by Tena Parker | Aug 10, 2011 | Behavior Modification, Reactivity, Reactivity Series
First of all, let me apologize.. my reactivity series has been absolutely all over the place! Out of order, poorly planned… just a bit of a mess. I’m putting them all in the “reactivity” category so if you want to find them all and read them...
by Tena Parker | Aug 9, 2011 | Behavior Modification, Reactivity, Reactivity Series, Training
Cool, Calm and Collected “Why doesn’t he completely lose it when you are working him? I don’t understand. How does he know the difference, I only gave you the leash!” I heard this from a client quite a while back and the answer is so simple...
by Tena Parker | Aug 8, 2011 | Blogs, Uncategorized
We’ll get back to the reactivity posts quite possibly tomorrow… it was a very busy weekend with a Nicole Wilde seminar and then a full-day’s worth of family time with extended family. It’s only 10:30pm and I’m falling asleep. So,...
by Tena Parker | Aug 5, 2011 | Behavior Modification, Fearful Dog, Reactivity, Reactivity Series
Again, my apologies for being totally out of order, but I just realized it may have been helpful to talk about the tools I suggest for working through reactivity. I do think there are some training tools out there that are actually quite counterproductive when...
by Tena Parker | Aug 4, 2011 | Behavior Modification, Fearful Dog, Reactivity, Reactivity Series
One thing that I was extremely remiss to talk about so far is car work (Ali Brown writes extensively about this). I like to use car work as foundational steps to generalizing behaviors and teaching pups that regardless of where we are, it pays to focus on me. I use...
