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Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 12 - Using What Your Dog Likes or Wally and Dora: Best Friends Forever!68

Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 12 - Using What Your Dog Likes or Wally and Dora: Best Friends Forever!

The way I use what Wally likes in order to train him using shaping.

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Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 17 - From Theory to Application or Wally Learns to Use What He Learns60

Exploits 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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Exploits of An Amateur Dog Trainer - Volume 16: Behavioral Visualization73

Exploits 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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Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 14 - Of Landmarks and Mental Maps64

Exploits 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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Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 2 - And Now For My First Trick58

Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 2 - And Now For My First Trick

Well, after reading a few books and websites and having already charged the clicker up, I was all geared up to teach the dog something. And here I stand at the crossroads. Which method shall I use now? There's...

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Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 13 - Rest: It's About More Than Just a Tired Body.65

Exploits 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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Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 5 - Applied Dog Training Tactics56

Exploits 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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Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer55

Exploits 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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Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 8 - Know Thyself, Know Thine Dog, Know Thine Enemies73

Exploits 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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Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 15 - Fostering Creativity Through Shaping64

Exploits 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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