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73Exploits of An Amateur Dog Trainer - Volume 16: Behavioral Visualization
It's basically a fancy way for saying "picturing what you want before you start." One thing I had to learn was how to recognize what the various behaviors even look like. For the expert and experienced trainers, this is probably something of a...
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73Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 8 - Know Thyself, Know Thine Dog, Know Thine Enemies
One of the earliest lessons I had to learn was to forget what I thought a dog "is" or "should be". Forget what the "standard" says a Coton de Tulear should be. Forget what others say a dog should be...
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58Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 17 - From Theory to Application or Wally Learns to Use What He Learns
Theory is what I call the things he learns in "formal" training sessions. The place where he's set up to succeed (in the beginning anyway), has the concept broken down into smaller pieces and tasks, and basic mastery takes place. Application - well...
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56Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 5 - Applied Dog Training Tactics
In EADT: Volume 4, we covered Classical and Operant Conditioning as our two main tactical spheres in which we work in the "battle" with our dog's (and/or their behavior). I had thought to cover them more,...
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68Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 13 - Rest: It's About More Than Just a Tired Body.
When I first started working with Wally, I was often wondering why he was so tired after training sessions. I mean, all he did was sit or bark or touch things. How exhausting could that be? "You dogs were meant to do much more than touch people's...
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58Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer
In the photo, you'll see Wally, the subject of hopefully a series of writing about my attempt at dog training. He's the first dog I've ever attempted to train and spend any amount of time with (he's my mom's...
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65Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 15 - Fostering Creativity Through Shaping
Wally was a challenge to train back when we first started. He was fearful of the training process, and uncertain of both himself and me. Fortunately, discovering and mastering shaping helped us both.
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68Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 14 - Of Landmarks and Mental Maps
Dogs use landmarks and mental maps as part of their learning, both of their surroundings as well as while engaging in training.
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60Exploits of An Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 7 - Edutainment: Doggy Style
Games are wonderful. You want to teach your dog to follow rules? Teach him a game. You want him to be intent on you? Play a game with him. You want him to get "Exercise, Discipline, and Affection"? Play a game with him. You want to make training fun for both you and canine? Teach and play games.
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