AnimalSensibility: Making Heads & Tails of Your Canine Conundrums
Posts by Nicole Stewart
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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.
Who’s a Smart Dog?
It never fails that someone comes into my class with the idea that their dog is “dumb”. Either, they haven’t had luck in training their dog themselves, they “failed” a puppy class, or it’s a breed who have a tendency to be a little “dopey” and the owner bought into it. Now, are there dogs [...]
Continue Reading | May 11, 2012
Trick or Behavior?
When I teach a basic behaviors class, whether it’s Middle Management, Puppy Pre-School or Fido Foundations, I usually refer to Sit, Down, Stay, Come, etc. as “behaviors”. They are things that we want our dogs to know because we are told that all dogs should learn them. This can create a stress around training in [...]
Continue Reading | April 25, 2012
Let Me be Me
AnimalSense holds a seminar called “Bowser and the Baby” at Prentice Women’s Hospital monthly, and I am one of the presenters. This is one of my absolute favorite things to do because: 1. I really believe I can help expecting couples prepare their dogs for the new baby and 2. Being in a room full [...]
Continue Reading | April 4, 2012
With the Wind in their Face
When people think of dog bliss, one image that might come to mind is a happy pooch with his head hanging out of a car, wind blowing through his hair and the amazing stream of scents that come fast and furiously as the car hurdles forward. There are, however, a couple things to think about [...]
Continue Reading | March 23, 2012
Backyard Misbehavin’
My clients call me to their homes for a multitude of reasons, but one that often doesn’t prompt the call, inevitably comes up in discussion time and time again. “I can’t get Fido to stop (fill in the blank – jumping, barking, digging, ignoring me, etc.) in the backyard.” Almost always I follow with a [...]
Continue Reading | March 12, 2012
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