One of the reasons it’s important to remember this is that dog training is not regulated and sometimes dog trainers are not very clear about the methods they use. Unfortunately people will sometimes say something is not punishment when actually it is. Even somepopular dog training books are n...
When I was seeing a lot of clientsI could always tell when I was tired because I started working with the dog, rather than training the owners. Perhaps that’s the irony of language: It makes communication easier in one sense, and harder in another. Things were so simple and clear when...
Find and take a rattlesnake aversion class before hiking with you dog. The trainer puts a mild shock collar on your pup and introduces them to different snakes by sight, smell and sound. The trainer gives your dog a mild shock if it's "curious." The hope is that your dog will ...
For certain, you do not want to useharsh training methodsor aversion-based training tools such as prongs, choke collars or shock, to suppress unwanted behavior. Even a loud tone of voice may intimidate the softer specimens. Please also remember that if your dog is acting aggressive, in many...
“The dishes being brought near to me,” says he, “I perceived that they consisted of dog’s flesh, and I was informed that at all their grand feasts they never made use of any other food. The new candidate provides fat dogs for the festival, if they can be procured at any price....
Why wouldn’t mental health issues contribute to my low energy levels and aversion to new challenges? Wouldn’t it be odd if they didn’t? And yet, because I’d grown up surrounded by triumphant stories of struggle, of people being more successful precisely because they had suffered and ...
Taste AversionRufus may not be able to taste as well as you can, but the fact that he can distinguish between different flavors helps him make taste associations, connecting the smell, taste and outcome all together. For instance, if your dog eats something that tastes bitter or even makes ...
along withSophia Yin’s exercises for reactive dogs. The more we do to make him more confident in every day life, the less camera shy he has become. The obedience training has the added benefit that I can ask him to sit or stay and he will. These days, he will even stare intensely...
difference, Horowitz says: Lead with your nose. “We don’t smell that much not just because it’s not that strong but we don’t put our nose in those situations. We would be better smellers if we just stuck our nose up to the ground, or to a dog. We have an aversion to that....
A dog training collar provides aversion training without requiring the use of a conventional pinch collar structure. The dog training collar has a series of spikes mounted on the in