Tag Behavior
The Challenges of Owning a Challenging Dog
There are a lot of difficult challenges to owning a challenging dog. One that is a thorn in my side is dealing with people who don’t believe there are challenging dogs. By dealing with them, what I mean is basically ignoring them. Most people believe all dogs are naturally well behaved and if a dog [...]
Humans have a Weird Way of Looking at Leadership
I read this article today and it made me think of how humans have a weird way of looking at leadership. Mostly, we don’t choose our leaders based on their qualifications to lead, we choose the based on their ability to be nice to us, or agree with us, or give us what we want. Look at CEOs. Often they don’t even know much about their product. Look at managers, often they can’t even do the work of their “subordinates”, and yet they are paid more. This is dominance, and you’ve probably experienced it, and probably didn’t like it.
The Importance of Play
In this video, Suart Brown talks about the importance of play. And he mentions dogs numerous times as examples of creatures that promote play, and will play happily even with other animals, including humans. It made me realize that this is one of the huge benefits dogs bring to our lives. They play with us. [...]
A Different Kind of Patience
I’ve been struggling with something lately. And to tell you the truth, I’m not sure how to talk about it. So here’s the deal. I go out on various dog forums and usually concentrate on posting responses to people having dog troubles. I’m not a trainer, but I stick to stuff I know something about, [...]
Laptop Case
It’s interesting how dogs learn to live in our world. They have somewhat limited verbal understand, but an amazing understanding of our actions and what those actions mean. This worked against me the other day. I went to the store and bought a case for my laptop. It’s black fabric and slightly larger than a [...]
Kody’s Poopy Moods
I’ve noticed something. When my dog has to poop or has just gone poop, he’s not in the friendliest mood. It makes sense right? Are you at your most social when you’re just about to poop? Today we were outside and he heard some people just talking and he started barking and kicking and scatching. [...]
Street Treats
One thing I’m still learning to deal with is street treats. You know, that thing your dog finds on the sidewalk, or the grass, or the street, that fascinates him and he wants to roll in, chew, or eat it? The chewing and rolling in I kind of have down as Kody is doing pretty [...]
Another Fun Dog Behavior Video
Here’s another quick and interesting dog behavior video from Dog Star Daily showing the interaction between two dogs and what’s going on in their heads. It’s fascinating. Don’t worry, Ian Dunbar goes through it in slow motion at the end to show you exactly what was going on.
Interesting Dog Behavior Video
This video is from Dog Star Daily, which is a site I love only partially because it’s associated with Ian Dunbar, who I believe is speaking in the video. It’s less than a minute but I just found it very interesting, more from a National Geographic perspective than a training perspective. The video is here.