Hearing a dog growl can feel alarming, but it is often the safest message you will ever get. A growl is a clear, honest ...

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.

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 ...

A 2021 study by the University of Helsinki, published in Scientific Reports, involving about 9,000 dogs, found that small dogs were significantly more likely to display aggressive behavior toward ...

"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Recently, someone asked me which piece of outdated dog training advice irks me the most.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 ...

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 ...

Forget perfect dogs and January overhauls. These realistic goals focus on enrichment, communication, and flexibility to ...

"After my dog’s TPLO knee surgery, he has a few times now growled at my wife. It is only when we are sitting in the living room (he is in a confined area still) and she comes home from work through ...