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 | Apr 28, 2025 | Dogs, Scientific Research
I had teased this post from The Family Dog Project on Facebook. I have a lot to say about it. The post opens with a statement that “Many people view their dog as a family member, friend, or kid, but does the relationship with them really resemble these human...
by Linda Kaim | Apr 16, 2025 | Dog Training Tools, Ethics in dog training, How to train a dog
I have never liked the word ‘balance’ when dog trainers attempt to justify what it is they do when training dogs. I have never needed a descriptor to validate what I do. I came up from the ranks of doers, not labels. Dog training is a thing you do with a...
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 | Mar 18, 2025 | Dog Behavior Training, Dog Training Tools, Maryland Dog Training
I actually had the hubris to think I invented the term “failure stacking”, but that honor goes to a woman named Sunny, who writes to a substack about the stock market and trading. The difference is in dog training, failure stacking is the deliberate introduction of...
by Linda Kaim | Feb 28, 2025 | Dog Behavior Training, Maryland Dog Training, resource guarding
Resource guarding is the defensive control of food, objects, locations, people, or other resources the dog considers valuable. One of the most mishandled behavior problems in the domestic dog, it is also one of the most preventable. Those two facts existing...
