Types of Aggression in Dogs
Posted by Dog Training Manual on July 4th, 2009 at 9:39 am
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There are many types of aggression in dogs and in order to be able to deal with the behavioral issue you need to identify the cause of the aggression.
For example there are three main categories that the displays of agression can be classed into:
Hunting instinct - all dogs have a natural instinct to hunt to provide themselves with food. It is a trait that was obviously very useful in the wild a...
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A Group of Interesting and Thought Provoking Articles
Posted by Dog Training Manual on July 1st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Here are some interesting and thought provoking articles that I have come across on the internet in the last couple of weeks ranging from cute to progressive to extraordinary to downright inhumane, I'll let you decide which story falls under which category!
Dog Adopts Wolf Cub (neatorama.com)
China carries out mass dog cull: 37000 animals clubbed to death to contain rabies (telegraph.co.uk)
Dogs Trained to Recognize Low Blood Sugar (blisstree.com)
Dog-bite victim blames owners, not ...
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Dog Aggression Workbook
Posted by Dog Training Manual on June 30th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
The Dog Aggression Workbook by James O'Heare is a very useful companion if you have a dog that has aggressive behavioral issues. James O'Heare takes you through the entire range of behaviors and helps you to understand exactly where they come from. When you have an aggressive dog you quite often cannot see the wood for the trees, you feel awful and distressed by the entire situation and to be perfectly honest denial often seems the best route.
It isn't the best route though, your dog can be ...
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Get Your Dog to Stop Barking – Some Tips
Posted by Dog Training Manual on June 29th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
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Some tips to get your dog to stop barking follow but you have to realise that your dog barking is one of the main ways that he communicates with you, so it is unreasonable to require your dog to be silent. You can however minimise these incidents, the first place to start is by implementing a consistent routine for the following areas of your dogs daily life!
You have to be consistent have a routine for feeding your dog this will stop him having to remind you to fe...
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Hehe “barkingdogs.org” not quite what my research was about!
Posted by Dog Training Manual on June 21st, 2009 at 11:50 pm
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It's amazing what you come across when you are doing research into a subject!
Barking dogs is a subject that plenty of people want to know about both because they have a dog that barks a lot and they want to solve the behavioral issues and/or because there is a dog in the neighborhood that barks a lot and they want to know what they can do about it.
From Google I found myself on barkingdogs org which wasn't what I was looking for at all but fascinating no...
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