Skittish Dogs: Fixing Our Bad Predictive Behavior

Page Reads: 1,233 Your dog takes physical cues from you at all times…especially when walking in small or narrow areas such as the hallway or bathroom. In these tight, restricted areas is the expectation from your dog that you will walk a tightly focused path so neither of you walk into the other. For an abused dog that’s lived through human abuse…walking that closely within a hallway is very difficult

MINGKI: Extremely Skittish & Unpredictable ‘Meat Dog’

Over 20,000 dogs rescued…Mingki was the one dog no one in Los Angeles could train in 4 months.

It took James Tsai 36 hours to do the “impossible”.

Of all the trainers and behaviorists in North America this well-known foundation had at their disposal, James Tsai was the one they reached out for help.

Is Treat Training A Dangerous Dog Counter-Intuitive?

Consider LIMA/Skinner predicating treat training dysfunctional dogs as uncogent. Okay? We give the reactive dog treats expecting (eventual) compliance. Yet nowhere in the entire canine species is food used as a communication device much less as a reward fiat

Yet that’s the litmus test on whether an aggressive dog lives or dies.

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