Good Human Dog Training

12/01/2025

Snowy weekend enrichment

Treats wrapped in packing paper stuffed inside paper towel rolls! A toilet paper roll for the chi chi!

06/01/2025

It’s so much more than a clicker.

She changed the way we communicate with animals, and approach training them.

She brought positive reinforcement, clicker training and foundational techniques to dog trainers and she gave us the skills to use them effectively, efficiently and artfully at the Academy.

Thank you, Karen Pryor!

Karen Pryor died on January 4, 2025. Famed for teaching the world how to use a simple tool to teach skills to animals (very much including humans), she had a long life filled with adventures and an…

23/12/2024

When I ask my clients about enrichment, many say they have slowdown feeders and likimats. I love slowdown feeders for hoover dogs! I love likimats for those times when you need to keep your dog in a spot! These could be enriching activities for some dogs.

What does YOUR dog think?
Is the enrichment you provide working for your dog? Or is it frustrating, confusing, or too complicated?

Determining whether a toy that causes a dog to take a long time to eat something is necessarily fun.

05/12/2024

Even if you’ve “always greeted dogs this way and never had a problem.”

12/11/2024

Exciting news, Triangle pups, and their people!
Good Human is headed your way this weekend. Whether your dog dreams of becoming a service superstar, needs some behavior fine-tuning, or could use a refresher on their leash and house etiquette, we're here to help! You can check out our scheduling form to book your spot in the Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill areas.

I will be in the Triangle area this weekend. I apologize for the short notice. If you would like to schedule a lesson or behavior consultation, please use the form below to select a convenient time.

08/11/2024

Dog trainers kids…

Me: did you muzzle the unicorn?
Kid: yeah, he’s a little nervous and we need to protect him from making a mistake at the doctor.

Oh, can’t argue with that. 😂🤷‍♀️✌️

04/11/2024

Dog training classes, obedience, manners, and sit/down/stay do not address reactivity, fear, anxiety, or aggression. Just as teaching someone to swim differs from helping them overcome their fear of water. While swimming lessons can build confidence, they alone won’t change how the learner feels about water.

For long-lasting behavior change, get in touch with Good Human Dog Training. goodhumandogtraining.com

Obedience training builds basic skills, but behavior modification addresses deep-rooted emotional responses like fear, anxiety, and aggression. Learn which approach your dog needs.

25/10/2024

25/09/2024

In case you were wondering what it takes to use a shock collar.

17/09/2024

I was looking for my favorite handling resources for a client and remembered this gem. It offers such clear examples of dog body language, with expert narration. A fantastic resource—thank you, Dogkind LLC.

Does your dog want to be touched right now? Learn how to tell here! Do you need individualized help for your fearful dog? Work with us 1-on-1: https://www.d...

09/09/2024

If the test messages in our inbox are believed, we're back to normal - and exhausted and a little goofy.
If you have further issues, please message us here!

09/09/2024

In hindsight, we should have hired a border collie to manage our email. If you attempt to contact us in the next 24 hours, please use goodhumandog@gmail while we move our email hosting.

05/09/2024

We recently learned that our primary email was no longer working due to an error caused by our hosting service. This issue has been resolved. If you received a bounced email, please try again or contact us here if you continue to experience issues. We are deeply sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. We can train dogs, but DNS settings are a bridge too far.

28/08/2024

The Caswell APS is in urgent need of assistance. These small shelters play a vital role in protecting animal populations, and it's heartbreaking to hear that their team is feeling so disheartened. Even if you're not in a position to adopt a pet, please consider sharing their post. Raising awareness about the challenges these shelters encounter is incredibly important.
We so believe in the mission of the shelters that we want to offer a 10% discount for all new adoptions from any animal shelter. This promotion starts today and will run through September. We believe that every animal deserves a loving home, and hope this discount can make it easier for more animals to find their families.

We need our Facebook Family more than ever. 6 new stray dogs came in the week. No reclaims. Adoptions are at a standstill still. Rescues are few and far between. Most are full. Some rescues aren’t even answering us when we beg for help. We have a lot of amazing dogs and cats looking for homes. Sadly there are not enough homes out there. People call everyday with dogs they want to surrender, some with litters of puppies, cats they want trapped…it never ends. Our animals are stressed. Our staff is stressed. Our volunteers are stressed. We try to stay positive and upbeat while we help our animals, but we feel helpless, depressed, sad, worried, hopeless.

Please help us spread the word about our wonderful animals looking for furever homes. If you have ever thought about fostering, now is the time! If you have rescue contacts, please share them with us. Please continue sharing our posts. The more people who see our posts the better! We have so many dogs living in crates now. Come walk dogs on the nature trails next to the shelter, they love the break from the loud shelter environment. Come take pictures and videos of our animals for social media. Help us redesign our webpage. There are so many volunteer opportunities at APS! We need all the help we can get.

We have not euthanized adoptable animals for space, but we are at the point where we have no other choice. We have no more room. Animals in our care are loved by staff and volunteers. We work with our animals. We get to know our animals. We treat them like they are our own furbabies. We are all heartbroken it has come to this.

On a personal note. I am heartbroken. I love this shelter, our animals, staff and volunteers. So many wonderful things happen at APS, but I have never felt so hopeless about our future. If you love APS like I do, please help us spread the word about our wonderful animals who need homes.

Thank you all for your continued support of APS and our mission to providing medical care, comfort and compassion to stray, surrendered, sick, neglected and abused animals in Caswell County. Our goal is not to euthanize an adoptable animal including emergency medical cases.

~ Jenn Zattiero, APS President

***picture of our cat colony room full of dog crates

26/08/2024

No dog in the history of the world has ever pondered the ethics of stealing a sandwich off of a plate or felt guilty about barking at 3 AM. Dogs don’t have a moral compass as we understand it. They simply act on instinct and learned behaviors, and consequences.
�Your dog’s world revolves around, well, your dog. They’re not altruists; they’re looking out for number one. Do they love you? Yes, of course they do. But they’ll take your sandwich. �
Leave food unattended? It’s gone. Door left open? They’re on an adventure. Dogs naturally live by the idea of ‘seize the day’. They don’t worry about tomorrow - they enjoy each moment as it comes. Sounds great until you’re chasing your dog through the neighborhood yards in your skivvies.

Perhaps we love dogs not in spite of these traits, but because of them. They remind us of our own basic instincts and the joy of living simply. They don’t judge us by human standards, and in return, we accept them for who they are – opportunistic, self-centered, and all.
�So the next time your dog barks at 3 AM , remember that your dog is simply being a dog. And isn’t that why we invited them into our lives in the first place?

Rather than assuming your dog is being a jerk to get back at you etc., focus on positive reinforcement for desired behaviors and preventing unwanted behaviors through management and training.
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