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@darla331 My issues with considering balanced training comes from looking at the data from published, reputable academic papers and journals, not from some moral objection. As a scientist, it is my literal job to be able to read/analyze data, and if the prevailing science suggested that...

@emma43 I think it's pretty common, just something I didn't know as a first time owner. You have the dog in his crate/room and bring the guest into the house or the back yard. Give the guests your highest value treats and have them stand facing AWAY from where the dog is coming from, with...

@lunabeam Can you drive him to a park or something where you have more space? It sounds like you're walking him on a street or neighborhood or something where you absolutely won't be able to make any progress because of his trigger distance - he's going to be over threshold any time he sees a...

@chiere So, I don't presses the skills or expertise to spell out every single situation or hypothetical example you can find up with. I do think you're attributing a lot more human logic to this than dogs are capable of. I'm going to suggest two things and make one point. Do a bunch of...

@chiere So I'm sure others can/will answer this better than me, but the gist is that what you're referring you is known as "balanced" training, and it can lead to increased fear and a bunch of consequences down the line. Let's consider reactivity to other dogs because that's easiest to explain...

@simsons Looks like it's a lot of vets - there's a thread about fluoxetine pricing right now and a lot of people are paying even more insane amounts than the numbers I mentioned.

@simsons Believe it or not that wasn't the most expensive of the 3 vets I've been to. My original vet is in the bougie part of town in a fancy shopping center and quoted me $800 for an ultrasound on my cat. Because of that price, I found a new vet that was significantly cheaper. They did the...

@simsons Could be a location thing - I live in a very HCOL area so they may need to charge out the nose for meds to make enough money to afford rent/paying their employees. But I've been to 3 different vets in the area and they've all been around that same price, so I don't think it's my...

@jamiem Fluoxetine is about 3 dollars a month on Chewy and can be even cheaper from places like Costco. The trick is getting your Vet to write a prescription instead of just getting it from them - most vets will try to get you to buy it from them for something crazy like 60 bucks a month...

@ckm333 Thank you! Him behaving so well at the party is certainly the most confusing thing I've seen from him, but we are attempting to take advantage of that. His littermates are all an hour or further away, which is a rough car ride for him, but one of his sisters is going to stay with us...

@nt4maximusd Unfortunately covering the back windshield would be super dangerous unless you've got one of those fancy digital rear view mirrors, and even then I'm pretty sure it's still illegal? If you're willing to take her out of the trunk though and keep her in the back seat, we use magnetic...

Gonna try to keep this as concise as possible but I have a feeling this is going to get extremely long long, so I'm sorry in advance. Background on dog - Link is just over 7 months old. His mother was found pregnant in Mexico, and brought into the US to give birth. He was born in the house of...