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Oct
Keeping Your Dog Calm on Halloween Night: A Behavior Analyst's Playbook
If you've got a dog who loses their mind at the doorbell, Halloween is basically their Super Bowl — except nobody's rooting for the chaos. The bell rings fifty times in three hours. Strangers in costumes appear at your front door. The whole house smells like chocolate. As a board-certified behavior analyst (and a dog dad), I see Halloween the same way I see any tough behavioral moment: it's not your dog being "bad." It's your dog doing exactly what dogs do when the environment gets unpredictable — they're reacting to stimuli, and nobody's ever shown them a better play.... Read more