by Joshua | Feb 19, 2021 | Dog
Summary: What’s the one thing we couldn’t do during lockdown? Socialize. What’s the single most important thing a new puppy needs to do? Socialize! COVID-19 brought some unique challenges for people bringing home new puppies, many of whom were...
by Joshua | Feb 19, 2021 | Shelter
Summary: A deeply personal case history of a litter of puppies from a stressed, abandoned Catahoula. Signs of significant, unusual aggression were present from very soon after birth in all the puppies, despite their mother being social and affiliative. After several...
by Joshua | Apr 29, 2019 | Dog
Puppies are not tiny dogs. While they are subject to all the same rules of learning theory, they are neurologically wired differently than adult dogs, and also have different physical abilities (Fox, 1964; Gross et al., 2010; Mychasiuk et al., 2012). My use of the,...
by Joshua | Feb 12, 2019 | Working Animals, Dog
A central tenet of service dog training is fostering non-reactivity to various stimuli to ensure a resilient and reliable service dog for the client. Service dogs should remain relatively unfazed by dogs passing by, people talking to them, and other types of...
by Joshua | Feb 7, 2019 | Dog
Searching Google Scholar for “littermate syndrome” + “canines” yields no relevant results. If the scientific community is silent on the issue of “littermate syndrome,” why do behavior consultants keep preaching about it? I started to think more critically about...
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