The purpose of this study was to explore owners' perception of"problematic" from"undesirable" their dogs' behaviors, separating behaviors, and to investigate whether and how these perceptions were correlated with the way the owner addressed the behavior. behaviors," we meant behaviors that the owners Wilh"undesirable found unpleasant or annoying, whereas with"problematic behaviors," we meant behaviors that posed a problem, in that the owners found them difficulttoovercome examined whether orsolve.Wealso owners' perceptions, together with other selected owner and dog cognitive, and behavioral variables, were significantly demographic, problematic behavior. associated with a dog's potentially