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Punishment: Pros and Cons

Some great comments from yesterday's post. Here is the kicker though, not all dogs that are trained with positive punishment will cower in fear or tuck their tail oreven dislike training.  The truth is, a very skill trainer that has brilliant timing can produce a [...]

2010-04-01T12:53:13-04:00April 2nd, 2010|16 Comments

“There is a Better Way . . . Find it!”

Everyone who does it, can sight (what they feel is) a valid reason for using positive (often physical) punishment in their dog training.   Many avenues of dog training still justify their choice of using physical punishment but claiming it is necessary. The truth is everyone [...]

2010-04-01T08:18:45-04:00April 1st, 2010|33 Comments

My Latest New Habit

I have always been driven by the need to improve; myself, my dogs, my students, the world, whatever. Recent I have taken up a new habit which I would like to share because it has been a good one for me.  On and off in [...]

2020-02-05T23:31:13-04:00March 31st, 2010|9 Comments

Creating a Learning Environment

It was hard to leave home again last Wednesday to head to my current teaching post in Finland, especially hard to leave Buzzy. Although he is much better I can’t help but feel the stress of me leaving may be contributing to his distress, but [...]

2018-03-05T16:41:35-04:00March 28th, 2010|7 Comments
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