by Tena Parker | Aug 9, 2011 | Behavior Modification, Reactivity, Reactivity Series, Training
Cool, Calm and Collected “Why doesn’t he completely lose it when you are working him? I don’t understand. How does he know the difference, I only gave you the leash!” I heard this from a client quite a while back and the answer is so simple...
by Tena Parker | Aug 5, 2011 | Behavior Modification, Fearful Dog, Reactivity, Reactivity Series
Again, my apologies for being totally out of order, but I just realized it may have been helpful to talk about the tools I suggest for working through reactivity. I do think there are some training tools out there that are actually quite counterproductive when...
by Tena Parker | Aug 4, 2011 | Behavior Modification, Fearful Dog, Reactivity, Reactivity Series
One thing that I was extremely remiss to talk about so far is car work (Ali Brown writes extensively about this). I like to use car work as foundational steps to generalizing behaviors and teaching pups that regardless of where we are, it pays to focus on me. I use...
by Tena Parker | Aug 2, 2011 | Behavior Modification, Fearful Dog, Reactivity, Reactivity Series
I suppose this should have been earlier in my reactive dog series. Mea Culpa–my fault. I wanted to mention some foundational behaviors, important moves, and management techniques that I suggest people put in their tool box for working with reactive dogs. ...
by Tena Parker | Jul 29, 2011 | Behavior Modification, Fearful Dog, Reactivity, Reactivity Series
In the first Bumping the Threshold post I talked about cued behaviors–Look at that, look at me, and touch/hand target. Keeping a dog “operant” or able to think in a stressful situation is important and these type of cued behaviors keep a dog...
by Tena Parker | Jul 27, 2011 | Behavior Modification, Blogs, Fearful Dog, Reactivity, Reactivity Series
There is a distance for a reactive dog where they can see another dog and not go into total meltdown mode–this may be 15ft or this may be 150ft. They may stare or focus on the other dog but they don’t respond with a reaction as an immediate response. ...
