by Tena Parker | Sep 26, 2013 | Behavior Modification, Body language, Dog Behavior, Reactivity
Having The Meds Talk With My Vet Last year I wrote a blog about the events at the vet, years ago, that have made my life with Shayne so much more challenging. In a total and complete nutshell, she had two idiot vet techs corner her in the exam room (after I told them...
by Tena Parker | Aug 13, 2013 | "How To...", Behavior Modification, Body language, Dog Behavior, personal
Resource Guarding Between Pets–Triage and Treatment For those of you unfamiliar with Shayne’s history, she came to me with a food protocol from the humane society because of food aggression. She would stiffen, growl, hover over the bowl, and snap if a...
by Tena Parker | Jun 24, 2013 | Behavior Modification, Body language, Dog Behavior, Fearful Dog, Positive Training
Trigger Stacking–“but he’s normally fine!” Recently I found myself on a short road trip. During part of the trip I was driving on a bridge over a body of water. This particular road actually has two bridges–the northbound bridge has...
by Tena Parker | Jun 3, 2013 | Behavior Modification, Body language, Dog Behavior, Socialization
Aging Out Of The System–dog play “My dog used to love going to the dog park and playing with all the dogs. He was always fantastic and never had a problem with any of the dogs at the park. Recently he’s been getting into fights at the dog park and...
by Tena Parker | May 22, 2013 | Behavior Modification, General Dog Care, photo blog, Socialization
Counter Conditioning–Grooming Bandit Edition About 6 months ago, our groomer of Bandit for the last 10 years retired (she’s also our neighbor). She has kept a barebones shop together so I (and a few others) can utilize her stuff to groom our pups....
by Tena Parker | Apr 19, 2013 | Behavior Modification, equipment, Reactivity, Reinforcement, Training
Resolving Window Reactivity pt 2 A little over a year ago, I posted about a home improvement project for reactive dogs using window clings to prevent dogs from barking at dogs they see through the windows. Like mentioned in that post, we had a really serious issue of...
