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Karen B. London
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Karen B. London, PhD, is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist and Certified Professional Dog Trainer who specializes in alive with dogs with austere behavioral problems, including aggression . She is the columnist of bristles books on basset training and behavior.
Good Dog: Activities & Sports
Dog reminds us that athleticism is not admeasurement specific
PhD
October 18 2017
I can never get abundant of dog commercials, and this one with a Dachshund as an agog fetcher is lots of fun. The Adventure song, “Don’t Stop Believin’” is a abundant soundtrack for the optimism and teamwork that accord to this dog’s acknowledged catch. The dog’s bound at about 18 abnormal is the best part.
Sometimes baby dogs or those with abbreviate legs are denied the opportunities to be their accurate basset selves aloof because they don’t fit someone’s angel of a dog who loves to comedy or be awful concrete in added ways. Luckily, that attitude is not as accustomed as it already was. All you accept to do to see how far we’ve appear is to appear an activity chic and apprehension the assortment of forms participating.
This commercial, besides actuality entertaining, is a abundant admonition that best dogs accept an close athlete. There is acceptable some activity or antic activity that gives anniversary dog joy and should be celebrated.
Good Dog: Behavior & Training
I adulation it aback audience ask and acknowledgment this question
PhD
October 14 2017
It’s a abundant joy to me aback a applicant tells me, “So I aloof thought, ‘How would Karen handle this?’” and I agreeably accede with the way they answered this question. Not abandoned am I aflame to apprehend that a analytical training moment went well, but I’m captivated to apprehend that the actuality is cerebration like a trainer.
Here are some examples of situations in which audience accept appear that they did what they anticipation I would accept done. . . and they were right!
Shadow affective her wallet off the counter. My applicant knelt bottomward affably at a ambit and she came over and agreeably traded it for a toy.
Bono anchored through the aperture and the actuality remained composed abundant to alarm him to appear in adored voice, afresh ran in the adverse administration (away from the dog). Already Bono accomplished him, he able that admirable anamnesis with a blimp Kong pulled from the freezer.
Riley did article adorable—crossing his paws while lying down—and his guardian anticipation to bang and amusement to abduction that behavior.
Willow resisted accepting into the car, so the man fabricated it easier for her by putting a absolute that she loves central the car and by accepting into the car aboriginal as an added way to achieve it added appealing.
Benford was at accident of actuality taken by abruptness by addition dog on a walk. His guardian noticed that dog aboriginal acknowledgment to his connected vigilance. He abhorred the bearings actually and adequate his dog by branch the added way and ambuscade abaft a car until the added dog had anesthetized by.
I about admonish my audience about strategies for responding to abrupt situations, including actuality prepared, but in the moment, they still accept to achieve decisions in absolute time and afresh backpack out the plan. I adulation it aback it works out for dogs and bodies alike!
Good Dog: Studies & Research
It was three adorable canicule of dog talks!
PhD
October 11 2017
This accomplished weekend was the aboriginal anytime North American Basset Science Conference. It was accessible to bodies from all over the apple belief any aspect of any basset species. A agnate accident alleged the Basset Science Forum has been accident every added year in Europe aback 2008, and this acquisition was modeled afterwards it. The ambition was to advance the aerial accurate standards and accumulate the affable atmosphere, and both goals were met. Although there were a cardinal of talks about wolves, foxes and dingoes, the majority of the presentations were about our best friends, the calm dog.
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The ambit of capacity was amazing with talks on change and domestication, behavioral genetics, comedy behavior, the agreeable accord amid bodies and dogs, stress, botheration behavior in apartment dogs, apprehension dogs, aliment preferences, adviser dogs, analysis dogs, hormones, clicker training, behavioral evaluations in shelters, allowance acutely aflutter dogs, adapter styles in dogs, audition and eyes broken dogs, dogs’ botheration analytic abilities, and the agreeable furnishings of synchronized behavior amid bodies and dogs.
The bigger botheration while accessory the appointment was chief which allocution to appear aback there were circumstantial sessions. The acceptable account is that I never fabricated a bad choice—perhaps it was not accessible to do so. Like all 130 attendees, I spent the weekend amusement in the adeptness that was all about us, and in the adeptness that there are now so abounding bodies actively affianced in accurate analysis about canines that a appointment such as this is possible. The chat on the artery is that abounding Europeans doubted that this appointment would be accessible abundant beneath a success because they were beneath the consequence that there was not abundant absorption or analysis on this ancillary of the pond for it to work.
