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Preventing Resource Guarding in Dogs
Resource guarding is a dog’s natural tendency to protect valued possessions such as food, toys or resting locations. From a dog’s perspective, the approach of a person or animal is a potential threat to losing the valued possession. The behavior reflects a lack of trust and a fear of ...
Phoenix Blog Competition: Choices Matter
By Maria Zarate
As a veteran shelter professional, I’ve always sought outside the box to find effective and efficient methods to help residents skill build. Here are three “go to” methods we use regularly in the shelter environment and I hope you find them helpful too.
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Making It Fun for Performance Dogs
I got told a couple of times lately: Shellbe (my German Shorthaired Pointer who I compete with in Agility) really covered you there! It was in competition or training when I made a mistake and Shellbe did everything she possibly could to make ...
Laughter and Learning at the PPGBI Mini-Summit
The PPGBI Mini Educational Summit, which took place in early September at the Leeds Mercure Parkway hotel in Yorkshire, England, was a roaring success.
Much fun was had on the first night as the attendees started to gather, register and ...
Meet Your Cat Where He Is
By Beth Adelman, MS
“The problem many people have with their pets is simply that it’s not the pet they want,” said the veterinary behaviorist at a lecture I was attending. And an explosion of insight went off in my head. Sometimes, ...
Battling the Stereotype
This article was first published in BARKS from the Guild, April 2014, pages 37-39
Jambo the Staffie has won countless awards and accolades, yet is officially classified as a potentially dangerous dog. Louise Stapleton-Frappell explains why ...
What Most People Don’t Know About Dogs
It's easy to forget that most people don't know things that we might consider obvious about dogs.
A friend was recently chatting with an experienced service dog trainer. The trainer, who will remain anonymous to reduce the potential ...
Beware of the Behavior Chain
Isn’t it frustrating, we try to train our dog to not jump up but it gets worse? It is the ‘behavior chain syndrome’.
We train behavior chains all the time, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by mistake. Behaviour chains can be great and ...
Experts United: Breed Specific Legislation Does Not Work
The following is an excerpt from PPG's recently released Position Statement on Breed Specific Legislation.
Countless animal welfare organizations and professional bodies worldwide have issued position statements that comprehensively refute ...
What Canine Behavior Experts Say about Breed Specific Legislation
The following is an excerpt from PPG's recently released Position Statement on Breed Specific Legislation.
Countless animal welfare organizations and professional bodies worldwide have issued position statements that comprehensively refute ...