SFVS News: Dr. Sophia Yin on Oven-Phobic Dog

SFVS’s Sophia Yin, DVM, recently answered a San Francisco Chronicle reader’s question in the paper’s Ask the Vet column.
The question: Why is my dog afraid of my oven? As soon as I turn it on, he bolts from the house and hides in the backyard. The oven, which is 20 years old, doesn’t make any [...]

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SFVS News: Sophia Yin, DVM on Dogs Afraid of the Car

In today’s Ask the Vet column, which runs every Wednesday and Saturday in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFVS animal behavior expert Sophia Yin, DVM, answers a reader’s question about a dog who has lost her love for car rides. The question:
Every morning, I take my two dogs for a drive in the car when I [...]

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Headlines: An Animal Behaviorist’s Take on Bo Obama

One of SFVS’s animal behaviorists, Sophia Yin, DVM, just posted an entry on her blog titled “Having a Puppy in the White House Can Be as Complicated as Foreign Policy.” Of course, we’ve all been hearing about the Portuguese water dog for months now. (The Washington Post even emailed a “breaking news alert” the other [...]

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SFVS News: Animal Behaviorist Dr. Sophia Yin Profiled in Vet Practice News

SFVS’s Sophia Yin, DVM, an animal behaviorist, is profiled in the March 2009 issue of Veterinary Practice News. An excerpt:
For a decade, Yin has built a cottage industry on animal behavior: She teaches her training methods to clients and their pets. She developed a dog-training system for the now-defunct Sharper Image, utilizing her positive-reinforcement method [...]

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SFVS News: SFVS’s Sophia Yin, DVM Quoted in “A Dog Howling Primer”

SFVS’s Sophia Yin, DVM, MS (Animal Behavior) was quoted in a recent article in “The Dog Daily” about dogs and howling: A Dog Howling Primer. The article discusses why dogs howl in the first place, along with some of the more “prolific” howlers (“hound dogs or Northern breeds, like Siberian huskies or Alaskan malamute”) and [...]

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SFVS News: Sophia Yin, DVM, on Animal Planet!

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BAY AREA ANIMAL BEHAVIORIST FEATURED IN ANIMAL PLANET’S DOGS 101/CATS 101 SERIES
(San Francisco, Calif.) – Local animal behaviorist Sophia Yin, DVM, MS, is featured in Animal Planet’s DOGS 101/CATS 101, a new series that airs Saturdays at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) as part of an all-new [...]

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Staff Spotlight: Q+A With Animal Behaviorist Sophia Yin, DVM

Our latest “Staff Spotlight” installment features Sophia Yin, DVM, who is one of SFVS’s animal behaviorists. Thanks so much, Dr. Yin, for your answers and photos/videos!
1. How does a person become an animal behaviorist?
Unfortunately, anyone can call him or herself an animal behaviorist even if they have virtually no experience with training or in [...]

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SFVS News: SF Chronicle’s Ask the Vet Features SFVS Behaviorist Sophia Yin

The July 19, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle featured a Q&A with SFVS veterinarian and animal behaviorist Sophia Yin. The question: My 4-year-old Lab has car anxiety. He’ll jump in, excited to go for a ride, but after a minute or so, he starts trembling and panting and puts his head down. I thought maybe it [...]

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Headlines: Pet Boomers?

A new website called Pet Boomers has some interesting information for pet owners who may be concerned about their aging cats and dogs. The site introduction reads: “New studies and statistics about the “Baby Boomer” generation dominate the headlines almost daily, but there is another population, the nation’s 45 million “Pet Boomers,” which is quietly [...]

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Headlines: Pet Drugs for Obesity, OCD, Separation Anxiety and the Rest

The New York Times Magazine has a (long) piece on the increasing practice of prescribing medications to animals for a variety of issues, from obesity to separation anxiety. The article notes that many scientists say that “the combination of new drug therapies and progressive training techniques can solve problems that in the past almost always [...]

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