OhMyDog.Rocks: Behaviour
Tell me what your dog does.Then tell me what you do.
A behaviour consult opens with those two questions, in that order. 7 of the 32 cases written up here arrived as a question from a dog parent who had run out of ideas, and in almost every one, the answer that had to change was the second.
32 cases157 questions answered211 minutes in total
Behaviour intake
32 of 32 cases
1What does your dog do?
The thing you would say first if you rang me about it.
2When does it happen?
Behaviour is a response to a moment. The moment narrows it faster than the behaviour does.
3In your own words
Optional. Searches every case, including the questions other parents asked.
Nothing here is submitted, stored or sent anywhere
The casebook
- Case B-24Aug 2026
Teaching a Dog to Be Alone: Start at Seconds, Not Hours
Being left alone is unnatural for a social animal and no dog is born able to do it. The training is simple, slow, and almost everyone starts at a duration their dog cannot cope with.
9 min5 questions answered
- Case B-25Aug 2026
Excessive Barking: Find Out Which Bark It Is Before You Try to Stop It
Barking is not one behaviour. Alarm, demand, boredom, frustration and distress barking need opposite responses, and the wrong one reliably makes things louder.
9 min5 questions answered
- Case B-26Aug 2026
Your Dog Pulls Because Pulling Works: How to Stop It Without a Choke Chain
Every walk where your dog pulls and still moves forward is a training session teaching it to pull. The fix is boring, unglamorous, and it works, and it does not involve pain.
9 min5 questions answered
- Case B-27Aug 2026
Diwali With a Frightened Dog: What Actually Helps, and What to Start Two Months Early
You cannot reassure a dog out of noise phobia on the night. What you can do is prepare the room, prepare the dog, and know which of the popular remedies are useless, or dangerous.
9 min5 questions answered
- Case B-28Aug 2026
Puppy Biting: Your Puppy Is Not Aggressive, and Yelping Probably Made It Worse
Mouthing is how puppies learn where their teeth end. The problem is almost never the biting itself. It is that the household keeps rewarding it, and that the puppy is exhausted.
8 min5 questions answered
- Case B-29Aug 2026
The Socialisation Window Closes at 16 Weeks, and Waiting for the Last Vaccine Costs More Than It Saves
The period that shapes what your dog finds normal for life is largely over by four months. Most Indian puppies spend all of it indoors, waiting for a vaccination schedule to finish.
9 min5 questions answered
- Case B-30Aug 2026
Recall: Your Dog Isn't Ignoring You, You Poisoned the Word
If coming back has ever led to a bath, a lead clipped on, or a telling-off, your dog has learned exactly what the word predicts. Rebuild it with a new word and never punish a return.
8 min5 questions answered
- Case B-31Aug 2026
Resource Guarding: Why Taking the Bowl Away Made It Worse
Guarding is not dominance. It is a dog who has learned that people approaching valuable things means losing them. The standard advice creates the problem it claims to prevent.
9 min5 questions answered
- Case B-32Aug 2026
Two Dogs Fighting in the Same House: Stop Managing the Fights and Start Removing the Triggers
Household dog fights almost always happen over something, in a predictable place, at a predictable moment. Find the pattern and most of the fighting disappears before any training starts.
9 min5 questions answered
- Case B-23Jun 2026
Why Does My Dog Go Crazy at Drum Beats? Understanding Sound-Triggered Arousal
Your dog hears a dhol or drum beat and suddenly they're jumping on furniture, running in circles, barking like mad on the leash. This isn't fear. It's pure excitement, and it comes from your dog's hunting brain.
6 min5 questions answered
- Case B-22Jun 2026
3 Things Most Dog Parents Get Wrong About Training (And What Actually Works)
Your dog isn't stubborn. Your dog has a 2-minute memory. Understanding how dogs actually learn changes everything about how you train them.
8 min3 questions answered
- Case B-21Jun 2023
Understanding Puppy Behavior and Fostering Better Relationships at OhMyDog Academy
2-3 month old puppy barking excessively, jumping at the food bowl, and overwhelming older dog? The OhMyDog approach to shaping positive puppy behavior from day one.
