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People's improper actions cause behavior problems. There is a need to understand and apply interactive behavior with our companion dogs to solve or avoid these problems.
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Think Interactive multi-tasking
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Misconceptions about dogs influence how people supervise and interact with them and all too often, ignorance leads to injury. Unreported dog bites in children, University of Pennsylvania

Dogs provide danger signs or signals before an attack that the victims do not recognize nor respond to appropriately. One merely has to listen to a victim's or witness's attribution of the causes of a dog bite to discover how unaware the general public is of the danger signs that are associated with attacks by dogs.
Severe attacks by dogs, Clemson University

Further information is available from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) on dog behavior problems and their causes.
To clarify this issue from the INTERACTIVE BEHAVIOR / Partners & Protectors perspective,
HERE ARE OUR DEFINITIONS:

A lot of people use the words "dog behavior" and there is a lot of confusion as to what it means.

Training: a timed attention and immediate response exercise to what is required or requested through repetition for approximate 15 minute sessions. Short term situational memorization. Compliance to patterned drill or specific routine.

Pet Psychology: Observational and/or collective research and documentation of species perceived mental, motivational and/or behavioral characteristics. The application of clinical human re-direction methodology as therapeutic solution.

Clinical Pet Behavior: a variably applied combination of both training and pet psychology.

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We don't do training, not pet psychology
nor clinical pet behavior.
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What we do is:
Species Interactive Behavior©
Human and companion animal living together, acting and reacting. Ongoing environmental or real time teaching©. Practically applied cause and effect guidance creating habituation behavior within a given environment. BASED ON THE BELIEF THAT HABITS CREATE HABITS.

Teaching through and for trust, respect and deference. Continuous and environmentally ongoing leadership or parenting guidance. BASED ON THE BELIEF THAT PARENTING OR LEADERSHIP TAKES NO TIME OUTS.

Rehabilitation is based on human habit reversal re-creating response behavior© from the animal. BASED ON THE BELIEF THAT WE GET WHAT WE EARN.