I rescued an impulsive and reactive dog, and here's what I wish I'd known about how cortisol levels affect a dog's behavior.

Once the dogs were performing this task, the extinction phase began, and the gazing behavior was no longer rewarded in order to see how persistent the newly learned behavior was.

For example, the sheep-dog-associated gene EPHA5 has also been associated with human attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and anxiety-like behaviors in other mammals.

“Jackie is a wonderful trainer,” Pape says. “She is intuitive and knows a lot about animal behavior. She works with the dogs ...

Reinforcement There is a high chance that this is a learned behavior for your dog and that you may be inadvertently reinforcing their clingy ways. "We like it when our dogs seek us out.

A dog sneaks crouched through the room to a fallen treat, its eyes repeatedly checking the owner. Halfway to the fallen ...

I'm amazed at how willing Sparky, our dog, is to please my husband and me. Sometimes he slips up, but for the most part, he has learned to follow the simple commands we issue. Sit. Stay. Come. Get ...

A dog’s ability to play fetch and other activities with humans is a learned behavior that likely occurred over time after humans domesticated dogs from gray wolves 15,000 years ago.