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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Home from Finland late yesterday. John and I went out for supper then I went to bed at 7:30 and didn't wake up until 5 AM. I think I needed the rest. Normally I am a very light sleeper, last night I don't remember John [...]
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 [...]
Okay since I wrote about asking John to lie to me yesterday I thought I would share with you information about a presenter I met at Tony Robbin's workshop in Orlando a few weeks ago. His name is Gary King. He had a unique presentation [...]
So John and I have had this agreement when I go away to teach. It is that he will lie to me. I think it may be unfair to him, but he doesn't complain and luckily he has rarely had to lie. So the agreement [...]
Another very worthwhile use of my time spending 4 1/2 dayslast week at a Tony Robbins workshop. This time I saw things from a different slant as I was crewing for him. One of over 300 people crewing for a group of over 3500 participants. The [...]
Well, I was hoping not to leave the blog empty this week but wow, time flies. I did have time (with a great deal of help from Lynda) to get a couple of new workshops posted on the website. If you haven't checked yet, do [...]
So the weekend was fun (in my opinion anyway). It was my first (but I don't think my last) Creating Your Trial Stress State workshop. I executed more than 20 (some little and some big) stressors over the weekend (that I planned) and [...]
So, I have a workshop this weekend that I have never taught before. I can't really go into too many details because I know some participants read my blog. In order for this curriculum to be successful, it needs to be mysterious and scary:). The [...]
Wrapping up some lose ends here. First of all thanks to everyone that contributed to the Shaping Challenge. I hope you all had fun and learned lots. I did promise I would reinforce one of you so the winner is . . . Chelsea and [...]
