The trouble with animal training, is that they learn really, really fast. Whether we meant them to learn that thing or not, they will...

It was with desperate sadness that I read about the ten year old boy, Jack Lis, who lost his life to a dog in a house he walked into, in...

The easiest way to nurture a rewarding relationship with any animal is to work out what it is they need, want, enjoy and like and use...

Animals seem to find it easiest to relax when their largely unflappable people have a plan. I have a Viszla (Mess), who is an...

The feeling of releasing a dog you can't QUITE rely on to come back when asked is tense making for good reason. If you're reliability...

Imagine you are an English speaker, dropped off in Russia in the night, into a family environment and put in a room alone, with the door...

Self control, the ability to moderate one's own behaviour given circumstance or environmental change, isn't something I see very often...

Maybe...maybe, we don't need to know what respect is, but instead to consider how to hold another being's attention, how to communicate...

An awful lot of animals feel the pressure of human expectation as exactly that, pressure. Our focus, our waiting for a response, our...

We all know the basics of teaching a dog something, right? Give the dog a treat when he sits, he'll know sitting got him the treat, he...

Maybe it's been a minute since you raised a dog, or maybe you're a first timer, or maybe you're just interested in how someone else might...

More semantics! Although fear and respect live along the same sliding axis of relationship dyads, there are a few principles that are...

At its base level, communicating with animals is fairly simple on a one to one basis. Needs must be met, comfort and safety assured, fear...

Pressure is the force that drives all behavioural and evolutionary change on earth. From bad weather that motivates animals to seek...

For me, this is a term given to a collection of behaviours a dog displays when they haven't been taught what to do with solid physical...

When we see animals with people, they can seem to be one of two things - compliant and engaged with their person, or the opposite. Their...

Flexibility in learning is the ability of an animal or human to apply a learned principle in a variety of situations and contexts. For...

Most of the time, most dogs that jump up are essentially after your attention. Your focus, your body orientation, your hands, your voice,...

Have you ever wondered what dogs think about and do on a countryside walk? For the most part, breeds that are slightly less lap dog and...

Annoyingly, there are as many reasons dogs pull at the lead as there are dogs that do it - here I have a little look at the fundamental...