Kyla's Pawtastic Dog Training LLC

04/26/2026

Please help!
Spread the word that putting hands in food bowls and pulling food away from dogs INCREASES aggressive behavior.
Dropping food in the bowl as you walk by DECREASES aggressive behavior. Now we even have research to support this. Please help get the word out.
Ref: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167587717301241

03/28/2026

Trying to get my health back! Sorry

03/03/2026

03/03/2026

03/03/2026

Why won’t they switch off?
Because they don’t actually know how.

“Hey, you can’t reinforce an emotion.”
Correct.
But here’s the real kicker.

You don’t reinforce the feeling.
You reinforce the behaviours that make that feeling possible.

Stillness.
Disengaging.
Resting.

Switching off isn’t automatic.
Some dogs rehearse alertness and movement all day long.
Very few practice settling.

So we shape the environment and then calm has space to pop it’s head up (or actually down!)

What is reinforced is repeated and if it’s repeated often enough, settling and staying still stops being a rarity.

It becomes the “norm”.