Archive: September, 2009
Grad Skills Camp, a big success!
First of all a very special thanks to all of you who demonstrated your generosity by donating to the Valencia children in Vancouver (please see Friday’s blog post). No this was not a scam, no my blog had not been hi-jacked, yes this is a terrible tragedy and yes I am very proud of my [...]
Read moreCan You Help?
Today’s blog is not dog training related nor even dog related. I would like to relay an email I received from my sister in Vancouver on Wednesday morning. In the midst of supper on Tuesday evening my sister’s oldest son received a phone call from his 16 year old best friend, who was at the police station. [...]
Read moreWhen Clicking Goes Wrong
To follow up on yesterday’s post today I will describe some lulu screw ups caused by my disrespect of the power of the clicker. To quote Bob Bailey “What you click is what you get.” Now this sounds pretty simple but you really need to think about every single click you make; what the [...]
Read moreTo Click or Not to Click, that is the Question
One of the things I am asked about by newcomers to our program is why we do not use a clicker very much. After-all, my website is www.clickerdogs.com you know! Since I registered that website ten or more years ago my training has evolved quite a bit. Possibly if I had register my website today [...]
Read moreWorld Championship Wrap Up
I am sitting at the airport Monday morning waiting to board our plane back home. Our 2nd FCI Championship experience is over. I will post some of my runs later but unfortunately I haven’t been able to see my last run as it was accidentally not recorded with my camera. No medals to come home [...]
Read moreDo the Brick Walls Get You?
Thanks to all of you for your candid comments when owning up to being shaped by your dog. Loads of funny stories that is for certain. Hopefully you will also consider how to make changes to your daily routine to prevent future issues with your clever dogs . . . but maybe not! Today [...]
Read moreFCI Worlds Championships Start Today!
To honour of all of my awesome teammates rockin’ it at the FCI World Championships in Dornbirn, Austria this weekend I thought I would post this awesome video. Thanks Kim for sending it my way. Even if you aren’t Canadian, I think you will find it is a fun video. The championships start today G-O-Canada [...]
Read moreWho’s Shaping Me?
Isn’t it funny how all of these posts on dogs shaping people have ended up having picture of a terrier with them. And not coincidentally many of your comments are about Jack Russell Terriers! Hmm, yes indeed Terriers are just masterful at shaping their people. It is because they are so brilliant and have a tenacity that [...]
Read moreWho’s Shaping Who Two
Carrying on from yesterday’s post here are some more ways dogs have learned to shape their humans. Many dogs learn how effective hunger strikes can be when shaping a human. People can’t stand to watch a dog miss a meal. The moment a dog turns up his nose to his routine breakfast 9 times out [...]
Read moreWho’s Shaping Who?
It is fascinating to me how this shaping stuff works. Here we have one animal (ideally you) providing reinforcement in order to get another animal (say your dog) to do what you want him to do. Shaping really works. Why? Because reinforcement builds behaviour. But what I have come to notice that there is more [...]
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