Reading Dog Behavior

By joshyoung | joshuayoung | 29 Jan 2020

Behavior related to unmet needs

Chewing up items, mouthing, biting - Needs a harder bone to chew. May need to be trained on how to chew it.

Not paying attention to you - You are not rewarding/ the environment has too much distraction. Either up your reward value or limit the distractions.

Not taking treats anymore while in training - Past threshold training limit, immediately do something fun: play, tug, wrestle, etc.

Behaviors may be related to medical issues

Tilting head to one side - Ear infection.

Coughing - Canine cough.

Anus scratched across floor - Anal gland expression.

Marking Behaviors

Sitting on you/ moving their Anus three inches from you. Not okay if this isn't your dog.

lifting leg to pee for under 1 second

crotch and armpit sniffing

Submissive Behaviors

Showing belly

Peeing

Shaking

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joshyoung

Dog trainer. Previous caterer. Focused on happiness.

joshuayoung

Dog trainer in training, focused on positive reinforcement training principles. Long term travel partner, co business owner and wife, Scotti, works in applied behavior analysts with autistic children 4 and under. In January 2020 we adopted 1.5 year old Tommy Pickles, a white and brown bully breed, mostly pit.