Friend to the Furry

09/10/2020

The old, obedience-driven model directed at show dogs is out. A new, more relationship-based approach aimed at companion dogs is in.

06/06/2020

05/18/2020

If you're a dog parent, you may be in need of a 'canine survival guide' while you're hunkered down at home during the current COVID-19 crisis.

04/25/2020

How to socialize a puppy to sights, sounds, smells, as well as social and environmental interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Great article on puppy soc...

12/09/2019

Veterinarian Dr. Andrea Tu joins us to share the hidden dangers for pets over the holidays.

11/14/2019

Reframing the way we think about our dog's behavior can not only open us up to finding new solutions to behavior problems, it can also change the dynamic - from us vs. them to each species working together.

By doing this we can find solutions that allow us to express ourselves without subjugating our nature(s).

11/14/2019

Dogs take great care when learning how to understand and interact with us, so let’s do the same for them.

Check out our website for articles that will help you learn more about what your dog is trying to tell you!

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11/08/2019

No matter what your dog has done there is no need for physical or verbal abuse (we all get irritated at times but it isn’t good on any level to shout at our dogs). Any behaviour displayed by the dog has a feeling, a reason and a need. The best way to alter undesirable behaviour is to fulfill that need.

The sad truth is a lot of the time what an owner may perceive as disobedience is in fact the dogs attempt to relax the situation. The dog ends up being punished for trying to be kind.

Let’s give an example; Jim has learned in a traditional dog training class that he needs to sound strict and dominant so that Larry the Labrador will understand who is in charge.

Larry finds Jim’s voice to be threatening, so he perhaps licks his own nose, yawns and turn away.

Because of this Jim gets angry for real, because he perceives Larry as being stubborn and disobedient. Jim punishes Larry for this behaviour.

Unfortunately what Larry was doing was displaying calming signals in an attempt to relax and calm Jim down, Larry was using his own language, but Jim didn’t even try to understand the situation being explained by Larry’s calming signals.

Larry was punished for a simple miscommunication.

This is a typical example of something that happens on an everyday basis with many dog owners.

As humans bringing a dog into our lives we need to learn to strive to understand the needs of our dogs and to understand the language of dogs (Calming signals).

This is one of the secrets of having a good bond and a happy life together.

11/05/2019

File under: Wow!

Stella the dog's owner, a speech-language pathologist, says the canine already knows 29 words and can form phrases

08/07/2019

Please help Christina save Ivy! She needs all the help she can get to help Ivy get a rare treatment. I know all too well what she is going through.

07/13/2019

05/20/2019

International Canine Behaviourists

Thank you to Dog Care Professionals UK for this poster.
Think of growling as “a dog politely telling you they are not comfortable”

05/17/2019

Dogs Now Magazine

05/12/2019

Canine Transformations Learning Center

05/05/2019

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05/03/2019

Sit and Stay Dog Training

04/30/2019

Behavior Vets

Behavior is a process, not a thing. If you think of behavior as ever-changing and fluid, you will have more compassion for yourself as the trainer and for the animal as the one having the experience.

04/27/2019

It's A Dog's World Training & Agility Center

Thank you so much to lilli chin and Sarah owings for this! It is so great!

04/26/2019

What My Dog Taught Me About Consent

What My Dog Taught Me About Consent

Before coming to dog training I spent my life working with trauma survivors and educating people about consent and healthy relationships. For over a decade, I advocated for survivors of domestic and sexual violence and understood intimately the devastating effects of trauma caused by coerci

04/11/2019

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04/04/2019

Pawsitive K-9 Obedience

03/31/2019

If you tell your dog what not to do and don't tell your dog what they should be doing, they will definitely try something else to figure it out. Unfortunately, they will get it very wrong. 😆

H*ck the rules.

03/22/2019

Mosaic Dog Training, LLC

Giggle....pretty much

03/11/2019

Perfect Puppy Program Drop-In Socialization and Manners Class

This week's puppy class. Join us with or without the commitment!

Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 7:30 PM: In the Perfect Puppy Program, we work on lessons involving socialization, problem prevention, basic manners & impulse controls, and we give the pups a chance to play togeth

03/05/2019

Dog Training: It’s Not Opinion. It’s Science. - Calling All Dogs NY

FACT! While you may hold a certain opinions about dog training, there are actual facts which tell us the best practices to use.

So how does opinion come into play with this blog? It does when people argue about positive reinforcement (providing a cookie to reward a job well done so the dog will do it again) being better or worse than positive punishment (applying a shock to a dog so that it will stop a behavior and be less l...

03/05/2019

Dog Training: It’s Not Opinion. It’s Science. - Calling All Dogs NY

FACT! While you may hold a certain opinion about dog training, there are actual facts which tell us the best practices to use.

So how does opinion come into play with this blog? It does when people argue about positive reinforcement (providing a cookie to reward a job well done so the dog will do it again) being better or worse than positive punishment (applying a shock to a dog so that it will stop a behavior and be less l...

03/02/2019

Perfect Puppy Program Drop In Socialization and Manners Class

Join us at the Perfect Puppy Program with or without the commitment!

Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 7:30 PM: In the Perfect Puppy Program, we work on lessons involving socialization, problem prevention, basic manners & impulse controls, and we give the pups a chance to play togethe

02/28/2019

More fun with Cuse - Day 4 of #

02/20/2019

Karl Barx is officially a of the .

02/20/2019

Amber's run through part 1 at last night's

02/13/2019

Winky The Bichon Frise Loses At Westminster Agility But Wins The Internet

Winky the Bichon would like to remind us all to take our time and enjoy the moment. I think he had a great run! Can't wait to do more fun agility classes

A fluffy white dog felt no urgency about completing the agility course but won over the crowd anyway.

02/13/2019

Ol' Roy Dog Food Withdrawn For Deadly Drug Contamination; Pentobarbital Found In Canned Dog Food | Poisoned Pets | Pet Food Safety News

Ol' Roy Dog Food Withdrawn For Deadly Drug Contamination; Pentobarbital Found In Canned Dog Food | Poisoned Pets | Pet Food Safety News

Today, we learn of yet another national brand of dog food was found to contain the lethal euthanizing drug sodium pentobarbital: Walmart’s brand Ol’ Roy canned dog food. Walmart, the (…) Read more

02/12/2019

Allowing Dogs to Sniff Helps Them Think Positively

Let your dog sniff. Its good for them

New research shows that allowing dogs to exercise their noses is good for them.

02/04/2019

Housetraining help?