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Recent Posts
- Dog Training During COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place
- How socialization works: Dogs (and only dogs) can truly bond to multiple species
- Helping your fearful puppy become a more confident dog
- My article in Bark Magazine about how often to reward your dog during training
- Locally sourced: Get to know your puppy or dog before adopting
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Why your dog must feel SAFE
- Realistic expectations: The semantics of “fixing” your dog
- Train your wee, little dog as if he were Cujo!
- Why you should take your urban puppy to socials after just one set of shots
- Head collars for loose leash walking
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Treat/Retreat: a strategy for introducing your reactive dog to houseguests
By Jeff Stallings Folks sometimes hire me to help with dogs who feel threatened or frightened by strangers entering their homes. These dogs bark, growl, snap or otherwise display signs of fear-based aggression on encountering new people. Owners sometimes attempt … Continue reading
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Tagged dog introductions, dog training, retreat/treat, treat/retreat
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Poor, poor Pepe: Old-school housebreaking and why it often backfired
By Jeff Stallings This post starts with a sad tale from my childhood in the suburbs of Atlanta with my family adopting a miniature poodle puppy we called Pepe, and ends with Pepe on the lam and ending up who-knows-where. … Continue reading
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Tagged dog trainer, dog training, housebreaking, potty training
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Don’t leave me this way: A primer on canine separation anxiety
By Jeff Stallings More than half of my clients bring dogs into their lives from shelters or other situations in which the dog’s history is unclear. And a fairly large percentage of those have some sort of behavioral issue, such … Continue reading
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Tagged dog behavior, dog separation anxiety, dog training, separation anxiety
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Otis gets her bona fides: The Canine Good Citizen test
Last Friday my dog Otis aced her AKC Canine Good Citizen test at the Berkeley East Bay Humane Society. While her passing was in my mind never in doubt, it does feel good to have Otis recognized for her obedience … Continue reading
Why it’s better to socialize a young pup than to wait for all vaccines
By Jeff Stallings I realize that many of my blog posts concern puppy socialization. This is in part because so many of the problem behaviors I am hired to address could have been avoided or mitigated had a rich socialization … Continue reading
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