Your Puppy Got Worse at Nine Months. Which Problems Fix Themselves, and Which Don’t
Most adolescent dog problems peak around twelve months and fall away by eighteen. Three do not. Here is how to tell which kind you are looking at.

Most adolescent dog problems peak around twelve months and fall away by eighteen. Three do not. Here is how to tell which kind you are looking at.

A treat shown before the behaviour is a bribe. One that appears after is a wage. Why the food became part of the cue, and the two-week fix.

A dog who is faultless in the kitchen and deaf in the park isn’t being defiant. Research on how dogs generalise — and one striking finding about adolescence — explains what’s really happening, and what fixes it.