The morning was about stress and then behavior assessments. The afternoon was on learning theory, resource guarding, and training with specific types of problems. Attendees were from surrounding states and a lot of local people. It was great to see so many students/friends/people I know (a 4-H camper parent Read more…
Many people are more likely to be drawn to the dogs that are insisting on social contact rather than the dogs doing their own thing or actively avoiding contact. We like to interact with dogs by petting them and having the dogs be near us. Unfortunately, a lot of the Read more…
Ideally, all the dogs would perfectly learn all basic manners, all husbandry, and additional tricks. But, I’m the only one that does training, I’m only there for one shift, about two hours, per week. With about 20 dogs in the ‘big dog kennel’, and with cleaning having to get done… Read more…
Every week I do a shift at a nearby humane society. And I work on getting the dogs to have more behaviors that will help them be adopted and behaviors that make them easier to handle. It’s not a high volume facility and we don’t have a lot of dogs Read more…