Posts Tagged ‘Eustress’
Sequential Overload in Pets
Stress isn’t all bad. Stress is needed to avoid potential dangers; it’s part of animals’ natural responses to threats: if they don’t respond to threats in nature, they don’t survive! Some level of good stress (eustress) is even needed for learning. Learn more in this blog on The Canine Learning Stress-O-Meter. Certainly, too…
Read MoreHow Much Stress Is Too Much Stress?
In the force free training world (aka positive reinforcement), we try to minimize the amount of stress our pets experience during training. But in order to answer how much stress is too much stress, we must first understand a little bit more about “stress.” Types of Stress There are two types of stress an…
Read More