely bloody marvellous and I'm very surprised people don't headbutt me, kiss me so vociferously that I get a nose bleed or squeeze me so tight that my liver takes a pounding, but I also know I'd rather not have these daily assaults just because I'm glorious company.

Oh, and PS you absolutely know this wasn't about me. She's this exuberant with all of her friends...

Or she was...

I didn't have to wait until she was out of the shelter to get less harmful greetings.

Nor did I have to wait until she'd worked through all her frustration.

Though it did get better when she wasn't spending 23 hours a day without her human friends.

Now, Lidy can't be coaxed into kidney punches, headbutting or nose bopping. She just leans on people's legs to say hi. Not too hard. Just like the nice girl she is.

Solving behaviours that we'd just like to be a little more dainty, a little less injurious or a little less noisy doesn't mean we have to resort to pet correctors, sprays, corrections, force or shock. In fact, these ways are likely to fail anyway because they don't meet the need that's driving the behaviour.

If you really want behaviour change that lasts, this video is for you!

🐶 Good for manic greetings

🐶 Good for dogs who bark to get your attention

🐶 Good for dogs who've developed some creative (if costly) ways to resolve a problem that they're having.

You know the link is in the first comment. Silly FB.

PS I'll be putting out lots of new video content in 2026 so feel free to subscribe over on the other place.

18/12/2025

THE SURPRISING REASON WHY YOUR SENIOR DOG MIGHT BE ASKING FOR MORE OF YOUR TIME

Yesterday, I shared a few ideas to help those of you who've got a dog who lets you know they need you in ways that can sometimes be challenging to live with.

I also said there are some dogs who wouldn't benefit from those approaches.

Dogs who have experienced traumatic events or who faced social deprivation in the first few months of life were two types of dog where we need to be a little more mindful of how we help them cope better when we're not able to interact with them even though we're in the same physical space.

Puppies and adolescents also need more thoughtful approaches to how we help them when we just want to chill on the sofa, work from home, go to the toilet in peace (heaven forfend!) or chat to our friends. I've distinct memories of having to play tug with one arm under the table on video calls when my dog Heston was young!

The third group of dogs who need us to do some other investigation first are seniors. Any kind of change in behaviour in senior dogs is something we should pay mind to. I have other memories of a tiny little Yorkie who was in emergency foster with me after being surrendered to the shelter who did a lot of barking at me. No wonder, because his prostate was enormous! Surgery reduced much of that 'attention seeking' behaviour.

But not all seniors have the kind of health issues that leave them restless and a little more in need of social support than usual. For some older dogs, it may be worth a chat with a vet or a behaviourist about canine cognitive decline. A behaviourist will be able to help you document behavioural changes so that you can take these to the vet so they are fully informed about any kind of support that could help in the twilight years.

Increased anxiety and restlessness are two behaviours we might expect with a senior dog who is struggling with cognitive decline.

The dog in the photo is Amigo, my delicious rescue from some years back. Around 2016, he started to go through some behavioural changes, including pawing at me more, seeking me out more, nudging me more and generally just a little bit more 'clingy' than he'd been in the three years before. He'd had an ear infection and a seizure, but once these cleared up, he was not the same dog he had been in terms of his independence.

He was definitely much less restful.

He also started telling me things at times of the day that no longer correlated with what normally happened. He'd tell me it was time for bed right after dinner (I know how he felt!) and he'd wake up at 3am and tell me it was time for breakfast or a p*e or a walk. In fact, we'd go out for a walk later in the day and he'd tell me half an hour later that it was time for a walk again.

Altered sleep and rest patterns, an inability to sleep, disorientation, confusion and mental absences are definitely signs that might accompany the kind of behaviours dogs might use to get our attention where we should make time to book a vet appointment for a check up.

Although there might be little vets can do, there are medications available that can help slow the pace of cognitive decline in some cases. There are also nutraceuticals that may help. Sometimes those might address accompanying or underlying health issues, and other times, they may help with blood flow and blood oxygenation.

These can all help get oxygenated blood to the brain.

