Resources for Clients:
For dogs with behavioral issues, such as aggression, fear-biting, separation anxiety, etc... one of the number one tools we can use to help alleviate the issues is to engage your dog in consistent one-on-one training. If a certified dog trainer is outside of your budget financially or time-wise -- check out the links below to some very useful training guides. There are guides for specific problems, as well as guides for a basic program.
Behavioral Training Protocols
By Dr. Karen L. Overall Clinical Behavioral Medicine for Small Animals, 1997
Below are excerpts from Karen Overall's book.
Click on each link to read a PDF from each section.
- B-1 Protocol for Deference: Basic Program
- B-2 Protocol for Relaxation: Behavior Modification Tier 1
- B-3 Behavior Modification Tier 2: Protocol for Desensitizing Dominantly Aggressive Dogs
- B-4 Behavior Modification Tier 2: Protocol for Desensitization and Counterconditioning Using Gradual Departures
- B-5 Protocol for Teaching Your Dog to Uncouple Departures and Departure Cues
- B-6 Tier 2: Protocol for Desensitizing and Counterconditioning a Dog (or Cat) from Approaches from Strangers
- B-7 Tier 2: Protocol for Desensitizing and Counterconditioning Dogs to Relinquish Objects
- B-8 Tier 2: Protocol for Desensitization and Counterconditioning to Noises and Activities that Occur by the Door
- B-9 Protocol for Dogs With Protective and/or Territorial Aggression
- B-10 Protocol for Dogs With Interdog Aggression
- B-11 Protocol for Dogs With Dominance Aggression
- B-12 Protocol for Treating and Preventing Attention-Seeking Behavior
- B-13 Protocol Basic Manners - Housebreaking
- B-14 Protocol Introduce New Pet to Household Pets
- B-15 Protocol Cats with Elimination Disorders
- B-16 Protocol for Introducing a New Baby and a Pet
- B-17 Protocol for Dogs with Separation Anxiety
- B-18 Protocol for Dogs with Fearful Aggression
- B-19 Protocol for Cats with Intercat Aggression
- B-20 Protocol for Cats with Play Aggression
- B-21 Protocol for Redirected Aggression in Cats (and Dogs)
- B-22 Protocol for Status-Related Aggression in Cats
- B-23 Protocol for Treating Fearful Behavior in Cats and Dogs
- B-24 Protocol for Dogs and Interactions with Food, Rawhide, Biscuits and Bones
- B-25 Protocol for Handling and Surviving Aggressive Events
- B-26 Protocol for Teaching Children (and Adults) to Play with Dogs and Cats
- B-27 Protocol for Choosing Collars, Head Collars, and Harnesses
- B-28 Protocol for Cats with Pica or Inappropriate Ingestion Conditions Including Wool Sucking
- B-29 Protocol for Cats with Barbering, Licking, or Over-grooming Conditions