Dr. Jen's Dog Blog

Welcome back!  Today, we’re going to plow ahead with our discussion about how to help fearful or aggressive dogs feel more comfortable with visitors.  If you missed my previous post on this topic, you should probably go back and give it a quick look before reading further, since today’s discussion will build on that. Last time, I talked a bit about how I normally interact with fearful dogs when I do home visits.  In today’s post, I’m going to outline…

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Today, I want to talk about dogs who are afraid of visitors.  This is one of the more common behavior issues that I’m called to help out with – but fortunately, it’s also a relatively easy one to address, in a lot of cases!  For today’s discussion, I’m going to go through how I normally approach these visits to help make the dog feel comfortable.  We’ll also talk a bit about the training plan that I typically give owners to…

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