Acadia Canine Academy™ Blog

As dog owners, our top priority is ensuring the safety and well-being of our furry friends. With technological advancements, our options...

Separation anxiety in dogs is a common issue where dogs become anxious when they are separated from their owners or left alone. I would...

Training can be highly beneficial for reactive dogs, as it can help them better manage their responses to triggers and improve their...

Submissive urination is a behavior observed in some dogs, especially puppies or dogs with timid or anxious temperaments. It usually...

Behaviors like fear, dominance, territoriality, or resource guarding are NOT true aggression, they are behavioral issues related to defense drive, another instinctual drive of the eight instinctual drives of all species.

You’ve decided to add a dog into your life, great! Owning a dog and raising that dog from a sweet little puppy can be such a rewarding...

Building trust with a nervous dog requires patience, consistency, and understanding. Depending on the severity of the nervous condition,...

When adopting a dog from an animal shelter, the best statement that addresses the experience is from the movie, Forest Gump.“It’s like a...

Anxiety is defined as a feeling of nervousness or unease. It is usually related to a specific event or an uncertain outcome of that event. When you think of anxiety, you might think of individuals that required therapy and anti-anxiety medication . You probably did not know that anxiety doesn't only affect humans. It definitely impacts man's best friend just as badly, and sometimes worse than humans.

I am convinced that veterinarians are the least educated on the diagnosis and treatment of this all-too-common affliction of canines. This is not my opinion, it is my learned experience over decades of interacting with canines and their owners and hearing owners’ experiences with their veterinarians combined with my own personal experience with veterinarians. I’ll give one example that speaks powerfully. In the 1990’s I was breeding German Shepherds of excellent genetics that

What treats the core cause of anxiety and/or panic is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or serotonin modulator . The one that I am most familiar with is a trade named Prozac, also known as Fluoxetine, its generic name. I do believe it is the longest marketed and researched/studied SSRI known to man. Prozac, also known by its generic name fluoxetine, was first patented by the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company on December 29, 1972. It was later approved by the

Dogs can experience symptoms similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), especially if they have been through a traumatic event such as abuse, neglect, or a natural disaster.

Although I am not a DVM, I am a Master Dog Trainer and Animal Behaviorist who has interacted with countless canines for over 30 years, many of which are afflicted with a genetic anomaly . It is my career experience with these all too many “spook” dogs that have made me decide to address this taboo subject that veterinarians may attempt to dispute out of their false pride.