Further, the more the dog rehearses the behavior, the more stress levels increase, which may cause an escalation to more intense behaviors (snapping, biting), and the behavior may generalize to other ...

"My dog, specifically at nighttime, will randomly growl... I was just petting her gently, and she growled. Other nights, we will just simply move, and she will be lying in her crate, and she'll growl.

Whether it's a puppy growling when playing or your dog letting out a growl when a visitor tries to pet them, we often see these forms of vocalization as being bad or wrong. If your dog is growling, it ...

Dogs Growl to Communicate Hello Justin, I understand how unsettling it can feel when a dog who is normally loving and cuddly undergoes a behavior change like this that feels so out of character. I'm ...

A few days ago, Italian dog trainer Debora Segna contacted me about a Facebook posting by veterinarian and philosopher Dr. Roberto Marchesini in which he wrote: “If my dog would growl at me during an ...

"He's a great dog, but how do I get him to stop barking all the time?" I have addressed this question before, but I want to approach it differently now because the "great dog" referred to above was ...

Recently, someone asked me which piece of outdated dog training advice irks me the most. To be honest, there are plenty to choose from, but perhaps the most egregious, and the one I settled on in this ...

A dog looking away from you isn’t being rude; it’s self-protection. To certified trainer Taylor Reardon, this is one of the “polite” avoidance behaviors that may prevent a dog from sliding into ...

When CC Carson moved to Missoula, Montana after finishing her master’s degree in 2017, she finally had the time and money to adopt a dog, so she started searching. Carson was drawn to Moose—a 30-pound ...

The internet has been bemused by a dog suddenly growling at a crawl space, and has accordingly come up with several theories about what prompted the behavioral shift. In a viral video uploaded to ...

A researcher at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) has found that more than 99% of dogs in the United States show behaviors that are potentially problematic, ...