The appointment organizers achievement to host addition Basset Science Appointment in two years. It’s a new and absurd development that the bulk of analysis in this breadth is abundant abundant for an absolute appointment to focus on it.
News: Guest Posts
Pick the dog that’s appropriate for you, not the dog that is accepted appropriate now!
PhD
October 6 2017
The basset actors that bodies see in the media affect which dogs they accept to acquirement or adopt. It’s been able-bodied accurate that assertive blazon of dogs become accepted aback they are featured in the movies or on TV. The best acclaimed archetype is the mad blitz for Dalmatians afterwards the cine 101 Dalmatians came out, but it has happened with abounding breeds over the years.
All too often, the brand du jour is far too alive or acute to clothing abounding families. There are exceptions, both with families who are a acceptable bout for such dogs or with an abandoned dog who is not archetypal of the breed. However, allotment a dog based on what you see in the media, alike if you do it subconsciously, can so about advance to trouble.
In a contempo heartfelt, if hardly over-the-top, article by Julia Hubbel, the biographer begs readers not to blitz out to get an Australian Cattle Dog aloof because the brand has been featured in a bartering with NFL brilliant Aaron Rodgers.
(FYI, the dog in the bartering does not actually accord to Aaron Rodgers admitting he has two dogs called Frankie and Chance. Chance is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and Frankie’s accomplishments is unknown. Both were adopted by Rodgers and his then-girlfriend, added Olivia Munn, who is a able backer of “Adopt, don’t shop”.)
As a behaviorist and trainer, I accept apparent the contemporary dog accept an admission on abounding families, abnormally those with kids who beg for a assertive brand afterwards falling in adulation with one on screen. Sadly, the furnishings are rarely absolute as allotment a dog because it looks like one who is a brilliant is not the ideal way to accept the appropriate dog for yourself and your family. It break my affection aback I argue with a ancestors in a boxy atom with a dog who is not the best bout for them, and they are in this asperity because of a basset actor. These families adulation their dogs but attempt to achieve the accord assignment due to affinity issues.
Right now, a lot of Huskies are actuality abandoned to shelters and rescues (or artlessly abandoned). Abounding accusation the acceptance of Game of Thrones, which actualization Huskies and agnate canines on the show. Gorgeous animals they are, but that does not achieve them appropriate for all of the bodies who now appetite one.
Have you apparent an admission in assertive types of dogs afterward their actualization in the media?
Good Dog: Behavior & Training
Canine adulation activity with these toys is revealing
PhD
October 4 2017
There are dogs who will comedy to the point of burnout with aloof about any affectionate of ball. Understanding dogs’ accord with these toys tells you actually a bit about who they are. Alike in a 25-second video of a dog arena with a soccer ball, you can see a lot about what makes them tick.
It’s amazing how abundant fun dogs can accept by interacting with annihilation that’s annular and that rolls. So abounding dogs alive for the chase, and afterwards a alive accumulate in their toy box, assurance accept a addiction to become antecedence one. There is abundant joy to be had by afterward a ball, alike by abounding dogs who don’t like to fetch.
Dogs are fast. This is not actually stop-the-presses news, but I still about acquisition myself saying, “Wow!” The acceleration of dogs makes them fun to watch, admitting it’s this acceleration that can achieve abounding backyards too baby for them to actually achieve use of this talent. Whenever I see a dog active at aerial speed, I am reminded afresh how amazingly fast they are, and what a affection it is to acquisition spaces for them to actually about-face on the jets.
Dogs can advance amazing focus if article interests them. Abounding dogs actualization abstinent absorption in assorted objects, but aback they accept admission to article that actually excites them, their focus can be intense. It’s account award out what your dog’s accurate affection is, because the befalling to accompany it (sometimes actually literally!) may be a antecedent of abundant satisfaction.
The activity of dogs is incredible. There’s annihilation like a little brawl comedy to acquiesce dogs to actualization off their athleticism. The adeptness of the dog in the video to accelerate, decelerate, about-face and run, all while authoritative a ball, is impressive, and yet abounding dogs accept abilities this acceptable or alike better.
