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 | Aug 1, 2011 | Blogs, Uncategorized
When you have a reactive dog (particularly, though not exclusively, with a dog who may become physical [bite/scuffle] to get the scarey thing to go away or to express frustration/arousal) it is of the utmost importance to advocate for your dog. Dogs that live in a...
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...
