by Tena Parker | Jan 3, 2013 | Adding a dog, Fearful Dog, Foster Dogs
When Stress Signals are Encouraging One of the tenents of my training has always been to make things low-stress. If I’m seeing lots of shake-offs, yawns, or panting, there’s a good chance that I’m asking too much for the dog (at their level...
by Tena Parker | Jan 2, 2013 | Adding a dog, Fearful Dog, Foster Dogs
72 Hour Free Pass Like I mentioned on Monday, being rehomed (or finding a forever home) is a very turbulent experience for dogs. Their whole lives get turned upside down and the often don’t know which end is up. Besides a two-week timeout, I think there are a...
by Tena Parker | Dec 31, 2012 | Fearful Dog, Foster Dogs
Two Week Timeout For New Dogs Most of the time when new dogs enter our lives it is on the heels of some sort of serious life changes for the dog. They may have been pulled away from their mom and siblings, they may have been transported between states, they...
by Tena Parker | Dec 30, 2011 | "How To...", Blogs, Fearful Dog, General Dog Care
New Year’s Eve Safety Tips Each year I hear tragic stories of dogs escaping, or biting, or panicking during the scary clamor that happens at midnight. Between fireworks, people screaming, pots clanging together, and those little “popper” toys, it can...
by Tena Parker | Aug 5, 2011 | Behavior Modification, Fearful Dog, Reactivity, Reactivity Series
Again, my apologies for being totally out of order, but I just realized it may have been helpful to talk about the tools I suggest for working through reactivity. I do think there are some training tools out there that are actually quite counterproductive when...
by Tena Parker | Aug 4, 2011 | Behavior Modification, Fearful Dog, Reactivity, Reactivity Series
One thing that I was extremely remiss to talk about so far is car work (Ali Brown writes extensively about this). I like to use car work as foundational steps to generalizing behaviors and teaching pups that regardless of where we are, it pays to focus on me. I use...
