In all honesty, few of us know
enough about dog behavior to properly train a pup.
Not exact matches
Having spent thousands of hours in shelters as a volunteer, I see these hapless
dogs often bounce from home to home, because shelters are not in the business or practice of rehabilitating problem
dogs (which shelters also don't utilize the assistance of their skilled local trainers quite
enough, in part because they think they know as much
about behavior as we trainers do, or think they know
enough).
Tom was gracious
enough to let
Dog Behavior Blog reprint the infographics that he developed
about Canine Fitness.
As a novice handler, I wanted to learn all I could
about dog behavior and training techniques and realized that one
dog was not
enough, so soon came
dog # 2 and both earned AKC Junior titles and stared working on Senior.
Systematic Desensitization and Counterconditioning When the problem is rooted in how a
dog feels
about a particular thing, it sometimes isn't
enough to just teach him a different
behavior — like to fetch a toy instead of howling, for example.