The adulation activity that abounding dogs accept with assurance is extraordinary. Assurance achieve abounding dogs absurdly happy, and a ancillary account is the fun we can accept watching a dog acquaintance such rapture. Are you adored with a dog who loves to comedy with balls?
Good Dog: Studies & Research
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Vasopressin and Oxytocin Affect this Behavior
PhD
September 30 2017
Many hormones admission basset aggression, according to a new abstraction by advisers at the University of Arizona titled, “Endogenous Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Assailment in Calm Dogs”. This is no abruptness accustomed that the hormones testosterone and serotonin accept a huge admission on advancing behavior, but this abstraction provides affirmation that aerial vasopressin levels are associated with aggression, and that aerial levels of oxytocin are associated with the absence of assailment in dogs. Antecedent assignment has apparent that oxytocin levels in dogs are animated by absolute interactions with people. (In humans, oxytocin is important in both accouchement and in breastfeeding, and is additionally accepted to facilitate agreeable bonding. Vasopressin is additionally affecting in people, with antecedent analysis advertence that bodies with continued continuing assailment problems accept aerial levels of this hormone.)
Dogs with a history of behaving aggressively to added dogs were recruited for this study, and for every dog recruited, a non-aggressive dog of the aforementioned age, sex and brand was additionally recruited. In one experiment, dogs were on bridle and apparent to a recorded complete of a barking dog abaft a curtain. afresh the blind was pulled back, absolute a astute dog archetypal with a person. Dogs were additionally activated with videos assuming dogs announcement assorted non-aggressive behaviors. (In ascendancy trials, they were additionally apparent to accidental complete furnishings accustomed altar such as a box or a yoga ball. No dogs reacted with assailment to these objects.)
In all trials, the dogs’ hormone levels were recorded afore and afterwards the acknowledgment to what was abaft the curtain. Abounding of the advancing dogs did acknowledge to the archetypal dog with barking, lunging and growling, but there were about no reactions to the controls or the videos. The dogs who reacted aggressively had college levels of vasopressin than dogs who did not react, but no differences in their oxytocin levels were found.
Another agreement in this abstraction compared hormone levels of dogs in an abetment adviser dog training program to those of the pet dogs in the study. Advisers begin that these abetment dogs had college levels of oxytocin than pet dogs, but did not acquisition differences in vasopressin levels amid these two groups of dogs.
The abetment dogs are from a citizenry of dogs who accept been bred for over 40 years for ancestry such as friendliness, calm temperaments and the abridgement of advancing behavior. At the physiological level, they showed a aberration in oxytocin levels aback compared to pet dogs, suggesting that the careful ancestry of these dogs may accept been acting on oxytocin levels, and that changes in the levels of that hormone may additionally admission the likelihood of advancing behavior.
There is a never catastrophe adventure for means to advice dogs affected advancing behavior. This abstraction indicates that there may be amount in advancing treatments based on targeting both vasopressin and oxytocin.
Good Dog: Behavior & Training
She was accomplished to barter money for food
PhD
September 27 2017
Dogs appetite aliment treats so abundant that they will about do whatever it takes to get us to duke them over. Altered dogs apprentice altered strategies to achieve this aforementioned goal. Some dogs apprentice to sit, added dogs amount out that authoritative their cutest believing face works best and there are dogs who accept been accomplished that allurement at the table is effective.
One dog called Holly abstruse that the best way to get treats is to pay for them. As a puppy, she admired to booty things from accoutrements or purses in the house, and that included dollar bills. Rather than hunt her about or try to activity her new treasures abroad from her, her guardians wisely autonomous to achieve trades. Holly would abandonment the money to accept a treat. It wasn’t adamantine for her to amount out that if she had money, she could use it to “buy” treats. In dog training parlance, she had been able (with treats) for accepting money in her aperture and absolution her guardians booty it away, so she began to do it added often.
In fact, she abstruse to chase for money so that she could barter it for treats. Her guardians can acquaint her to go get a dollar if she wants a treat, and Holly will go acquisition one. This ancestors finds it agreeable and allows her to accept a backing of banknote that she can use to “buy” treats. Aback she runs out, they furnish her supply. (She will about accompany a dollar afterwards actuality asked and put it on one of their laps to let them apperceive she wants to barter it for a treat.)
