Category Archives: Training

As soon as you find your pet has any noise concerns, a veterinary visit and behavioural assessment should be considered. If your companion struggled during the fireworks, behaviour modifications should start as soon as you can following the new year, before the next November when it all starts again. This gives us the longest time…

Its ok to pay BIG wages! Think of your food or toys that you give your dog as their wages. Sometimes it's ok to give a bonus as it will help improve engagement for your dog! For example: If your dog gives you a simple easy recall with no distractions, you can give the normal…

Cooperative care is about choices for your pet. The choice for them to choose to participate for rewards, thus reducing the stress of the veterinary examination. It is not always possible to use these skills in every situation as during emergencies, choice might not be possible. However, if you dog has experienced these actions at…

For this answer it depends on you and your available times. We design all treatment plans around your pet, you and your family. If you can only do 5 mins, then your plan will be designed for 5 mins. If you can do 1 hour, we will plan for 1 hour.  Any training time will…

Here at Forrest Animal Behaviour, we use methods that are science based and ethical to your pet. This means we do not use aversive methods which cause physical or perceived pain or fear. We use training which is focused on maintaining the human-animal bond via, positive reinforcement, changing associations, environmental management and increasing communication. By…

This is where your pet might display "better" behaviour when exposed to more than one fear at once or after the fear is at a certain distance from them. However, this is not a "better" behaviour but actually a type of shut down response. For example, if you’re scared of spiders and one enters the…