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Essential Skills

How to Prepare Your Pet for Vacation

Vacations are supposed to feel like a break — but for a lot of pet parents, prepping for one just adds another item to an already overflowing to-do list. The good news? A little planning early on can make the whole thing feel a lot less chaotic.

Whether your pet is staying home with a sitter or coming along for the ride, this guide walks through exactly what to prepare — from routines and supplies to emergency plans and calming tools — so your trip actually feels like the break you need.

Emily Strong (she/they) July 27, 2026 No Comments

Essential Skills

Becoming Pet Harmony

Becoming Pet Harmony Every once in a while an inquiry hits our inbox from an aspiring trainer or behavior professional that asks us the best path to get into the field. Working in an unregulated field, where anyone can slap a title like “certified trainer,” “or “behaviorist,” on a business

Tiffany Holmes (she/they) January 26, 2026

Essential Skills

Learning Dog Body Language

Learning Dog Body Language I know we talk about it ALL OF THE TIME and for that I can make no apologies. It really is just that important. I don’t think I am going out on a limb when I say that understanding your dog’s body language is paramount to

MaryKaye Kendrick (she/her) January 19, 2026

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Essential Skills

Understanding Impostor Syndrome in Animal Behavior

Understanding Impostor Syndrome in Animal Behavior Ok, I have a serious question that is going to sound like a setup for a Jerry Seinfeld joke: what’s the deal with Impostor Syndrome, amirite?? It feels like everyone has it these days. It feels like it comes up in almost every conversation.

Emily Strong (she/they) January 12, 2026

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Essential Skills

Why the Best Trainers Always Go Back to Basics

Why the Best Trainers Always Go Back to Basics For those of you who aren’t familiar with the animal behavior industry, there’s a very well-known and influential trainer and consultant named Ken Ramirez who once said, “Advanced training is basic training done really well.” Even though this quote is well

Emily Strong (she/they) January 5, 2026

Essential Skills

How to Teach Your Dog to Calm Down

How to Teach Your Dog to Calm Down I would be remiss if I didn’t start this blog by stating how vital the skill of self-regulation is for our pets. The intensity and distress of a household in a constant state of hyperarousal is where I often feel the most

Pet Harmony Team December 29, 2025

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Essential Skills

7 Tips for Moving With Pets

7 Tips for Moving With Pets Big Change, Little Paws Moving is complicated. It can be exciting, and it can be terrifying. It can bring desired change and opportunity, and it also brings routine disruption, stress, and the unknown. My partner, our dogs, and myself have moved across the country

Ellen Yoakum (she/her) December 22, 2025

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Essential Skills

Navigating Transitions With Kids and Pets

Navigating Transitions With Kids and Pets This blog is coming at ya from Corinne: trainer, behavior consultant, former teacher, and (among many other things) mom of 3 (2 human, 1 fluffy). My dog is 9 and my kids are 3 and 5 years old and it feels like every 6

Corinne Collier (she/her) December 15, 2025

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Enrichment

Set it and Forget it: Enrichment Strategies for Busy Times

Set it and Forget it: Enrichment Strategies for Busy Times Cover image courtesy of Sam Pierce (Dognitive Behavior and Training) Life sure is funny. It seems like just yesterday that I was talking to you about preparing the household for the transition of returning to school and here we are

MaryKaye Kendrick (she/her) December 8, 2025

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Essential Skills

8 Tips for Dogs Who Won’t Get in Cars

8 Tips for Dogs Who Won’t Get in Cars Years ago, I worked as a behavior consultant at an animal sanctuary. One of the skills that the facility thought was super important was for their dogs to feel comfortable getting into a car, to the point where it had a

Allie Bender (she/her) December 1, 2025

Human Enrichment

This Isn’t a Normal Time. Let’s Talk About It.

This Isn’t a Normal Time. Let’s Talk About It. It’s dark out there. I mean both literally (hello, The Long Dark of Seattle) and figuratively. We had an entirely different topic slated for this blog post, but as I write it on October 31st, it feels tone deaf. So, I’m

Ellen Yoakum (she/her) November 24, 2025

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Behavior Problems

Troubleshooting Pet Behavior

Troubleshooting Pet Behavior: How to Work Smarter, Not Harder Arrgghhhh! What is going on?! Why is my pet doing this thing they’ve never done before?! Hang in there buddy, take a breath. You likely already have the skills to work through this– or at least to get you started on

Corinne Collier (she/her) November 17, 2025

Behavior Problems

Spicy Dogs, Big Lessons

Spicy Dogs, Big Lessons: Finding Gratitude in Daily Life With a Behavior Case Dog If you have read any of the blogs I have written, you have undoubtedly had to read through my many accounts with my highly opinionated, big-feels girl Olivia. I talk about her so frequently because so

Claire Horvat (she/her) November 10, 2025

Recent Blog Posts

How to Prepare Your Pet for Vacation

Becoming Pet Harmony

Learning Dog Body Language

Understanding Impostor Syndrome in Animal Behavior

Why the Best Trainers Always Go Back to Basics

How to Teach Your Dog to Calm Down

7 Tips for Moving With Pets

Navigating Transitions With Kids and Pets

Set it and Forget it: Enrichment Strategies for Busy Times

8 Tips for Dogs Who Won’t Get in Cars

This Isn’t a Normal Time. Let’s Talk About It.

Troubleshooting Pet Behavior

Spicy Dogs, Big Lessons

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