by Niki Tudge | Feb 10, 2023 | Dog Trainers, Industry Oversight, Ponderings |
Just a Few Ramblings Regarding Ethics In The Pet Industry An excerpt from Pet Training and Behavior Consulting: A Model for Raising the Bar to Protect Professionals, Pets and Their People. It is our view that dog trainers, behavior consultants and professional pet...
by Niki Tudge | Oct 19, 2022 | Ponderings
Procrastination doesn’t just dampen our moods. It also takes a toll on our executive function. Moreover, the habit of procrastination makes us more likely to procrastinate in the future. Procrastinating over time weakens our executive function and makes overriding...
by Niki Tudge | Oct 13, 2022 | Pet Owners, Ponderings
Doogie and I walk together every day and run every other day. Doogie only ever runs 6 miles on roads, and then she goes home to snuffle mats and frozen Kongs while I clock up more miles. Doogie often prefers to walk. But whether we choose to walk or run, the focus is...
by Niki Tudge | Feb 6, 2022 | Ponderings
As pet industry professionals, we need to ask ourselves if we can relate to one or more of the following problems within our businesses: Difficulty in converting prospects to customers. Private training clients who start out “gung ho” and then fall off the program...
by Niki Tudge | Oct 12, 2021 | Ponderings |
Temple Grandin and Mark Deesing’s paper, “Distress in Animals: Is it Fear, Pain or Physical Stress?”, reviews the most current understanding of two of the most basic types of suffering – fear and pain – only to arrive at an unexpected...
by Niki Tudge | Oct 6, 2021 | Ponderings |
According to DogNostics Career Center (2018), dominance theory is used within the same species to predict the winner of a conflict when fighting over a specific, context-oriented resource. Scientifically, dominance only applies to two beings of the same species, thus...
