care is an educational website that provides, free of charge, solid gold information on the protocols of desensitization/counterconditioning and differential reinforcement of incompatible behaviors. positive reinforcement-based training is just now starting to leak into the culture in a semi-accurate way. now we can go a step further. the care site makes the information for helping our reactive dogs extraordinarily accessible and puts it together into easy-to-follow steps. and she is not repackaging information and claiming to have invented it. the …

it helps to pay attention to the situations that cause your dog to become aggressive, so you know how to train him. some dogs are instinctively territorial and feel the need to protect their space (your home or yard) from what they perceive as intruders. and a dog that sees himself as an alpha dog may feel the need to show that he’s in charge. this is the owner’s responsibility and doesn’t mean that the dog is a “bad dog.” …

jas leverette, of netflix’s canine intervention, is upsetting several dog owners and trainers because of his punishment-based training methods. canine intervention, still scheduled to release on netflix feb. 24, follows oakland-based trainer jas leverette as he helps several dog owners tackle behavioral and reactivity issues with their pets. “our exclusive dog training method is a system of competition-level dog training techniques and tools to make you and your dog successful in any situation,” the calik9 website states. saro boghozian, a …

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