AnimalSensibility is the place to turn to for all of your dog training answers. Collectively, our staff has more than 75 years of extensive and comprehensive experience in dog training and behavior and of course, total dedication to dogs. We are active members of several professional organizations, regularly attend seminars and conferences and are happily obsessed with obtaining the most up-to-date training and behavior information available — and then passing it along to you. This blog is our opportunity to do that on a much larger scale. Our trainers will share new training techniques, case studies from the many classes and private lessons we conduct each week all over Chicagoland, stories from our time volunteering with rescues and shelters, as well as our experiences with our own dogs.
Here’s the next round of answers for our Ask a Trainer feature on our new website. It’s your chance to get dog training advice from the pros at AnimalSense. Stay tuned for more questions & answers, and if you have a burning dog training question, just “Ask a Trainer”! Please note this question has been edited [...]
Continue Reading | May 15, 2012
How many of us have had that thought after a particularly bad day? Your boss changes his mind about your presentation and now you have hours of work to do at home tonight to make your deadline. Then, you find that you have a parking ticket when you leave the office. Once you get home, [...]
Continue Reading | April 18, 2012
Fear is normal. It is evolutionarily smart. The animals (or humans for that matter) that had no fear were easy pickings for predators and didn’t get the chance to pass on their genes. Today, however, it is not uncommon to see fearful behavior in our dogs directed toward everyday objects – the vacuum cleaner, garbage [...]
Continue Reading | March 21, 2012
Ever heard the phrase the cobbler’s children have no shoes? Well, I will make a confession; my dogs do not always have the picture-perfect manners one might hope that a trainer’s dog would possess. They know all the basic commands, a couple of cute tricks and generally respond to what I ask them to do. [...]
Continue Reading | February 17, 2012
As the mother of two, I’m pretty sure I couldn’t have made it through the exhausting newborn period without the help of my good friends the infant swing and the vibrating bouncy seat. Usually one or the other worked to give me enough time to do something requiring two arms, like showering, and kept my [...]
Continue Reading | January 23, 2012