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

Compliments Improve Competence As a boy I saw it happen time after time. My mother loved all animals, but she especially loved cows. When she bought a cow she would name her, pet her, and treat her like a member of the family. I have seen her buy a three-gallon-a-day producer (average for the 1930s and ’40s) on many occasions and in a matter of wee

every dog is different.

Most positive trainers do use discipline in the form of vocal interrupters, time-outs, ignoring negative behavior, or removing something that the dog wants, all of which are meant to guide the dog into making the right choices rather than force her to behave out of fear.

Di tutt’altra natura è l’attaccamento e la fedeltà di quelle razze che hanno nelle vene sangue lupino. In luogo del persistente attaccamento infantile che distingue soprattutto i nostri comuni cani domestici, discendenti dallo sciacallo dorato, prevale in quelli una fedeltà virile. Mentre lo sciacallo è in sostanza un animale selvatico stanziale e

a study in the Journal of Experimental Biology found that dogs can actually experience a “runner’s high.”1 So, pair that with the fact that dogs historically love working with and just being with humans,

Sheepdogs are very good at detecting even the smallest movements in the distance, and they rely on this ability to detect moving prey and retrieve game.