by Linda Kaim | Sep 15, 2025 | anxious dogs, Behavior Consult, crate training, House breaking, Online Training For Dogs
Prepare Your Dog For The Holidays Every year, as holiday preparations are made and invitations go out, a lot of dog owners will begin to feel a little twinge of doubt. Will their dog behave with guests? Are they going to have to endure the chaos of tearing up the...
by Linda Kaim | Sep 8, 2025 | Aggressive Dogs, biting dogs, Dog Behavior Training
A friend of mine who happens to be a professional groomer called me not long ago, still catching her breath from wrestling a four-pound Poodle. The dog had bitten her when she tried to remove it from its crate. She was not shocked that the dog bit her. She was shocked...
by Linda Kaim | May 1, 2025 | Aggressive Dogs, Dangerous Dogs, Dog Behavior Training, Ethics in dog training, How to train a dog
While engaged in a conversation elsewhere, I posted many links to show work I have done on dogs with defensive or offensive aggression over the last half dozen years or so. EVERY dog in these videos had issues with other dogs, humans, or both. The sameness you see is...
by Linda Kaim | Mar 20, 2025 | anxious dogs, Dog Behavior Training, Dog Training Anecdotes, Fearful dogs
I was cruising through social media this morning before getting ready for work and came across a post about ‘consent’ in dog training/management/husbandry. The poster wrote about her perceptions regarding her fearful dog’s experience with a groomer....
by Linda Kaim | Feb 17, 2025 | anxious dogs, Dog Behavior Training, Fearful dogs, Maryland Dog Training
Separation anxiety is not simply destructive behavior when a dog is left alone; it is a distress response associated with separation from an attachment figure. True clinical separation anxiety in dogs is rare. That may surprise you, especially if you’ve spent...
