This down-to-earth manual will teach you how to use behavior modification to retrain a dog who bullies other dogs, or becomes fearful when approached by other dogs. This book is brimming with pertinent information for trainers and pet owners.
Chapters include:
- Aggression: Normal or Abnormal Behavior?
- Ritualization: Are They Trying to Kill Each Other?
- The Behaviorist Model
- Nature Vs. Nurture
- Dog Social Structure Paradigms
- Section 2: DESCRIPTIONS OF COMMON TYPES
- Tarzan
- Proximity Sensitivity
- Bullying
- Play Skill Deficits
- Compulsive Fighting
- Multiple Problems
- SECTION 3: ASSESSING PROGNOSIS
- Acquired Bite Inhibition (ABI)
- Client Compliance
- Bite Threshold and Presence of Protracted Warning
- Dog Learning Rate
- Recruiting
- SECTION 4: REMEDIAL SOCIALIZATION FOR DOGS WITH IMPOVERISHED PLAY HISTORY ("TARZAN")
- ABI Caveat
- Dog Selection for Remedial Socialization Groups
- Prep Work for Remedial Socialization
- Breaking Up Dog Fights
- Latch-On's
- Running a Remedial Socialization Group
- Fighting with Absence of Play in First Session
- Number and Frequency of Sessions
- When to Expose Tarzan to Regular Dogs
- Other Tarzan Combinations
- SECTION 5: ON-LEASH MANNERS TRAINING
- Use of Head Halters
- Head Halter Desensitization
- Client Mentoring
- Basic Meets and Greets
- Loose Leash Walking Exercises
- On-Leash Meet and Greet Handling Practice
- On-Leash Meet and Greets with Tarzan
- Sample Meet and Greet Training
- Growly Dog Classes
- SECTION 6: PROXIMITY SENSITIVITY
- Principles of Desensitization and Counterconditioning
- Recognizing the Presence of a CER
- D&C Hierarchy Construction
- Sample D&C Hierarchy for Proximity Sensitivity
- Counterconditioning Without Desensitization
- Predictability in Classical Conditioning
- Operant Mindset and Classical Conditioning
- Operant Exercises for Proximity Sensitivity
- Sample Operant Conditioning Rungs for Proximity Sensitivity
- Combining Operant and Classical Conditioning
- Medication
- SECTION 7: PLAY STYLE AND PLAY SKILLS
- Affiliative Behavior and Meta-Communication
- Play
- Bullying and Play Deficit Skills
- Use of Negative Punishment
- Negative Punishment for Bullying
- The Messy Business
- Play Skill Deficits
- Prompting Self-Interruption
- SECTION 8: DOG-DOG RESOURCE GUARDING
- Resource Management
- Resource Guarding Modification: Technique Options
- Sample D&C Hierarchy for Resource Guarding
- Operant Conditioning of Resource Guarder
- Conditioning Dogs to Avoid Guarder
- Sibling Rivalry
- SECTION 9: SEVERE PRESENTATIONS
- Predation and Predatory Drift
- Compulsive Fighting
- SECTION 10: PREVENTION
- For Owners
- For Dog Professionals
- For Public Officials
by Jean Donaldson, 2007, 116 pgs, eBook.
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This book is designed for educational purposes only. The services of a competent professional trainer or applied behaviorist should be sought regarding its applicability with respect to your own dog. The training of dogs is not without risk. The author, publisher and Canine Training Systems shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this book.
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Jean Donaldson is also the best selling author of the excellent book Train Your Dog Like a Pro, The Culture Clash and Mine! A Practical Guide to Resource Guarding in Dogs
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