Most advice about anxious dogs is reactive. Something goes wrong, and you address it. Fireworks arrive, so you build a den. The dog reacts on a walk, so you start counter-conditioning. All of it is worth doing, and all of it is downstream of a more useful question: what makes a household one where a dog tends to be calm in the first place? Because … Continue reading Building a Calm Household: Routine, Rest and Enrichment for Dogs