In this post from Psychology Today’s Decoding your Pet series, Dr. Liz Stelow, DVM, DACVB describes some popular and behaviorally beneficial food dispensing toys for pets. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/decoding-your-pet/201609/food-toys-and-dispensers-dogs-and-cats
CAABChats Webinar – Case History Presentation: Resolution of Complex, Dangerous Aggression in a Horse
With Guest Chatters Ms. Sharon Madere, CHBC and Ms. Nancy Williams, M.A., RVT, ACAAB It’s one thing to work with aggression in dogs. People can be seriously injured. It’s quite another to work with an animal that weighs over 1000 pounds and has a much greater potential to kill you than...
Perfect Pooches in Public Places
In this excerpt from her pet behavior advice column, The Teacher’s Pets, Dr. Megan Maxwell, CAAB, addresses a reader’s concerns that her own dogs’ behavior doesn’t meet standards she sees in other dogs in public settings. My husband and I were out for dinner recently when we noticed a...
Get With the Program, 2016! Clinical Animal Behavior Conference
December 9th – 11th, 2016; The Oquendo Center, Las Vegas, NV Register at AnimalBehaviorConference.com; Early bird pricing ends September 30th Spotlight On Sponsors CattleDog Publishing is the self-publishing company founded by the late Dr. Sophia Yin, named after her beloved family Cattle Dogs. She published The Small Animal Veterinary Nerdbook, Low Stress Handling, Restraint and Behavior...
Trainer's Ring, Fall 2016
21 September 2016 By Laura Monaco Torelli Welcome back to the Trainer’s Ring. Fall is here! This is my favorite time of the year. Gone are the days of hot, humid Chicago weather toward brisk temperatures and beautiful colors. My keen eyes have been watching dog dynamics all summer....
Microchip Pet Feeder
All sorts of new products designed to impact or improve our pets’ behavior are being advertised these days. Here is one with promise that I have seen lately. We welcome readers’ feedback – if you have used this product, share your experience in the comments section! The SureFeed Microchip...
Understanding and Addressing Food Guarding: The Case of Frogger
Frogger was a sleek and energetic German Shepherd puppy. His case exemplifies many food guarding cases I have seen so I will use his story to bring to light some of the causes of, and intervention options for, food guarding in dogs. Frogger was purchased from a breeder by...
Fall 2015 Resident Rounds
The behavior residents had a busy summer centered on the American Veterinary Medical Association’s Annual Convention held in Boston. Thursday was Resident’s Day which is a resident-only event focused on behavior specific training. This year Dr. Gerry Flannigan and Dr. Debbie Horwitz covered learning theory and current scientific research...
Conference Announcement: ASAT
ORCA presents: The 9th annual Art and Science of Animal Training Conference February 25-26, 2017 Dallas, Texas Speakers for the February 2017 conference: Dr. Peter Killeen, Ken Ramirez, Emily Larlham, Steve White, Alexandra Kurland, Dr. Paul Andronis, Barbara Heidenreich, Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz, and Karen Pryor. This year’s conference will have...
New Website Welcome
Welcome to the new website for AVSAB! Some of our blog posts have been transferred from the old website so you can get a sense of common content and themes. I encourage any readers of the blog to bring to my attention topics that they would like to see...
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