To our dogs, jumping comes as natural as shaking hands is for us, with the difference being that when dogs greet us, their enthusiasm notch is turned up all the way to 11. Why are dogs so fixated on ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Linda Michaels, Author of The Do No Harm Dog ...

In a recent column, I talked about dogs with reactive behavior (aka Very Big Feelings) grounded in fear, and how we can help them. As a reminder, "reactive behavior" refers to oversized reactions to ...

Karen Pryor’s book Don’t Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training explains the fundamentals of behavior change. And these methods are effective whether the subject is a dog, a dolphin or ...