3 min5 questions answered
- Case B-20Jun 2023
How to Stop Your Dog from Jumping on People: Channeling Their Energy for Calmness and Harmony
Tired of your dog jumping on everyone? The fix is not punishment. It's channeling your dog's energy through calm, consistent interactions that transform greetings.
3 min5 questions answered
- Case B-19May 2023
Helping Your Dog Overcome Leash Excitement: A Guide for Happy Walks!
Dog jumping like a kangaroo when the leash comes out? This step-by-step training approach teaches dogs to associate the leash with calm, not chaos.
3 min5 questions answered
- Case B-18May 2023
Building Confidence in Your Shy and Insecure Dog
29% of dogs show signs of fearfulness toward strangers. Here's how to build real confidence in your shy or insecure dog, without reinforcing the fear.
7 min5 questions answered
- Case B-17May 2023
Why Dogs Become Destructive and How to Stop It
Dogs chew furniture, bark all day, and destroy things when they lack structure and stimulation, not because they are bad. Here's exactly what to add to fix it.
4 min5 questions answered
- Case B-16May 2023
Why Dogs Bite Their Own Humans: Understanding Dog Psychology for Better Communication
Your dog biting you is never random or malicious. It's communication that got missed. Learn the warning ladder, common triggers, and how to rebuild trust.
7 min5 questions answered
- Case B-15Apr 2023
The 3-Step Framework to Raise a Calm, Confident Dog (Sunny Luthra's Method)
Most dog behavioral issues share one root: a dog never taught to self-regulate. This 3-step framework from dog behaviourist Sunny Luthra addresses that root, not symptoms.
7 min5 questions answered
- Case B-14Jun 2022
Separation Anxiety Rehabilitation & Prevention Blueprint
The complete blueprint to prevent or rehabilitate separation anxiety in dogs, covering 5 confidence rituals, energy release, and desensitization in one guide.
15 min5 questions answered
- Case B-13Jan 2022
Sometimes he becomes aggressive when he sees some dogs and bite me
A dog parent’s question, in their words, answered by Sunny Luthra
Your dog bites you on the leash when it sees other dogs. This is redirect biting, here's why it happens and three changes that stop it fast.
7 min5 questions answered
- Case B-11Dec 2021
Follow this and your dog will never develop separation anxiety...
No dog is born with separation anxiety. It's created by human behavior. Stop these 3 behaviors now to raise a calm, confident puppy who handles alone time.
5 min5 questions answered
- Case B-12Dec 2021
The Most Common Dog Problems Don't Exist in Nature (And That Should Stop Us in Our Tracks)
Separation anxiety, hyperactivity, leash reactivity, these problems plague pet dogs worldwide, yet free-roaming dogs show almost none of them. Here's what that contrast reveals.
8 min5 questions answered
- Case B-10Dec 2021
WHY we are seeing so many behavioural issues like fear, hyperactivity and aggression developing in our dogs?
No dog is born aggressive or fearful, these behaviors develop when humans apply human psychology to a dog's mind. Sunny Luthra explains the root cause with 3 real examples.
5 min5 questions answered
- Case B-09Dec 2021
My dog constantly tries to eat things from the ground when we go for a walk
A dog parent’s question, in their words, answered by Sunny Luthra
Scavenging on walks is natural dog behaviour, but streets are genuinely dangerous. Here's how to channel the instinct safely without suppressing it.
7 min4 questions answered
- Case B-08Nov 2021
I left my indie alone due to my work he start crying and destroying things and scratching the door
A dog parent’s question, in their words, answered by Sunny Luthra
Your indie dog howls, scratches the door, and destroys things when you leave for work? Sunny Luthra's 7-step process trains dogs to stay calm alone, no force needed.
3 min5 questions answered
- Case B-07Nov 2021
The older one growls on her sister whenever she likes for no reason..
A dog parent’s question, in their words, answered by Sunny Luthra
Older dog growling at the younger dog in the house for no apparent reason? Unearned attention creates this, and a structured walk together is the first fix.
