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Help Pets Overcome Their Fears with Counterconditioning


If our pet doesn’t like something that we need them to tolerate, like vet care or grooming, we need to help convince them it’s worth it. Focus on Feelings We spend a lot of time training our animals’ behaviors (stationing, picking up feet), but sometimes the problem is emotional (fear, stress). We want to approach these situations from a more classical psychology perspective. It’s important to start by making the thing they dislike as small and mild as possible. So, whether you make it quieter, smaller, slower, or further away,… Continued