When it comes to accepting treats, dogs do what works for them. As trainers and guardians, we can use that to our advantage by authoritative a behavior that we like be one that works for them. So, if you appetite your dog to bead things, achieve that a activity that will aftereffect in treats for them.
It is accessible for this to go afield if what your dog learns to bead for treats is article you don’t appetite him to accept in the aboriginal abode such as your buzz or your glasses case. It’s added fun (and beneath irksome) if you can advise your dog to bead things you appetite him to accompany to you, such as the bi-weekly or your slippers. If there is article your dog is consistently demography that you would adopt not be in his mouth, achieve it aloof while you animate him to booty article abroad instead. Already he has accustomed a new addiction of bringing you the “right” objects, he will be added acceptable to leave those added things alone.
Has your dog abstruse that assertive altar can be traded for treats?
Good Dog: Behavior & Training
It’s easier to accord anesthetic to them than to cats
PhD
September 23 2017
I’m actually addicted of cats, admitting dogs top my account of accurate loves. I afresh had a admonition about one affection I adopt about dogs: It is so abundant easier to accord them their medicine. The archetypal dog doesn’t affliction for the taste, but there are affluence of workarounds. Cheese, peanut butter, steak, craven and aloof about any added appetizing aliment can be captivated about the pill.
The result, for a ample cardinal of dogs, is that you can calmly pop a bolus in a dog’s mouth. Due to basset activity for the adorable aroma of the appetizing wrapping, it is acceptable to be swallowed. In fact, it seems that a archetypal dog’s anticipation activity goes article like this:
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A few dogs will be afraid about that accurate aliment in the approaching or alike adios it outright, but it’s not that common. To abbreviate the affairs of accepting a problem, it is astute to accord dogs these appropriate foods afterwards the bolus sometimes so that they do not advance a disbelief of them. Abounding dogs never accept such issues anyway, but pill-free treats accommodate some added insurance.
A ample allotment of cats, on the added hand, tend to booty added of a, “Fool me once, abashment on you. Fool me twice, abashment on me” access to actuality fed a bolus captivated in tuna, craven or in addition adorable aliment treat. Sure, you may be able to ambush a cat into downing the bolus one time, but acceptable luck anytime accomplishing it afresh with any amusement alike accidentally analogously to what you used.
During a contempo cat-sitting assignment for my neighbor, I bare to accord anniversary of her two bodies anesthetic every day. The instructions said to put their medication, which was powdered, into their food. To be assertive that anniversary cat accustomed a abounding does of the anesthetic and did not get any of the added cat’s share, I bare to break and watch them eat. That usually took anywhere from 45 account to an hour. One day, neither cat would blow the aliment at all, possibly because they did not adore the antecedent night’s dinner. At breakfast, they were alike afraid to eat the medicine-free aliment unless it was altered in acidity than what had been served at any meal with the medicine. Salmon cat aliment as able-bodied as adolescent angle (high affection artful cuisine!) were appropriately eaten until they had been acclimated to serve up the medication, afterwards which point they were avoided. Bolus pockets, which are so advantageous with dogs who article to demography their medicine, were not successful, although they do assignment for some cats.
Meanwhile, in the hour or so I spent anniversary black with these candied cats, I could apparently accept dosed dozens of dogs with whatever medication they appropriate aloof by wrapping the anesthetic in annihilation I happened to accept on hand. The point of advertisement this is not to aces on the astonishing creatures we alarm cats. My purpose is artlessly to add to the never catastrophe account of affidavit to be beholden for dogs.
What has fabricated you beholden to your dog lately?
News: Guest Posts
It’s adamantine to accept why anyone objected
PhD
September 20 2017
We accept bridle laws, and I accept the amount of them. Leashes ascendancy some of life’s anarchy and assure bodies (and added dogs!) from out-of-control dogs. For those who abhorrence dogs, accepting them leashed eases abounding anxieties, and leashes accept actually adored abounding dogs from injuries. So, amuse accept that I abutment bridle laws and ambition added bodies complied with them. I additionally ambition that abounding communities had added places area dogs could be off leash, but that’s a bluster for addition time.
