The understanding of dog behaviour, and pet behaviour, in general, has taken great leaps forward in recent years. Gone are the days where scientists proclaimed that dogs were devoid of emotion. Nowadays, we understand far more about animal psychology, physiology and evolution. We now know that animals learn best through positive feedback - and why - and we use that knowledge to help your dog, and to help you understand your dog.

Motivation is a key element of dog behaviour (good or bad!) - why do they do what they do? Dog Behaviour Therapy is an in-depth and holistic process and is about figuring out these motivations and working on the dog's emotional state to help them cope with whatever it is that's distressing or exciting them.

We treat all dogs as individuals - just like people, dogs can react quite differently to a given circumstance. But the fundamental problem is that they have simply selected a course of action which is inappropriate or which we don't like. Dog behaviour therapy can help with problems such as

barking
jumping
pulling
recall
biting
fear of fireworks or noise
fear of the dark
growling
snappy
aggressiveness
separation problems
toileting in the house
not sleeping thro’ the night
stealing things
destructiveness
general fearfulness
puppy biting /chewing

All these problems, and more, can generally be helped. Don't just continue to live with it. It's stressful for your pet and for you.

What dog behaviour is not :

The old school way of dealing with dog behaviour problems was to either punish your dog or do things like never letting them on the couch or to walk infront of you. There is no place for punishment in the modern world of dog behaviour. We know how brains work now, and we know that punishment, whilst it may have an affect and may suppress the behaviour, is fraught with problems and certainly doesn't make the animal happy. Regarding the latter, pack reduction rules, well again, they may have their place - but - really what they're doing is applying some house rules and boundaries; they're still not teaching a dog about particular situations, not making them happy, and certainly not looking at your very own pet from a individual point of view.

Pawsability uses only modern, scientifically proven, psychologically understood methods when dealing wit your dog's behaviour issues.

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