Tag: dog behavior
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Understanding Your Dog’s Behavior Could Save You So Much Money
Regardless of what is the full truth we yet have to discover to understand dogs, they do have an almost mythical quality. That quality separates them from other animals regarding how they behave around and with people. How to Understand Dogs And Befriend Them If you want to completely understand dogs, a lifetime of reading…
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Raising Dogs vs. Raising Kids: 5 Ways to Practice Consistency
I don’t want to be one of “those” people that claim having a dog is the same as having a child. But some aspects of keeping a dog do resemble having a two-year kid. Others are completely different.
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5 Ways to Help Your Dog Thrive if You Need to Stay at Home
Dogs are remarkably resilient animals, surprising us with their fight through incredibly tough circumstances over and over again. But dogs are also social creatures that need the outdoors to thrive. Despite being able to lean on you for social support, staying at home will not be an easy pill to swallow for most of them. …
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The Alpinist Dog Who Got Lucky After Being Stranded and Freezing for 24 Hours
There is an unspoken pact between humans and dogs: collaborate, cohabitate, and support each other. Many of us have opened their hearts and souls to understand this intuitively. Some are not there yet. But that’s not so important: what matters the most is not which side of awareness you are on, but the depth and…
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How to Understand Stray Dogs
Understanding stray dogs is not easy, mostly because we don’t understand dogs and animals in general. Another reason is that we don’t fully understand ourselves and view the world from an anthropocentric perspective. Rather than being helpful, our human-centered approach is often an obstacle to understanding stray dogs. Although we think we know a lot…
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Small Dog Syndrome: When Big Attitude in a Tiny Body Causes Trouble
If you have a Yorkie, a Chihuahua, or a Maltese, you may have noticed the weird behavior called small dog syndrome. Small dog syndrome (SDS) is about small dogs with a big attitude. Smaller breeds suffer from this false size perception syndrome which causes them to lose discipline, bark, jump on people, disobey orders, and…
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Dog is Love: The Science-Backed Fact about Dogs We Have Intuitively Known Forever
Dogs are capable of unconditional love. Many of you know that without reading exhaustive science journals. It is intuitive awareness gathered in situations when you accidentally step on a dog’s paw, drowning in guilt only to see that your dog has forgiven your poor orientation skills before you have forgiven yourself. For most of us,…
