Behaviorist’s Analysis of a Video of a Boxer Puppy Greeting Cows
I’ve read this blog post several times and I love it more every time I do. The Bark behaviorist, Karen London, PhD, CAAB, starts out by describing the ideal dog for trainers to bring to puppy class to let fearful pups have a good experience with an adult dog. She explains how this is a tall order requiring an emotionally and socially stable dog. As an example, she gives a play-by-play analysis of a video of a 6-mth old boxer pup greeting a herd of cows. The dog and owner are amazing! As you can see from the photo, the cows are huge; I get nervous just watching! What if the cows had spooked and stampeded right over them!?! Anyways, that didn’t happen and it is an excellent example of what a confident, stable animal looks like. It’s so rare that we see these types of animals, I think we forget!
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