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 | 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...
by Linda Kaim | Feb 22, 2025 | Dog Politics, Ethics in dog training, negative punishment, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, Positive reinforcement
In an era where language is being hijacked to further political agendas, it should come as no surprise that the Language of Dog Training is no longer exempt. Weaponizing Language in Dog Training Our language is being weaponized with a deliberate zealotry not seen to...
