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Thank You Susan Friedman and Associates: A Personal Review of the...
Home page photo from behaviorworks.org Imagine if you could drop out of this world for two months and live somewhere where positive reinforcement ruled rather than punishment. Where teachers understood...
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Get Out of My Face! Teaching an Incompatible Behavior
Ever since she arrived at my home at the age of 10 weeks, Clara has been a challenge. One of her more problematic behaviors was her mugging of my face whenever it got within range. It happened all the...
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The Perils of Premature Premack
Zani waiting at the back door. Her reinforcement for this polite behavior is the opportunity to go outside. Sacrilege! Is it possible that in some cases, using the Premack principle in choosing...
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Contest! The Faces of Summer
Summer with bedroom eyes Just the other day I told a friend that I would never have a contest on my FaceBook page or here on the blog. It’s always presented as one of the number one ways to get people...
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Training Levels: Making it My Own
One of the very cool things about Sue Ailsby’s Training Levels is that they are extremely structured but also completely individualizable. The Levels provide a method of learning to communicate with...
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Pack Leader
If you use a search engine and search for “pack leader,” the first page of hits looks something like this (taken from actual Google page). Establishing Yourself as Pack Leader PACK LEADERS – Canine...
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High Speed Nosework
Clara’s got the Ball! Just a little fun for the middle of the week. Clara can now find her ball anywhere in the yard in under a minute. I’m going to have to start burying it, or get a bigger yard. Or I...
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Wordless Wednesday: Clara got Mail!
Watch as Clara deftly opens her package from GoughNuts. We are not affiliated with the company and were not asked to feature their products. We’re just very happy customers: Clara because she loves the...
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Welcome to the Funhouse
The distracting, sometimes scary environment of a dog trial Over the weekend, Summer and I competed in AKC Rally. She is such an incredibly good sport. Summer and I chugging along After the match I was...
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7 Great Benefits of Flirt Pole Play for You and Your Dog
Clara’s and Zani’s Experiences If you have been following the blog, you may have seen that Clara is an absolute maniac for the flirt pole. It is right up there with playing ball in her list of favorite...
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Calm Submissive
According to the well known TV personality (I won’t call him a trainer) Cesar Millan, “calm submissive” is a very desirable state for your dog to be in. Is Zani calm? Check out her right front leg...
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Don’t Look Now! The Benefits of Window Film for the Household with Reactive Dogs
Light can come in but they can’t see out! Do you have a reactive dog, or one who simply barks too much at things he sees out the window? And do you also care about how your house looks and value...
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The False Hypothesis of the Pack
Hey! “Pack theory” is not a theory at all! Observations of captive wolves in unnatural groupings led to “pack theory” –Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Theories vs Hypotheses One of the biggest...
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Summer Learns An Alternative to Being the Fun Police
Sweet little Summer I have mentioned before that my dog Summer is reactive. Reactive has come to refer to a dog who reacts strongly (and inappropriately in the human’s view), usually with an aggressive...
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Is Hide and Seek All Fun and Games?
Eric Brad posted a really great question this last summer on his FaceBook page, Canine Nation. Yes, it’s December now. It takes me this long to mull things over sometimes. Have any of you ever used a...
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Boing! Capturing a Trick and Putting it on Cue
Zani catching some air I’ve got antecedents and cues on the mind lately. So here’s a little video showing how I captured and started putting a cue onto a darling behavior of little Zani’s. I can get...
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A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words…But Are They the Right Ones?
Here are four photos that are probably not as they seem. I’m telling you that up front. This isn’t a trick. The shutter speed of a typical digital (or analog) camera is far less than a second....
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The Right Words, Revealed
Last week I published four “deceptive” photos in A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words, But Are They the Right Ones? As promised, here are explanations and context for the photos. #1 Zani doing “Whale Eye”...
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I’m So Glad I Had the Camera!
Something pleasant for a Monday morning: Eileenanddogs Funniest Home Videos! Here are three incredible and adorable moments that I am very grateful to have on film. Zani Uses a Tool I literally grabbed...
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Which Dog is Resource Guarding?
Here’s a little body language fun: Who is seriously resource guarding? And what is the other dog doing? I showed these pictures to two of my skilled observer friends to compare, and they came up with...
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