What can we do with dogs who are asking for us more and more in seniority?

🐶 Notice it, and take steps to manage absences if they're also struggling with that too. Age-related anxieties play out a little differently, but addressing anxiety with appropriate vet support can help.

🐶 See a vet and have a good check-up so that all health concerns are managed as best they can be.

🐶 Create structures and routines that help regulate circadian rhythms by getting daylight and exercise.

🐶 Include appropriate mental and social enrichment to push back against loss of physical health.

🐶 Recognise it and enjoy it as our relationship changes with our dogs, knowing we get to support them in their twilight years.

It can be challenging to deal with your own exhaustion and frustration if you live alone and you have a senior dog experiencing cognitive decline. It's also really important to have social support for yourself too.

Being woken up at 3am by a dog telling you that not only is it time to get up, but they'd also like breakfast, love and a walk all right now, and they're also uncomfortable and distressed... that's not always easy even if you don't have to work.

Caring for dogs in the twilight years is a privilege, but curated stories of how wonderful it is from social media don't always help.

There are times we're enmeshed in anticipatory grief and bone-deep exhaustion as well as in piles of laundry from weaker bladders and bowels.

No wonder that sometimes the last thing we want to do is sit down with them for a half hour petting session on demand when we're in need of a little nurture ourselves!

For any of us who've cared for elderly parents or relatives, I'm sure we know that it's not some instagrammable moment 24/7. There can be a lot of frustration on both sides of the relationship, a lot of grief there too from our side, and the sadness of wanting to get things right.

It's the same with dogs.

Sure, it's great seeing older dogs living out our bucket lists for them, but trying to do that with a dog struggling with cognitive and physical decline isn't always the rosy picture others might paint.

Even so, it's also a time to enjoy those moments where we get them and to take life easy for a while. I know I did a lot of reading, and got through a lot of TV and audiobooks with Amigo squished in next to me in his final months - and I don't regret a single moment of those extra requests he made of my time. If anything, I just wish I'd been able to give him more. Not easy when you've got other dogs, a job and a life, I know!

If you've got a senior dog who is asking for more of your time, sometimes in ways that feel - well - kind of rude, know you're not alone. I hope these words give you a little comfort.

17/12/2025

Got a dog who knows exactly how to get your attention, but you're really struggling with how they're doing it?

You know... the dog whose stare and bark are guaranteed to get your attention...

Often, these dogs are seen as demanding. Their barking is 'attention seeking' and we're told to ignore it and wait it out. I'll be sharing a video tomorrow about why waiting it out is a really bad idea, but if you're reading this, you already know that your dog's persistence is more than your ability to ignore them.

I'll be sharing some more content to help you with this as I know it's something that many people struggle with.

One thing we should always be aware of is that these tips are not appropriate for dogs with cognitive decline - doggie dementia if you will - or with a history of deprivation, neglect or trauma. I'll share some other ideas there over the next few days.

I start with a little attention seeker of my own: Amigo. He certainly knew how to get my attention in ways I struggled with.

His wasn't a bark for my interaction, though. It was a mighty swipe on my milkbottle legs with his enormous paw & claws.

So what can we do?

🐶 Enter into a period of super-abundance. This is important for all the other steps, which is why it's first. Give the dog exactly what they want interaction-wise. Let them fill their boots. Put aside a day where you can dedicate yourself to them completely. No screens. No TV. By all means, have an audiobook or podcasts to listen to, but your eyes and hands and attention are theirs. Make sure their needs are met, and know what it is they really want. Amigo often wanted comfort and to sit next to me. That was fine for me because I'm really lazy. Sometimes he wanted to play though, and that's fine. Super-abundance means we meet ALL their needs.

🐶 Let them reach boredom point. Even my lovebug Lidy will absolutely get up and go off onto her own couch. TOO much petting. Heston used to put himself to bed. TOO much human talking! Watch for them disengaging and make a note of what they do. This is often a preferred behaviour (like going off and sitting on their own bed) that we can tap in to later. Make a note of how long it takes for them to get sick of having you on tap. It happens!

