What should I do if my dog growls at me?
“I told my neighbor what happened and he said his dog growled at him, ONCE. Should I do what my neighbor did?”
First, step away from the dog. Step back from the edge. Don’t do anything. Take a deep, deep breath and enjoy a long steady exhale. [...]
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Posts Tagged ‘fear’
Growling
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Why Do Good Dogs Do Bad Things?
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009Question: if dogs are social by nature as Natural Dog Training claims them to be, how could a dog ever do something “anti-social?” Answer: because emotion must move.
A brief primer on emotion:
Emotion is energy. And as pure energy, before it becomes entangled in the higher processes of the nervous system and either [...]
Why Do Dogs Wag Their Tails?
Monday, June 1st, 2009Why do dogs wag their tails? The quick answer is that a dog wags its tail for a reason which seems self-evident enough, being that it’s the tell-tale mark of a friendly dog. Indeed, anyone who’s stood near the pounding tail of a prototypical friendly breed, such as a Labrador Retriever, can take a veritable [...]
Why Do Dogs Zoom-zoom-zoom Around the House?
Monday, June 1st, 2009Behaviorists call the syndrome of a dog running helter-skelter around the yard, or zooming from room to room in the house “frequent, random activity periods (FRAPS). However this is a profound misnomer because there’s nothing random about this activity. When a dog goes zoom-zoom-zoom it is actually fear coming to the surface so that it [...]
