Train Your Dog Positively: Understand Your Dog and Solve Common Behavior Problems Including Separation Anxiety, Excessive Barking, Aggression, Housetraining, Leash Pulling, and More!

Appropriate play can be rough, but human intervention is usually not needed. As long as each dog allows the other to win and lose the game, the potential for conflict is avoided.

One effective method to stop a barking dog is to actually encourage that dog to bark and then teach her to stop on cue. This is called the controlled barking technique

the definition of a true pack is, again, a mother, father, and their offspring—a combination usually found only in the wild (not in captivity).

In conclusion, although their similar appearance and genetic proximity to one another make it tempting to assume that dogs and wolves behave the same way, they are dissimilar enough to warrant separate studies of their behavioral tendencies.

Simply feeding your dog a higher-quality food as well as dividing the food into multiple smaller meals throughout the day may satisfy the dog’s hunger and quell the need to indulge elsewhere.

If you have a social, yet frustrated dog, simply turn and walk him away from the source until he is more composed; allow him to greet only when he is

By lowering expectations and accepting that dogs don’t have to be sociable with everyone they meet,

There is a much simpler explanation: dogs love to be outside, and the walk is a stimulating and exciting part of their day, so the desire to push ahead is very strong.

• Research has shown that when a dog sees a person she likes, her tail wags more to the right. When she sees an unfamiliar person, her tail wags more to the left.