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Reactive Dog? How To Lessen On-Leash Aggression

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …with no means of escape. Aggression and the desire to protect the owner or territory causes some dogs to misbehave on leash. Some dogs are braver when walking with more…

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Dogs Training & Grooming

Mine! Does Your Dog Have a Problem Sharing With Others? Why It Happens and Fear Free Ways to Respond

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Reading Time: 5 minutes …Here? According to one study, 50 percent of dogs exhibit possessive aggression. Peanut was not alone! Aggression around objects is a normal behavior that can become abnormal. If you have…

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Cats Life at Home Shelters & Fostering

Study Aims to Help Cats Live Their Best 9 Lives With Less Stress

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Reading Time: 4 minutes …researchers report. Study Details The five feline personality traits the study focused on were fearfulness, activity/playfulness, aggression toward humans, sociability toward humans, and sociability toward cats. The two behaviors highlighted…

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Fearful Fido?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …fear aggression. Extreme fear interferes with learning, making it even more difficult to help dogs overcome the angst. Fearful dogs quickly recognize that escape behaviors or fear aggression makes the…

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Face Talk: What Your Cat’s Whiskers Tell You About His Mood

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Reading Time: 2 minutes …ears, clue us in on a cat’s aggression. Heed the warning. Whiskers pulled back tightly to the face signal aggression. In the case of offensive aggression, whiskers and ears point…

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Can cats and dogs get along? Science says yes

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Reading Time: 4 minutes …to matter as much if the dog was sometimes uneasy. And though aggression was rare, it was mostly from the cats toward the dog. On the one hand that’s a…

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Fraidy Cat? How To Recognize Signs Of Feline Fear, Anxiety And Stress

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …early signs of stress and extinguish the first spark before it ignites a firestorm of fear or fear-aggression. Cats avoid conflict and give many signals to ward off confrontation. When…

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Cattens: The Young And The Restless

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …at further distances. Territorial imperative develops further than the kittenish possessiveness with toys and food. (“Mine!”) Play aggression rises:  Noodles wants and needs to play and tussle with pals. She…

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What’s a PVP? An Expert Explains

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …increased lethargy, vomiting, diarrhea, or changes in appetite. With any anti-anxiety medication there is the risk of disinhibition of aggression (loss of conscious control of the aggression response) or paradoxical…

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Dogs Life at Home Training & Grooming

Sibling Rivalry: When Canine Housemates Don’t Get Along

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Reading Time: 3 minutes …you have dogs of significantly different sizes so a fight would be seriously unmatched, get the help of a professional, reward-based trainer. Using punishment-based methods can increase aggression, and aggression