Before ~N~ After Dog Training
                    Canine Behavior Consultant in Connecticut

Humping doesn’t happen randomly—it’s triggered by overstimulation, stress, frustration, or repeated patterns your dog has learned over time. When you understand what happens right before the behavior, you can step in early and change the outcome.

While a clear toned NO can signal stop what you are doing it doesn't help your dog change his instinctual reaction and change direction to do something else.

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There are plenty forms of “enrichment” that can be provided to decreased stress and boredom, increase a dog's confidence, improve impulse control and keep your dog both mentally and physically healthy.

It is important to train your dog to the muzzle and to maintain a positive association in case you ever do need to muzzle your dog for safety reasons. It begins with getting the dog to associate the muzzle with fun times. When you pull the muzzle out. We don’t want the muzzle to stress or frighten your dog, especially around other dogs, going to the groomer or vet visits.

Sometimes you just need your dog to go outside and do their business with no play or sniff time. Here is how we can teach our pups not to...

Mimicking - Dogs are amazing... Studies show that dogs sometimes respond to a human's yawn with a yawn of their own! Dogs are one of the only species that have the capacity for contagious yawning and mimicking states of consciousness... (Check out the research here) There is also some really great research on dog's and their capacity for Empathy. Check that out here.

I don't want to put my dog in a crate either but troubles happen when the pup is unsupervised. Ways your pup feels versus the way you feel.

Crate training for puppies and older dogs can dramatically help with many of the behaviors that you may be struggling with.

A puppy does grow out of some nasty behaviors while others may increase rather than decrease over time. Here is the list.

There are plenty of ways for our dogs to communicate without always defaulting to the bark. Many new puppy owners enjoy their puppies first squeaky attempts to bark and respond to their pups with ey

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