Comments on: Who’s Shaping Who?

By: Marcella

Marcella — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:29:08 +0000

Wow-totally rings true. I can definitely relate to this-guilty as charged. It’s even more interesting to read while taking Psychology this year and getting more into depth with all of these things. Gotta love how smart dogs are. I’m a firm believer that they are most definitely smarter than humans-and you’ve proven it!!!

By: Sharon Normandin

Sharon Normandin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:52:00 +0000

hmm, just read my last post and realized that my grammar and sentence structure leaves a lot to be desired with respect to conveying my meaning.

My suggestion was that you write a humorous book based on Who’s Shaping Who, and solicit anecdotes from the readers of your blog, or other students, and for those stories that you choose to incorporate into your book, provide a voucher for one free session at your skills or handling camps for the PERSON providing the tales, rather than for the “tales” themselves, as I seem to have stated earlier.

By: Sharon Normandin

Sharon Normandin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:43:47 +0000

This is great, Susan! I can see a book, a somewhat humorous book on the foibles of training. Why don’t you get input from the readers, and those tales that you choose to include in a book get one free session at one of your skills or handling camps, in lieu of royalties?

I’m grateful that I can take weekly classes with Tracy Sklenar, who is great at catching people (like me) who are inadvertently allowing their dogs to shape their handling and training behaviour. Doesn’t prevent it, but at least it does make me aware of it, and I can keep trying . . .

By: Jerry Burns

Jerry Burns — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:13:47 +0000

Our Cocker Spaniel will pick up her baby during the middle of the day on a weekend if we are home and run towards our bedroom. It her way of telling us its time for a nap. Sometime we follow other times we don’t but she tries to get our attention with a soulful pout if we don’t follow her.

By: Rachelle

Rachelle — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:32:17 +0000

Oh so VERY true! So, now that we all know what they do and how they do it, how do we fix it with our current dogs and not allow it to happen with our future dogs??? Thanks! (fixed the wrong know/now…I give up!)

By: Rachelle

Rachelle — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:31:34 +0000

Oh so VERY true! So, know that we all now what they do and how they do it, how do we fix it with our current dogs and not allow it to happen with our future dogs??? Thanks! (typo in last comment, sorry)

By: Rachelle

Rachelle — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:30:18 +0000

Oh so VERY true! So, now that we all now what they do and how they do it, how do we fix it with our current dogs and not allow it to happen with our future dogs??? Thanks!

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:19:19 +0000

I am sooo guilty! My JRT has by number on how to get a cuddle . And my little mix girl….. she can get me to jump through hoops.
Unbeknowst to them, things are about to change! hahahahahaaa

By: Trudie

Trudie — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:59:55 +0000

DE-caf ! Love this puppy photo, what a cookie !
We’ve been shaped! anticipating next installment, the more we wait the more we keep coming back.
Thanks for video link, we’ll be watching and cheering for you!

By: Jenny Ruth Yasi

Jenny Ruth Yasi — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:09:19 +0000

Very funny! I have a bichon whose intelligence should be measured, not by how many repetitions it takes for him to learn something, but for how many repetitions it takes for him to NOT learn something! He finds it incredibly reinforcing to see what I will do about THAT! Dogs crack me up.