Dog Behavior

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Dog Anxiety Treatment Plan: Stop Your Pet’s Suffering Today

Anxiety in Dogs Treatment: How to Build a Successful Treatment Plan If you’ve tried out any of the quick fixes for your dog’s anxiety, whether it’s calming chews, new toys, even weighted vests, only to see minimal progress, you’re not alone. It can feel like there is an overwhelming stream of contradictory information online about […]

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The Secret Power of Play: Why Being Silly is Serious Business for Your Dog

The Secret Power of Play: Why Being Silly is Serious Business for Your Dog As a certified companion animal behaviorist, I often see people laser-focused on “fixing” their dog’s problem behaviors. Whether it’s separation anxiety, noise phobias, or recall issues, we tend to dive straight into specific training protocols. But here’s something that might surprise

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The Primacy of Core Affect: Jaak Panksepp’s Groundbreaking Theory of Emotion

The Primacy of Core Affect: Jaak Panksepp’s Groundbreaking Theory of Emotion Jaak Panksepp is widely considered one of the founding fathers of affective neuroscience. Through meticulous animal research spanning decades, he developed a groundbreaking model of primary emotional systems in the mammalian brain. Panksepp’s core affect theory revolutionized the scientific understanding of emotions and their

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