Collie Behaviour
Collie Lifestyle
Collie Public
Collie Pups
Collie Quirks
CollieLearners
CollieWiki
Connection
- A deep trust and love for each other
- A lesson in connection
- Connection is a dynamic quantity
- Connection is reinforcing
- Connection starts with invitation
- Connection: A Conversation for Life
- Feeling comfortable
- In praise of naughty dogs
- of yogis, dogs and humans
- The Joy of Learning
- What does connection look like?
Every Dog Every Day
Health
KayLaurence
Key Skills and Training
- A Cue or not a cue?
- A teaching plan
- Back to Basics?
- Cognitive Approach for the Dogs
- Cue Seeking
- Cue Seeking is Connection
- Do you see what I see
- Dogs are Born To Learn
- Duration or is it Breakfast in Bed?
- Duration: sustaining movement
- Evidence of learning
- Fast does not mean better
- Going Shopping
- Herding Games For All Dogs?
- Living well through movement
- Location is Their Cue
- Luring: Hand lures
- More than words
- No room for mechanics
- Nose Target. No thanks
- Not all lures contain food
- One dog watching
- Preparation
- Reasons to use a clicker
- Release cue or stay cue
- Remote lures
- Shaping by rewards
- Stop doing that ….
- Teaching People: more than rewards and reinforcers
- The choice of lure
- The Fade-in Protocol
- What We Get Right About Dogs
- What’s Cooking? A Warning About Recipes
- When we train a dog it grows
- Why add fun?
Learning with Nika
Life with Dogs
- 50 years a student of sheepdogs
- A Family of Multiple Dogs
- And Why Can’t He Refuse?
- Any Dog But a Collie
- Approval or attention seeking?
- Are you coasting?
- Changing is growth
- Ethical questions
- Heartbeat of living with dogs
- How do you know what you don’t know?
- In praise of naughty dogs
- Isolation hell or solitude heaven?
- One day you will love him again
- One dog’s trick is another dog’s lifeskill
- Play Health Check
- The Table Game
- The Whole of The Dog
- What is important … ?
- Wheat or Chaff?
- When it is not rewarding
Post_Archive
Puppies First Year
Seeing with New Eyes
- A Road to Nowhere
- A View to a Kill?
- Back to Basics?
- Chasm opening up?
- Collies : Masters at Laser Focus
- Construction or suppression
- Do We Want Impulse Control?
- Ear Myths
- Ethos: A Personal Trust Pilot
- Guidance is not dependence
- It’s Not Training
- Learning is not for spectators
- Normal is always changing
- Not Today and Not for My Sheepdogs
- Science Doesn’t Have All the Answers
- Since the Dawn of Dog Training
- The Answers Await Discovery
- The Cost of Cherrypicking
- The Fade-in Protocol
- The Need to Correct an Error
- The Power of A Cue
- The Spaces Between
- The Value of Experience
- What is a Trainer?
- What Words Conceal
- You did everything right but ….