Pat Miller, CBCC-KA, CPDT-KA, and fellow trainers agree they are seeing more dogs with fear-related behaviors. Whatever the reason, she says it’s important to understand the difference among the closely related behaviors of fear, phobia and anxiety.
Miller discusses fear prevention, pharmaceuticals, ways to modify fear-related behaviors and more.
Source: Whole Dog Journal, November 15, 2018. Link. Miller discusses counterconditioning and desensitization as well as targeting methods to desensitize individual dog’s fears.