🐶 Share the burden. Get other people in to indulge them. Hire a pet sitter to help for the day. Get friends round. Find yourself some neighbourly support from someone who'd love to have dogs but doesn't have the time or the space or the money. Or if they're dog social, engage in a little social time with other people's dogs. This is a social need, but you're not the only person on the planet.

🐶 Reduce anxiety. Often, dogs who want to interact with us a lot (and I know we're all sensitive to their needs - it's not like we're working 8-6 and then coming back to watch a couple of hours of telly and go to bed) those dogs who need our interaction and attention can be relying on us for social support, for safety, to escape from boredom. We need to find some other ways to help them out with that. Fill their time with lovely dog stuff and, if necessary, get some herbal or veterinary support.

🐶 Provide consolation prizes. So if you're not available, are there other things to do to occupy them? Other things to do that are interesting? Amigo had ZERO interest in me when his friends were round. I was the consolation prize! But chews, good bones, digging a hole, working on a dismantling problem, having a half-hour of free work, these are all ways that we can provide some consolation prizes for the times we can't be available. Don't leave them with a vacuum because that just makes your absence or attention being elsewhere even tougher.

🐶Teach an alternative. I taught Amigo a chin rest on my knee. That was so much better than him clawing me with his giant, unwieldy paw. Lidy has a nose nudge. All of these were valid ways to get my attention, and I always oblige by noticing them. If we teach an alternative, we can't run out on paying up, so you have to be prepared to indulge the request. You may also want to make sure the reward for this behaviour is always interaction, and you'll sometimes need to encourage it - just before barking or pawing starts.

🐶 Reward low rates of behaviour. Why do we always wait until the biggest bark or the biggest claw? Track the request back to the first, quietest, simplest behaviour (Amigo would kind of hang about looking at me, and Lidy does the same) and reward that every time with whatever interaction they want. Instead of shaping bigger and more dramatic behaviours, reward the smaller ones.

🐶 Get rest schedules. Some of the problem is that dogs don't want to rest when we don't want to engage with them. It's a clash of timetables. Helping sync those up can really help. Full tummies, walks in the bag, played out, blankets down, soothing music on, audiobook playing, lavender tea out and we're all ready to rest rather than engage with each other.

🐶 Finally - and only then, you might want to work with someone to help you create a 'non-availability' cue that says 'not now.' Most of our dogs learn this naturally. For instance, when I'm working, Lidy just gets on the couch and naps. My back and the sound of my clicky fingers or me on a zoom call are 'non-availability cues' that say interactions won't be very productive. Some dogs benefit from clearing up this non-availability. One of my clients now puts down a door step. Another puts a mat down for the dog. One puts down a tea cosy on the floor.

When this is paired up with super-abundance beforehand and all the other steps, especially making sure there are other things for the dog to do, it doesn't take long for the dog to realise that the tea cosy going down on to the floor means you're simply not available even though you're in the room.

Mostly, we do indulge the dog's request with an alternative behaviour, though that tells us we've asked a bit too much in that session.

I'll be sharing some extra resources over the next few days on some of these steps if they don't seem clear or you're not sure what they'd look like in your life.

There are also some other tips and tricks that work with adolescent dogs or seniors with cognitive decline.

15/12/2025

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What kind of content would really help you with your dogs right now?

12/12/2025

HARD-WIRED TO AVOID BLACK DOTS?!!

Yesterday, I shared a plastic garden owl who has been causing some very suspicious behaviour around my neighbourhood...

Want to know why?

Many of the dogs I work with who are anxious or fearful around unfamiliar humans are scared of one particular thing: direct eye contact.

Everything's kind of okay as long as nobody looks at each other.

One dog I worked with recently was having problems with guests. There was a lot of woo-wooing at the door and lots of alarm barking. His hackles were up and he was really unhappy about people coming in. Although it was all sound and fury, he really struggled to move away or settle down. If guests sat down, he'd keep them under his beady watch until one of two things happened: they moved, or they looked at him.

Then the alarm barking would start again.

