At Helping Fido, Dr. Suzanne Hetts and Dr. Dan Estep provide you with the information you need to better understand your dog’s behavior and prevent and resolve behavior problems.  We are Certified Applied Animal Behaviorists (CAABs) with over 25 years of experience working with people and their pets. 

Dr. Estep is a former college professor  in psychology at the University of Georgia and Dr. Hetts created the Behavior Help-Line at the Denver Dumb Friends League (a widely known private animal shelter) and  provided behavior services at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Colorado State University.  We’ve helped hundreds of pet owners improve their pets’ behavior, lectured on four continents to pet professionals, consulted with major corporations in the pet industry and with attorneys regarding serious  and even fatal dog bite cases.   For more information about our backgrounds, visit the About Us page on AnimalBehaviorAssociates.com

We are committed to providing resources for dog owners worldwide who need help raising a well behaved, behaviorally healthy dog.  Dogs need more feedback from their owners about what they are doing RIGHT rather than so much focus on what they are doing WRONG.  And contrary to popular beliefs that dogs are social climbers and will take any opportunity to be the boss.  Instead through 15, 000 years of domestication they are predisposed to be subordinate to us. 

Read what the most well respected expert on wolf behavior in the world - Dr. David Mech – has to say about  mis-understandings of “dominance” and “alpha” ideas. 

The materials you”ll find on Helping Fido focus NOT on how you can get your dog to STOP doing what you don’t like but instead how you can get your dog to do what you want so you can reward her for the right behavior.  Start by registering for our FREE Behavior and Training Audio tips - bi-weekly messages that help you have a better behaved, happier dog.

If your dog is new to your home, watch our WelcomeYourDog videos so you can prevent the three most common problems new owners encounter.  We want to help you and your Fido get started off on the right paw together!