Key Skills
Seeing with New Eyes
➤ Key Skills
Life with Dogs
Puppies : First Year
Connection Collective
Every Dog Every Day Book
Teaching with Reinforcement Book
Training with Food
Skills have a direct impact on the life of our dogs
We can learn to do better. We can learn with a different mindset.
Likely to expand your horizon, make you ask questions of yourself, your understanding and your expectations. For browsers, for passers-by and of course for training geeks.
Herding Games For All Dogs?
The wrong herding game is like trying to make a tennis player succeed at football
Cognitive Approach for the Dogs
Training is something done TO the dog. Learning that is something done FOR the dogs.
Teaching People: more than rewards and reinforcers
Familiarisation with the behaviourists’ models of reinforcement, punishment, shaping, extinction, can prevent us from looking outside the windows for either dogs or people …
Location is Their Cue
We begin teaching the dog to go to a target, such as a mat or platform and in this process our focus is on the outcome – the dog can place feet on the object or settle down. But at the same time this learning is happening the dog is also noting the location: where this is happening in this room, in the house, relative to the food-machine (you).
Cue Seeking is Connection
Connection is very individual and to be authentic we have to observe, slow down, understand our dogs and meet them where they are.
Back to Basics?
The word “basic” is often derided as synonymous with “shallow,” but in its origins it is the very opposite: foundational, profound, supportive.
Do you see what I see
Doing better is the reward from doing the work. This work needs to be the right work at the right time with the right intent done in the right way.
What’s Cooking? A Warning About Recipes
Recipes for “training” dogs are so prevalent in how we live with and talk about them that their existence often goes unquestioned.