The difference between moods and emotions.
The mood is climate. Emotions are the weather . Credit to this site for this image If most of the emotions a dog is experiencing are in...
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- Aug 25
- 1 min
Emotional regulation
"Emotional self-regulation is the ability to modify or control your thoughts, emotions, actions, and words, ... Self-regulating your...
- Jul 7
- 2 min
Arousal theory of motivation
This article is about people, but there are many crossovers to animals too. https://www.verywellmind.com/the-arousal-theory-of-motivation...
- Jul 7
- 4 min
Aggression
Aggressive behaviour from dogs can feel distressing and frightening. The thing to remember is that a level of aggressive behaviour is...
- Mar 31
- 1 min
Dog to dog sociability
https://paws4udogs.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/understanding-dog-dog-sociability/ "The truth is that dog tolerance levels are variable, and...
- Mar 3
- 2 min
Threat displays
These are my notes from a 2018 webinar by Sarah Whitehead from the UK. This is MY interpretation of what she said, as best I could do...
- Mar 3
- 8 min
Characters at the dog park
Credit: Sue Sternberg These are descriptions from the book Out and About with your dog – Dog to dog interactions on the street, on the...
- Feb 27
- 3 min
Be Calm
I recently read a blog post saying that in tense or exciting situations, the handler should be calm. This will help the dog to be calm....
- Feb 1
- 1 min
You want to fix this, but be patient
If we begin work immediately our dog has been traumatised, we will just make the problem worse. (Hard to believe that we could make it...
- Feb 1
- 1 min
Why training might not work
We've been trying to TRAIN our dogs out of reactivity. Now I have a better understanding of why that often doesn't work. TRAUMA occurs...
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