Think about this from the dog's point of view. There are signals someone is arriving. Might be a car stopping, might be the doorbell. ...

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...

"Emotional self-regulation is the ability to modify or control your thoughts, emotions, actions, and words, ... Self-regulating your...

This article is about people, but there are many crossovers to animals too. https://www.verywellmind.com/the-arousal-theory-of-motivation...

Aggressive behaviour from dogs can feel distressing and frightening. The thing to remember is that a level of aggressive behaviour is...

https://paws4udogs.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/understanding-dog-dog-sociability/ "The truth is that dog tolerance levels are variable, and...

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...

Credit: Sue Sternberg These are descriptions from the book Out and About with your dog – Dog to dog interactions on the street, on the...

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....

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...

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...