Welcome to The Pet Guardian Academy, a curated collection of articles, guides, and resources written personally by Angie Morin to help you truly understand your pet. Each piece is thoughtfully crafted to provide practical, meaningful, and insightful information, empowering you to strengthen the bond, emotional well-being, and happiness of your beloved companion. From decoding behavior and emotional cues to […]
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Guardians shut down their animals efforts to communicate frequently. They unintentionally discourage their animals from communicating and then wonder why their animals do “bad” things. Animals will use a growl, a hiss, ears back, showing teeth, etc.. as a warning that theyre uncomfortable and their limits are being pushed. As humans we can use words
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Animals develop and maintain friendships just like we do as humans. They need socialization beyond humans. These relationships help them learn and maintain boundaries and cues, and help with emotional support. They develop love and strong bonds with others. Many talk to me about their friends. They make each other happy. They comfort each other.
The world we live in expects way too much of domestic animals. We ask them to be something other than what they are because our world is human centered. We do this by asking them NOT to engage in behaviors that ARE who they are (dogs, cats, horses, etc…). Why? Because those behaviors don’t line
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I see a lot of posts about cats not coming home, or dogs not having recall once off leash. Though we try to control animals they have free will. When they don’t come back it’s not always personal. Sometimes they feel too confined. Dogs for example – if they rarely get off leash, when they
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Here’s a simple thing you can add to your daily routine to show your pets more love. Tell them what you love about them. Or recognize something they do that you like. It’s basically giving you pet a compliment each day. We all like to get compliments, animals are no different. We often correct them
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Animals that bite, growl, scratch, buck, rear, kick or bolt are often labeled as dangerous or difficult. These animals are NOT that at all. They are usually the most sensitive animals. These animals resort to these behaviors, which are forms of communication, because their more subtle, polite ways of communicating to tell you something is
Animals AMAZE me because they are so smart. Think about how much they are asked to adapt to a human world. And they do. But let me tell you a few things they dont understand, and never will. * Jokes. Playing jokes on pets causes distrust and confusion. This applies to every pet in every
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Let’s talk about “Yes” And “ No”. We can teach our animals these words just like we teach “sit”, “stay”, Etc. Most humans use “No” very assertively, loudly, aggressively, with a deep (mean) voice, etc… This is unnecessary and just scares your pet. Your pet doesn’t learn what the word “No” means, they just know
When animals are reactive (dogs, cats, horses, goats), correction is not going to yield the fastest results. Exposure is not going to lead the fastest results. What do these animals need? They are reacting out of emotion. When you are emotional and someone tells you to “calm down”, does that work? Nope. If someone were
