In the video above, you’ll meet Penny, a shelter dog struggling to get adopted due to her kennel reactivity. When people walk by, she barks and lunges—making it hard for potential adopters to see her ...

When CC Carson moved to Missoula, Montana after finishing her master’s degree in 2017, she finally had the time and money to adopt a dog, so she started searching. Carson was drawn to Moose—a 30-pound ...

If you've been struggling to train your reactive dog, rest assured you're not alone. Reactivity is one of the biggest challenges dog owners face and it can leave you feeling trapped in your own home.

We have a sweetheart of an English bulldog named Harley Quinn. We obtained her in 2013 from a breeder in Virginia when she was 8 months old. Harley came home to Alfred, our hydrocephalic ...

Animal shelters say the number one reason animals are abandoned or surrendered to a shelter is financial hardship. The second is behavioral issues. That’s where training comes in and there are a lot ...

It’s one of the tougher issues to deal with, reactive or aggressive dogs. Increasingly some might sooner or later seek out a trainer who says, “I will help by using a shock collar.” Dr. Zazie Todd ...

Owners get frustrated easily when they have a dog that is highly reactive to other pets, humans or even sounds, which is why many turn to dog trainers for help. One trainer's way of assessing ...

Have you ever approached a seemingly harmless dog that suddenly started barking at you for no apparent reason? Or do you own a dog that gets randomly anxious around certain people or becomes hard to ...

The importance of using reward-based methods to train dogs is widely known, yet some people still use aversive methods. By definition, both reward-based and aversive methods work to change behavior, ...