Case Histories

January 1999 Issue

One Holistic Dog Behavior Consultants Opinion

A Golden Retriever – and his family – learns how to keep cool at the door.

As a holistic behavior consultant, I believe that most problems people experience with their dogs are not really dog problems but rather communication problems. Dogs don’t have problems being dogs; they have problems being dogs who live with humans. Most humans don’t even know how to communicate with each other! Every interaction you have with a dog teaches the dog something about living with a human.

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