Seeing with New Eyes
➤ 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
Curiosity drives learning. Be curious
Thoughts that deserve time to digest, integrate and mature into changes.
Or just a way to browse and stretch the thinking muscles.
You did everything right but ….
But it still hasn’t worked out, even after 6 years?
Yeah, it can be disappointing, but at times even the “perfect” protocol, applied with accuracy can undo itself and we go around in the circle again.
Learning is not for spectators
Are you an Active Learner? Or: Are you getting your money’s worth for online courses? It would not matter what subject we are talking about: cooking, shopping, playing golf or training your dog if you are not working at getting better then you are getting worse....
Ear Myths
There is a myth surrounding Border Collies that ear shape, coat colour or texture, and even eye colour are indicators of that dog’s personality, temperament, or behaviour: for example, it might be said that a long-coated red dog is sensitive; a dog with pricked ears...
Living well through movement
“The purpose of learning is to get more or better rewards” W. Shultz Can we assume that the more we learn the more rewards we can enjoy? Often these are not directly obvious. When we learn and extend our mobility: dancing or mountain climbing, this impacts directly on...
The Need to Correct an Error
When learning is littered with costly mistakes we will carry anxiety and avoidance. Errors are feedback. There should be no fear of error just opportunities to learn.
What Words Conceal
The language across all kinds of media paints a picture of dogs and our relationships with them.
Do We Want Impulse Control?
Teaching your Collie “impulse control” is the wrong way of thinking about their urges, and certainly an unhelpful way of dealing with them.
Collies : Masters at Laser Focus
When we ask the dog to Be Collie and use all their inherited instincts, part of that package is the exclusion of stimulus irrelevant to that intense predatory focus.