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.

Inconsistent Training

I am about to commit dog training heresy. Let me start by saying that the three main principles of dog training are repetition, timing and consistency. Consistency is often considered the most important. However, sometimes even the best dog owners have periods of inconsistency. This is even more likely if there are multiple people training [...]

Continue Reading | April 27, 2012 | Read all posts by Paulette Solinski

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 | Read all posts by Nicole Stewart

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”! My rescue dog Simon has severe anxiety [...]

Continue Reading | April 24, 2012 | Read all posts by Andrea Miller

I Swear She Knows How to Do This

Several months ago, I wrote about my ten-month-old puppy’s sudden fear of my toy throwing ability in Fright Night Take Two. She is completely over those fears and is a fetch addict… or so I thought. I live in an apartment where if you are standing in the living room, the kitchen is straight down [...]

Continue Reading | April 23, 2012 | Read all posts by Alison Downs

Baby Steps: One Secret to Training

For the last few weeks, I’ve been assisting another trainer with private lessons for a dog who’s reactive to strangers. That is, the dog takes the idea of being a watch dog to the extreme and reacts (read “barks”) at any guest in the home. We were using a relatively new behavior modification technique called [...]

Continue Reading | April 20, 2012 | Read all posts by Greg Raub

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