2 min5 questions answered
- Case B-01Oct 2021
How to stop my dog from jumping on my guests?
A dog parent’s question, in their words, answered by Sunny Luthra
Dog jumping on guests is a human behavior problem, not a dog problem. Sunny Luthra explains why nurturing calmness stops jumping within 2-3 days.
3 min5 questions answered
- Case B-02Oct 2021
My dog is becoming aggressive towards...
A dog parent’s question, in their words, answered by Sunny Luthra
Dog aggression is never the actual issue. It is always a symptom of an underlying cause. Sunny Luthra explains the two types of aggression and how leadership resolves both.
6 min5 questions answered
- Case B-03Oct 2021
Separation Anxiety in Dogs Is a Human-Influenced Behaviour
Up to 56% of pet dogs show signs of separation anxiety, yet in nature, dogs in packs never experience it. Here's why humans create this condition and three steps to reverse it.
8 min6 questions answered
- Case B-04Oct 2021
Separation anxiety in dogs!
Dog howling, destroying furniture, scratching doors when left alone? Sunny Luthra explains what causes separation anxiety and a proven 3-step process to fix it.
5 min5 questions answered
- Case B-05Oct 2021
Stray dogs getting aggressive, chase vehicles, and bark the whole night!!!
A dog parent’s question, in their words, answered by Sunny Luthra
Stray dogs barking all night, chasing cars, and getting aggressive? Sunny Luthra explains why wrong feeding behavior causes this, and how feeders can fix it.
3 min5 questions answered
- Case B-06Oct 2021
Why do dogs develop behavioral issues? (Aggression, hyperactivity, phobias, etc. etc.)
Over 40% of dog owners report behavioral problems in their pets. Here's why aggression, hyperactivity, and phobias actually develop, and what to do about it.
7 min4 questions answered
What a written case cannot do
It cannot watch your dog. Almost every case in this book turned on something the parent had not thought to mention, the pitch of a voice at the door, who feeds first, how the lead is held on the way out. A page can describe the pattern it has seen twenty times. It cannot see yours.
So read these as a way to understand what is happening, not as a protocol to run at your dog. The instruction that matters in most of them is addressed to you and not to him, and that is not a turn of phrase. It is where the change actually comes from.
Three situations belong with a behaviourist in the room rather than with a page: a bite that broke skin, a dog guarding food or a place from the people who live there, and any of this in a home with a small child. There is no shame in any of the three and they are all workable. They are just not workable from here.
About this casebook
Why is this page a form?
Because it is the shape the answer already has. A behaviour consult opens by asking what the dog does and when it happens, and those two answers narrow 32 cases to two or three faster than any list of categories would. It is a form only in its layout. There is no submit button and nothing to fill in wrongly.
Do you keep what I tick?
No. Nothing on the sheet is submitted, stored or sent anywhere. The answers live in the address bar so that a link like /behavior?does=alone can be shared with someone who needs it and the back button behaves. That is the whole of it. There is no email field, no account and no tracking of what you picked.
My dog does three of these at once. Which do I choose?
Whichever is worst to live with today, then read the case on the second one afterwards. That is not a compromise: a dog who jumps, pulls and cannot be left alone is usually showing you one thing three ways, and most of these cases end up in the same place regardless of which door you came through.
Why do some of these read like they were typed in a hurry?
Because they were. 7 of these cases arrived as a message from a dog parent, and where that happened the question is quoted exactly as it was sent, spelling, trailing dots, exclamation marks and all. Cleaning them up would make them read better and mean less. They are testimony, and the point of keeping them intact is that you may recognise yourself in one.
Is reading a case the same as having a consult?
No, and the difference is usually the detail nobody thought to mention, who feeds first, how the lead is held on the way out, the pitch of a voice at the door. A case describes a pattern seen many times over. It cannot watch your dog, and it is at its most useful as a way of understanding what is happening rather than as a protocol to run.
When should I stop reading and call someone?
If there has been a bite that broke skin, if your dog is guarding food or a place from the people who live in the house, or if any of this is happening in a home with a small child. All three are workable and none of them are workable from a page. Everything else here is a reasonable place to start.