by Linda | 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 | 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 | Jul 21, 2025 | Dog Politics, Dog Trainers, Dog Training Anecdotes, Maryland Dog Training
Pet ‘Parent’ or Pet ‘Owner’? I ran a single-question survey on my facebook page the other day. I asked folks to determine if they saw themselves as a pet parent or as a pet owner. I knew going in that the overwhelming answer would be biased...
by Linda | Jul 20, 2025 | Dog Behavior Training, Dog Politics, Dog Training Anecdotes, Dog Training Tools, How to train a dog, negative punishment, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, Positive reinforcement
Reinforcement and Punishment The internet is ablaze with opinions of what constitutes reinforcement and punishment in dog training; what is too much, why should punishment be used at all, etc. There are entire philosophies built on the theory that reinforcement is all...
by Linda | Jul 7, 2025 | Dog Behavior Training, Dog Training Anecdotes, How to train a dog, Maryland Dog Training, negative punishment, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, Positive reinforcement
Post-COVID yielded a lot of fearful, anxious dogs with some extraordinary behavior issues as their owners returned to the office. Two years later, I am still working with many anxious dogs and the one thing they have in common are adult, first-time owners who have no...
