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Centered Canine In home private training and behavior solutions. See the transformation! Experienced with aggressi Does your dog scare or embarrass you? I can help you do this!!

Does he seem to never be able to settle down and relax? Is he anxious all the time? Is he aggressive or dominant? Is he difficult to control on walks? Would you like help changing these things in a way that is safe, gentle, and painless? And much much more!

14/10/2019

Often owners think that their dog destroys things in the house because they are "spiteful". Please understand that dogs with separation anxiety can do this because they are panicking.

11/10/2019

Too often we equate a “good” dog with a dog who is doing nothing. We come to believe that the absence of behavior is the goal and conflate it with training.

I couldn’t count how many times I’ve heard people complement dogs for “good” behavior because they were being still, literally.

Most recently I heard someone describe how a high energy dog spent an entire length of an outdoor kids’ soccer game in a sit. Aside from it being completely unnatural and just plain weird, I knew immediately how it was trained and I was right.

It’s not hard to spot an animal who's learned that behavior is risky. Stay put and nothing bad will happen. Punishment and coercion tend to have that effect.

Behavior, though, is how every living organism works to meet their needs. It’s not “good” or “bad”, it just is. All behavior is functional and suppression of behavior shouldn’t be the goal.

The goal should be to give our dogs a multitude of tools to meet their needs in a way that also works for us and our human world. This is what thoughtful and humane training looks like.

Training should encourage more behavior, not less.

Training should build curiosity and confidence.

Training should empower dogs to be brave and to try new things.

Training should create thinking dogs who make choices i.e offer behaviors that have been cultivated through a robust history of reinforcement.

Training should be a motivation to work for great things not to avoid icky ones.

Training should be empowering.

Training should be for joy.

Training, and by effect behavior, should always be an opportunity not a risk.

This is SO valuable to know!!!
05/10/2014

This is SO valuable to know!!!

Have you ever had a dog escape your arms or car or home? What is the first thing you do? If you're like most people, you chase after them. They run and then you run. It seems almost instinctual, do...

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