The DogSmith Blog

When developing a behavior change program for barking problems in dogs we first need to complete a functional assessment. The functional assessment will help us identify the immediate antecedents and the distant antecedents, the motivating operations and setting events. The functional assessment will reveal the behavior postcedents, in particular the consequences, those responsible for maintaining [...]

In the 19th century Darwin exposed the world to his concept of evolution in a time when his ideas were considered a threat to the social and political order.  Darwin’s breakthrough research presented that species have the ability to adapt to changes in their world through a process he called natural selection. Darwin noted that [...]