Although most dogs learn early in life that humans do not seem to respect the natural codes when it comes to looking and they get used to our often very rude and lawless gaze, this isn't always true. It's especially problematic the dog didn't meet many strangers early in development, particularly from 3-8 weeks.

Early exposure tends to work very well preventatively. This is not to say we should eyeball our young pups and give them the old Clint Eastwood, but if they meet a fair few humans and they get used to our very poor and whimsical code of conduct around staring and looking, they'll probably realise we mean no harm.

But why are animals born with an innate fear of being looked at?

In fact, fear of two staring eyes is a widespread fear in the animal world.

Following on from some early work with eight species of birds, researchers had been quick to identify the fact that many animal species will avoid two black circles placed in proximity to one another, not unlike in the image.

That's all you need.

Two black circles. You can see why certain butterflies and moths would have developed circular shapes as part of their adaptations to avoid being eaten for lunch.

Eyes are highly salient. They're easy to pick out. They catch our attention.

That moment they catch our attention causes us to appraise the threat, triggering a concern that in turn generates avoidance behaviour.

Duck or human, your subconscious brain is paying attention.

You don't even need to be a social species to fear those circles. If something out there might eat you, being perceived by the big eyes of a predator is probably a really sensible thing to avoid.

Steer clear of the eye-like circles.

But if you also need to fit into a social group, eyeballing each other can also be seen as a social threat.

We tend to forget this outside of hard-eyed heavily neuronormative Western cultures, but direct gaze can be an enormous social threat that we share with the birds and with other mammals.

Eyes give animals such rich information.

PS if you think you're fine at giving the hard-eyed gaze, please remember that all you have to do to make humans act more honestly and appropriately than they would normally is stick a pair of eyes up on a wall. Sure, they'll probably go off and misbehave elsewhere, but if you don't want them to steal your muffins, pencils or bikes, or you want them to make bigger donations to your honesty box, stick up some eyes and they might go elsewhere to rob a snack or cheat someone else out of a few pennies.

The eyes are watching you.

Perceived surveillance has a strong impact on our feelings, our emotions and the decisions we make. People abide by the laws and are more altruistic even when there are cartoon eyes watching. We do so even without thinking or consciously appraising the eyes.

Crazy, hey?

No different for our dogs, though.

It's why, when asking clients about their dogs, I want to know if their dog stops and stares, or whether they respond negatively to being stared at, by dogs or by humans.

The 'Watching Eyes' effect hits you whether or not you know it. You don't even need to be conscious that you're being watched.

That's just reminded me that a friend of mine has the ick over googly plastic eyes. In the town where she lives, some joker keeps sticking googly eyes on monuments and post-boxes, and she keeps removing them. Every Christmas, I send her a card with two small googly eyes stuck on, because that's the kind of awful friend I am. I'm not sure it's something she ever really thought about, why a moving black plastic counter in a larger white-backed case would give us the creeps, but we humans are no exception to the hard-wired fear of being perceived.

So if you notice that your dog feels uncomfortable with eye contact or with gaze pressure, please know they're not alone. Although most dogs cope admirably with our thoughtless human staring, it does not mean they all should or will find our eye contact to be quite so inoffensive as we mean it to be.

PS: if you're thinking of eyeballing your dog à la Cesar Millan to "help them get used to it" or some other reason, please don't. I know a guy who lost part of his nose eyeballing a dog to 'make the dog submit'.

We shouldn't ever rely on getting a bit of woo-woo alarm barking as the least bad thing a dog could do to us.

References:

Bateson, M., Nettle, D., & Roberts, G. (2006). Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting. Biology letters, 2(3), 412-414.

Dear, K., Dutton, K., & Fox, E. (2019). Do ‘watching eyes’ influence antisocial behavior? A systematic review & meta-analysis. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(3), 269-280.

Schaller, G. B., & Emlen Jr, J. T. (1962). The ontogeny of avoidance behaviour in some precocial birds. Animal Behaviour, 10(3-4), 370-381.

11/12/2025

25 things I learned in 2025... #3

How our dogs respond to novelty tells us SO much.

