The permanent management of unwanted dog behavior has become a pandemic. Its all the rage with veterinary behaviorists, force-free dog trainers, animal rights organizations, and other groups unburdened by knowledge or understanding of typical dog beh ...
This is a companion post to Ivan Balabanov’s Training Without Conflict Podcast Episode: The Real Facts About Science-Based Dog Training. The podcast episode can be found on YouTube. It is also embedded at the bottom of this article. This episod ...
Category: General Information
Tags: dog training, dog training science, e-collar, e-collars, electric collars, Ivan Balabanov, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, science-based dog training, training, training without conflict, twc
Caring for a German Shepherd can be a handful! Especially as they get older. In this video, I share tips and tricks for keeping my dogs healthy. My German Shepherd Max lived to be 19 years old.
Category: Health & Nutrition
Tags: animal welfare, breed-specific GSD food, breed-specific raw food, dog care, dog health, dog welfare, dog well-being, german shepherd, german shepherd dog, gsd, raw feeding
Unfortunately, far too many dog trainers fail to understand the ethological meaning of dominance, submission, and aggression and misuse them. Dominance and submission are terms ethology defines, not dog trainers.
We generally distinguish two types of food aggression in dogs: a genetic predisposition or a learned behavior. The former is more common and has to be managed, and the latter is less common but can be resolved. Food-aggressive dogs are not automatica ...
Leash aggression in dogs is one of those phrases we hear regularly. Most dog owners use this term if their dog loses their mind at other dogs, people, cars, or bikes, or whatever when on a leash. Off-leash the dog may even be totally fine.
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