I’ve met with a few clients lately who contacted Four Paws and You Dog Training to find out about how to stop their dog from soiling in the home. When I met with them and inquired a bit about each dog’s background, I soon found out some, not all, had some incomplete house breaking andContinue reading “House Breaking vs. Separation Anxiety”
Category Archives: Mental Illness in Pets
Focus on This, Not That!
Counter conditioning is a useful tool in any trainer’s toolbox. It is an effective strategy in changing a dog’s negative emotional response towards a trigger. The aim for change is capturing a reaction which is calmer and relaxed while the trigger is present. This behavior modification technique can be used in a variety of settings andContinue reading “Focus on This, Not That!”
Pets and Mental Illness
The other day, I was in Albertsons picking up a few odds and ends when I came across Time Magazine in the checkout aisle. Time devoted its most recent publication and titled it, The Animal Mind: What They’re Thinking and Feeling and How to Understand Them. You can check out a bit on the edition:Continue reading “Pets and Mental Illness”
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