I wrote this blog for my friend and colleague KPA CTP Anna Jane Grossman at the TheDogs blog.
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8 reasons why you shouldn’t train your dog using a spray bottle
What’s up with the attitude! I have plenty, how about my dog?
Finnish Lapponian herder, photo by Aino Mutka
Would you say the dog in the photo has an attitude? This is how my Thesaurus defines the word attitude:
“a settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person’s behavior”.
I have a lot of attitudes. Driving on 401 (one of the biggest highways around Toronto) makes strong attitudes surface in me, so does getting into the subway or waiting for my appointment at my doctor’s office. Basically the word attitude tends to have a negative connotation, it is often linked to frustration. The majority of dog owners also feel that their dogs have an attitude when the dog is doing something unwanted. Lets examine this a little bit further. Continue reading
Posted in Behavior, Life happens, Training people to train dogs
How to and how NOT to approach a dog -blog entry by Ayella Grossman
Ayella Grossman of Oracle Australian Shepherds and BauHound Haus in Milton, ON, is an accomplished breeder and trainer. This is her second blog entry with Mindful Behaviors, this time on how people were approaching dogs at Milton Street Festival.
How Not To Greet A Dog. Poster by Lili Chin.
Highlights of the Steve White seminar
On May 7-8 2012 Mindful Behaviors hosted a Steve White seminar on tracking and scent detection. We all enjoyed learning from Steve whose knowledge of canine scent work and animal learning theory is very impressive, he is also a phenomenal speaker. I’m already looking forward to inviting him over again.
The first day we had a workshop on Hydration Intensified Tracking Training (HITT), a method developed by Steve for teaching tracking on hard surfaces and under challenging conditions. The whole method is based on error-less learning Continue reading
