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Tag Archive 'Classical conditioning'

People-aggressive Dog? Positive Training to the Rescue

Posted in Aggression, Clicker, Dog Training, Positive reinforcement, Positive training on Apr 11th, 2011

Tweet UPDATE (4/11/11): Try this at home. Google “dog people aggression.” I did and here’s what I found. Outside of two notable exceptions, Google’s top eleven picks didn’t offer much that was helpful. Most sites referred to so-called “dominance aggression.” One site delineated a tedious taxonomy of differently motivated types of dog aggression. Several sites […]

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Fearful Dogs Everywhere–Rejoice!

Posted in Book review, Fearful dogs, Fearfuldog's Blog, Positive reinforcement, Positive training, Reward-based training, Touch on Feb 3rd, 2011

Tweet I wish dogs could read. I especially wish fearful dogs could read. But, since they can’t, yet, (even though Sadie looks pretty convincing), you’ll want to read Debbie Jacobs’ A Guide to Living with & Training a Fearful Dog on behalf of the fearful dogs in your life. Almost two years ago, soon after I starting […]

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Are Dogs and People So Different?

Posted in Behavior, calming signals, Dog greeting, Greeting behavior, Snarky dog, Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2010

Tweet      Sadie is sometimes snarky. So am I. Aren’t you? Aren’t we all?       (I know. Snarky is not a real word. But, it should be. It just so onomatopoetic.)      Have you ever met someone who just rubbed you the wrong way right from the start? At first meeting they […]

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