Set Your Goals for Successful Dog Training Does your dog have some behaviors that you’d like to improve on? Would you like to increase your own skills as a trainer to help your dog’s long term behavior? With both New…
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Goals for Successful Dog Training
Tagged with: Animal training, Behavior, clicker training, Dog, dog behavior, Dog training, human dog bond, Pet Tutor, reward based training, Smart Animal Training Systems
Posted in Misc
Posted in Misc
Separation Anxiety
The Separation Anxiety Top 10 List – by Malena DeMartini These are the key components to incorporate or understand when working with separation anxiety. Unlike with most listicles, you must approach this list as a whole; picking and choosing won’t…
From Auspicious Beginnings to a Hard-won Solution – Malena DeMartini
From Auspicious Beginnings to a Hard-won Solution – Malena DeMartini My second client ever (circa 2001) was a separation anxiety case. The dog’s name was Guinness, like the beer, and his guardians had found him sickly and tattered, scavenging for…
There are 3 Es in modern dog training: Efficacy, Efficiency and Ethics
As trainers, we talk to dog guardians all the time. They come to us with questions and concerns about their dog and our job is to help them work out the best approach to their canine’s needs. Many have been…
The top 10 blogs you’ve liked in 2014
Another year has just gone by! I don’t know about you, but it feels like no matter how much I get accomplished, that to-do list just keeps on going. But before we take on a new year, let’s take a…
Tagged with: Animal training, Behavior, Dog, dog aggression, dog behavior, dog cognition, Dog training, dog walk, dog walking, dogs, human dog bond, Jennifer Cattet, Pet Tutor, reward based training, Smart Animal Training Systems, Technology
Posted in Misc, science, Technology, Training tools
Posted in Misc, science, Technology, Training tools
Animal Madness – A review of Laurel Braitman’s insightful new book
“Given my choice, I would almost always choose to be a feral dog. Maybe you don’t live as long, maybe you don’t have shots, maybe you have mange, but I would choose that in a hot second over waiting for…
Tagged with: abandonment, Animal Madness, animal shelters, Behavior, Dog, dog behavior, dogs, fear, Jennifer Cattet, Smart Animal Training Systems
Posted in Dog behavior, emotions, Misc, Psychology, Separation anxiety
Posted in Dog behavior, emotions, Misc, Psychology, Separation anxiety
When science and dog training come together – SPARCS 2014
Dog lovers from all walks of life are often convinced that they have a fairly strong understanding of dog behavior. From the dog guardians to the dog professionals, most feel confident about interpreting canine behavior and are quick at dispensing…
Tagged with: #SPARCS2014, Animal training, Behavior, dog cognition, Dog training, Ethology, human dog bond, Jennifer Cattet, Pet Tutor, Smart Animal Training Systems, SPARCS 2014
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog training, Dog/human relationship, Educational, Misc, science
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog training, Dog/human relationship, Educational, Misc, science
Behavior momentum: increasing efficiency in training
Regardless of what species we’re referring to, whether human, dog, horse, dolphin or bird, when teaching something new, the easier we can make the training session, the better the results. If a dog or a child feels successful, their desire…
Tagged with: Animal training, Behavior, behavior momentum, Behaviorism, clicker training, Dog, Jennifer Cattet, Smart Animal Training Systems
Posted in Dog training, Learning theory, Misc, Psychology, science
Posted in Dog training, Learning theory, Misc, Psychology, science
The Matching Law, Key To Dog Behavior
What makes us chose between watching our favorite TV show and writing the paper due in a couple of weeks? Why do we opt to walk our dog instead of making that important phone call to a difficult client? Why…
Tagged with: Animal training, Behavior, Behaviorism, clicker training, Dog, dogs, Jennifer Cattet, reward based training, SMART
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog training, Positive Animal Training, science
Posted in Dog behavior, Dog training, Positive Animal Training, science
Animal Emotions – the driving force behind our dog’s behaviors
As an animal lover it’s hard to imagine that, despite Darwin’s claims in 1872, it’s only until very recently that most people considered humans as the only emotional species on the planet. We’re living in very exciting times, an actual…
Tagged with: Behavior, Dog, dog cognition, Jaak Panksepp, Jennifer Cattet, Smart Animal
Posted in Dog behavior, emotions, Psychology, science
Posted in Dog behavior, emotions, Psychology, science