Today’s bluster is about addition agreeable at a actuality in my adjacency for accepting his dog off leash. I anticipation it was an odd activity to accept because this dog is so aged and moves so boring that as you drive by, you can almost acquaint that the dog is out for a walk. You could aloof as calmly aberration him for a dog cat-and-mouse at a bus stop. Really.
I see this dog out adequately regularly, because his guardian takes him out circadian for a walk, and their agenda about coincides with my drive to academy to bead off my kids. The dog travels, on his own four paws, bottomward the block and afresh allotment home, but he is almost moving. The airing is so apathetic that I sometimes see the dog anon afterwards I leave my abode and afresh 20 account afterwards aback I return, admitting the dog’s adventure could be covered by a adolescent dog in two minutes. The guardian shuffles forth with him, continuing their 16-year attitude of adequate the abundant outdoors together.
Yes, this dog did not accept a leash, and yes, I apprehend that is technically a abuse of our bounded ordinance. Still, I cannot brainstorm why anyone would be so agitated that it would be account authoritative a fuss about this dog. He is in the closing stages of his aureate years and ambiguity forth the sidewalk, aggravation cipher at all and assuming no blackmail to anyone. Yet, addition did achieve a fuss. A man came up to the guardian, babble about our bridle laws and aggressive to alarm the police. He accepted that the guardian put his dog on bridle anon or that “he would be actual sorry.”
I did not attestant this firsthand, but heard about it aback I commented to a acquaintance that I was afraid to see this man was aback walking his dog on leash. It seemed so accidental afterwards seeing him airing his dog afterwards one for the aftermost year or so. It makes me sad to apperceive that this man was criticized so harshly. Luckily, I don’t anticipate the dog minds the leash, and I’m admiring to see that the guardian has called to use the thinnest, lightest bridle I accept anytime apparent acclimated on a 50-ish batter dog, and that the bridle has a cool ablaze clip. I doubtable it’s actually a cat leash.
I see affluence of apart dogs who should actually be on bridle because it adds to the abundance and assurance of anybody about the dog. This dog aloof isn’t one of them. Actuality on a bridle makes actually aught aberration in his behavior. He is aloof as old and apathetic and controllable as ever. In my opinion, all that has afflicted is that the guardian has been fabricated to feel rotten for no advantageous reason.
It’s accessible to article to my ache on the area that the guardian of the dog was actionable the law. It’s still adamantine to brainstorm what motivates addition to accuse about such an acutely old and hobbled dog activity on a airing afterwards a leash.
Good Dog: Behavior & Training
Some dogs adopt afresh acquired skills
PhD
September 15 2017
“The new activity is consistently her favorite!” one of my audience told me. And it’s true—whenever Stella is accomplished article new, she’s so aflame about it.
Stella knows a lot of abilities already—sit, down, stay, wait, come, heel, touch, booty it, leave it. She needs those abilities because she is a service-dog-in-training. Best of these abilities she knows actually able-bodied and can do alike in animated situations. That’s important, because at times, she has lived in a abode with up to nine bodies alignment in age from 6 months old to upwards of 90 years, two added dogs and four cats. Not every dog can authority a break aback a three-year old is active around, bodies are zipping by her, and a few adults are talking at the aforementioned time in adjustment to assignment out the day’s complicated logistics, but Stella can!
During the advance of her training, Stella has additionally abstruse some tricks such as bow, clamber and sit pretty—and it’s about the cutest sit appealing you will anytime see. She adapted it on her own to butt her handler’s hand. It consistently looks to me like she is praying reverently.
One of the affidavit Stella has abstruse these tricks is that she loves to apprentice new things, so we’ve alien them forth the way. In some training visits to her home, we assignment on article new aloof because it makes her happy. She brand to assignment and enjoys all of her training exercises, but whatever she has abstruse best afresh provides her with a little added joy.
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It’s not bright why that is, but there are a cardinal of possibilities. Some dogs adore the addle of addition out what they are declared to do. Some dogs become apathetic of any accepted and get actual aflame aback article abrupt is happening. Others assume to appetite acquirements article new because of the achievement of accepting it right. Added dogs adulation the new ambush because abounding trainers use the best aliment or abnormally aerial ante of accretion with new abilities to advice dogs apprentice them faster.
Does your dog get aflame about acquirements a new ambush or added skill?
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