I'm just fresh from watching a clip of two golden retrievers barking at discarded coat on a bollard, so it's very fresh in my mind.

How our dogs typically respond to things that are unusual, unexpected or out of place can tell us so much - as can the things themselves.

This is Owl.

Owl's job is to terrify the recalcitrant crow who roams the neighbourhood every morning pulling windscreen wipers off cars, attacking windows and generally making a nuisance of himself.

After my neighbours got wise to the fact they need a deterrent rather than to blame each other for having caused such a menace, lots of owls and eagles made an appearance around our homes.

I don't want to comment on their usefulness in terms of reducing windscreen-wiper-related destruction.

I want to talk about this bad boy sitting on a rock and how all the neighbourhood dogs have responded to him.

So... I first noticed him when my dog Lidy noticed him. She's good at noticing things like that. We only walk past this rock four times a day on this specific stretch of road, so she'll often tell me that something has changed.

If there's ever a human-canine version of that memory game with trays where you have to say what's different after you looked at a tray for a minute and some spiteful person changed stuff, I want a Lidy on my team. Or one of those golden retrievers. Oh, and I just saw a horse freaking out about a rabbit, so I know it's not just dogs!

I reckon those animal individuals will be better at it than most humans.

"Something is Different Today..."

Lidy is 100% a high responder. Not only does she notice novelty, she's on it like a car bonnet. It incentivises her to move in.

Should said novelty do anything untoward when she is up close and personal in its space, she will inevitably freak out and try to bite it. If In Doubt, Bite First. Ask Questions Later.

Back in 1996, that's what Françoise Dellu-Hagedorn and colleagues noticed about a rodent population they were working with. Some were high responders, incentivised to move in towards novelty. Others hesitated and froze, or moved to safety and took their sweet time investigating.

Of course, if you're a high responder, you're likely to catch that metaphorical early worm. You're going to get the goodies before anyone else does. But you're also likely to get your face eaten off if it turns out to be a crocodile rather than a yule log that someone dropped. The swings and roundabouts of having a bold phenotype.

And if you're pessimistic and hesitant in nature, you avoid getting your face eaten off by crocodiles, but you also miss out on life's discarded yule logs.

In recent research, a team of canine researchers in Morocco observed how free-ranging dogs behaved around novel objects and noted that those interested in the object explored more and had larger ranges than those who did not.

There's a correlation between exploratory behaviour, optimism, curiousity and how you respond to novelty.

This does not mean that those dogs (and other species) who avoid novelty don't notice it. Often, putting a novel item in their habitat is really disruptive to behaviour until the animals habituate to it.

So I wanted to know how dogs responded to the owl because I thought it would be bloody good citizen science, and several of my neighbours have dogs I've worked with.

One of my neighbours let me put up a trail camera at dog height on their garden fence, and I got some great responses.

Lidy was by far the boldest. Her approach time was minimal.

Loads of the dogs moved out of the owl's way (find out why in tomorrow's post!) and avoided the owl completely.

Two of the dogs stopped and refused to go any further. One was put off her walk completely by the owl.

And a bunch more simply checked it out casually.

Lidy's closest rival for sp*ed of approach was Lemmy, a labrador I've been working with. He went in quick, slammed the brakes on with some very typical head bobbing and end-stage caution. Then he barked at it. Then, when it didn't respond, he cocked a leg and p*ed on it.

It said much! Not sure *what* it said, but Lemmy clearly had opinions about that owl!

I am ALWAYS curious about how dogs respond to novel items given their history and development. It's so informative. It tells me a lot about the kind of approach I might need as well to help anxious or fearful dogs reevaluate their world safely, and how to help the high responders of the world regulate better. Sometimes there are crocodiles, and it's better to keep a bit of distance instead of getting your face bitten off.

I could base a lot of my interventions simply on the back of this one test.

It changes everything, knowing how dogs respond, especially to items that have threatening qualities or seem out of place.

If your dog saw this owl just sitting all nonchalant on a rock, what do you think they'd do?

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