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Member Since 12/24/2012     Barked: Wed Apr 17, '13 6:31pm PST  I was wondering, why do people get the patches that advertise their actual medical diagnosis? Why get Autism Dog patches? Or Hearing Dog or PTSD Dog, etc. Why not just get Service/Assistance Dog patches? Why would you want strangers knowing your personal diagnosis? my posts [notify]

Member Since 12/24/2012     Barked: Sat Mar 16, '13 5:45am PST  Nice save, Jackson. Barbara Heidenreich, now that's a GOOD dog trainer. Her methods work for ANY animal. She can train anything with a brain stem and doesn't need any crutches to make up for lack of trainer's ability. Animals willingly comply, she has no need to force them. Not sure how you'd force a sulcata anyway. Wish she was giving a seminar in my area. I really recommend her if anyone is near where she'll be giving a seminar. Well worth the money. my posts [notify]

Behavior & Training > "Anyone can be a good dog trainer"

Member Since 12/24/2012     Barked: Sat Mar 16, '13 2:42am PST  Most of the service dog trainers don't have titled dogs and most service dogs aren't titled. Yet these dogs have to perform flawlessly. Lives are depending on it. It's not competitions for glory or ribbons, it's life. It's obedience, complicated obedience at that, not behavior modification, although when you come down to it, it's all one and the same. Behavior is behavior. So again, I don't see what winning ribbons has to do with making a good dog trainer? Someone here wrote, "I want a dead trained dog." What in the world does this mean? my posts [notify]

Behavior & Training > Is Your Dog a Protection Dog?

Member Since 12/24/2012     Barked: Sat Mar 16, '13 2:29am PST  There was a news segment about this somewhere. When the owners were gone, they had an intruder come into the house and test different breeds of dogs. I don't think any of them were particularly protective. I think, if an intruder came into my house when I wasn't home, my dogs would greet them or hide. I'd prefer hide so they don't get hurt. My things are replaceable but my dogs are not. my posts [notify]

Behavior & Training > "Anyone can be a good dog trainer"

Member Since 12/24/2012     Barked: Sat Mar 16, '13 2:26am PST  I said that I don't find the trainer having titled dogs to be particularly important, or even indicative of a good dog trainer. I decided to come back and explain this. Dogs have been domesticated for a long time now. They're very biddable, some more than others. They're very forgiving and allow us to do a lot to them. Think about a large dog lying there and allowing it's self to get beaten by a human. Most dogs can seriously harm or even kill us but they don't. We take enormous liberties with them and they allow it. Believe it or not, but dogs make training very easy. Too easy. A dog will allow it's self to be led around by a leash and if they pull, they'll even let you use any number of aversives on them and they'll give in. It's the very rare dog who won't. This is why I think the best dog trainers aren't limited to just dogs. The best dog trainer, are parrot trainers, horse trainers, guinea pig trainers, capybara trainers, elephant trainers, tiger trainers, orca trainers, etc. You get the picture. Most of these other undomesticated and wild animals won't allow a trainer to take the same liberties with them that a dog would. You can MAKE a dog return to you but try to force a free flying parrot to. Try to shove a tiger down so you can take a blood sample. Try to hold an orca's head still so you can medicate them. It's very hard so a GOOD trainer, in my opinion, has to know how to out smart the animal, not how to force the animal. If you have to rely on collar corrections and the like, you can get away with that with dogs, but not with most other species. So in my opinion, a good dog trainer isn't just limited to one easy, biddable, forgiving species. my posts [notify]

Member Since 12/24/2012     Barked: Thu Mar 14, '13 10:08am PST  That's a LOT of different words for essentially all the same behavior, being quiet. Your dog may get it, or not if you have to move down the line to using different words for the same cue, but another would be easily confused. Consistency is best, as a general rule. my posts [notify]

Behavior & Training > My dog(s) bark at the people WHO LIVE HERE

Member Since 12/24/2012     Barked: Fri Mar 8, '13 8:51pm PST  Sounds like your dog has severe anxiety if she's so bark reactive to so many different things. This is called a very low threshold. I'd work with a certified applied animal behaviorist or veterinary behaviorist to fix the cause for her barking so the symptom behavior (the barking) will clear up. If you do things to suppress the barking, without treating the cause, it's like slapping a bandaid on an infected wound and hoping for the best. The anxiety will likely get worse and even if you do suppress the barking, she might just start in with a new behavior, maybe even worse than the barking. Also, it may seem like she's barking at nothing, but remember that dogs have superior senses of smell and hearing to us. So it's likely that she detected something that you can't, even if it's mundane and not bark worthy to anyone else besides her. Good luck. my posts [notify]

Behavior & Training > "Anyone can be a good dog trainer"

Member Since 12/24/2012     Barked: Fri Mar 8, '13 8:32pm PST  I don't think having titled dogs makes a good dog trainer. Or that there's a such thing as too much education. Both experience AND education are important factors, as well as people skills. Thought this might be relevant. http://rogerabrantes.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/so-you-want-to-be-a-go od-dog-trainer/#comment-2394 my posts [notify]

Raw Food Diet > Pig's feet

Member Since 12/24/2012     Barked: Fri Mar 8, '13 7:12pm PST  Anyone feed these? Are the bones pretty soft in the feet? Is it a lot of cartilage? Is it high in fat or is it not likely to upset sensitive tummies? Thanks my posts [notify]

Member Since 12/24/2012     Barked: Fri Mar 8, '13 7:06pm PST  Get thinning shears and then break up the mat with those. Break it up until you can easily just brush or comb out the mat. You can try them vertically or horizontally into the mat. my posts [notify]

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