More thoughts on “what’s in a name”
The previous post talks about how words do have an emotional content. To me the word TRAINING bears with it a high degree of seriousness. That is why I…
Posts by Elisabeth
Kay Lawrence: Wonderfully sensitive
https://kaylaurence.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/lead-off-good-lead-on-bad/ How do you ensure walking with you is not poisonous? Every piece of equipment you put on your dog is punishing to some degree. All dogs will try to remove…
A bit more on Georgie
Georgie exploring his neighborhood Georgie has been really enjoying going on long walks! He walks very well on a nice loose leash. This week he discovered pigeons! How is…
Going with the flow
I am working with a blind rescue pointer named Georgie. Georgie He has been at his new home for about 6 weeks now. He has learned to walk the stairs,…
Dogs: Attention and Approval is the key to their evolutionary success as a species
I spend a tremendous amount of time thinking about how to make people truly understand why teaching dogs to behave according to our expectations cannot be achieved by coercion…
Is my dog fat or just “muscular”?
Here is an interesting article by Dr. Sophia Yin about body condition and food motivation. Unfortunately many dogs are quite overweight and in my experience dog guardians tend to underestimate…
Capturing
Capturing is a technical term. It means taking a behavior a dog offers naturally, by accident or by habit and teaching the dog to perform that behavior on cue. One…
What to do on a rainy day?
Boredom is the mother of nuisance behaviors. We have established that in previous posts and even made a poster about that! Today the weather was miserable. So, I decided to…
Natural Flea and Tick control
My friend Tazz Latifi of Petropolis NYC http://www.petropolisnyc.com/ wrote a highly informative blog post on flea and tick prevention: the natural way. I realize that some areas near the New…