AnimalSensibility: Making Heads & Tails of Your Canine Conundrums
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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.
A 120 Pound Beagle
I bought a Newfoundland, but I think I got a beagle. I don’t really mean that, of course. I have a six month old puppy that looks like a Newfoundland and even has papers saying she’s a Newfoundland. However, she doesn’t always act like my last Newfoundland puppy. Sophie is a barker, which is annoying [...]
Continue Reading | May 16, 2012 | Read all posts by Paulette Solinski
Ask a Trainer Question Answered
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 | Read all posts by Katie Moody
The Original Sit Test
Pop quiz! In my last post, I discussed how dogs do not generalize commands. If you’ll remember, my dog, Sonar, would only fetch in one direction? Was she being disobedient? NO! I’d failed to properly “proof” her fetching behavior (pun intended) in all situations. Realizing this got me wondering, have I even “proofed” Sonar’s sitting [...]
Continue Reading | May 14, 2012 | Read all posts by Alison Downs
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 | Read all posts by Nicole Stewart
Military Heros
If you are anything like me, you feel great pride over the men and women serving in our military. My brother is in the Army and served in Iraq, so I am very proud of him. As a dog lover, I am very glad to see all the news coverage of our military dogs. Most [...]
Continue Reading | May 9, 2012 | Read all posts by Erin Schneider
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