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Maybe allow people who are different into your world, and then you can learn about them.
Learn about people, and you can have an impact.
Donât allow people into your world and donât learn about them? Then you canât do much beyond ignoring (best case scenario) or antagonizing (worst case) others who feel differently than you.Follow my training!
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Do aversives cause aggression? If so, why are famous trainers using them and showing well-balanced dogs? What does the research say?
Iâm not a scientist, so mostly I can tell you what I see around me, and my thoughts on the matter.
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Should dogs roam the neighborhood? How about near busy roads? How about a quiet rural area? How about chickens - can they roam? Why or why not? If someone else has a different opinion about this than you for each type of animal, how might you change their perspective via education and perspective taking? Or do you opt for embarrassment and shaming?
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I hope those of us in the Dog industry stop talking about âthemâ. âTheyâ can speak for themselves. If you have a question, ask âthem.â
When you make assumptions about why people do what they do, or say nasty things about their character because they donât share your opinions?
That reflects on you and it makes it very difficult to have honest conversations when youâre present because you ruin goodwill, listening and striving for understanding.Follow my training!
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What relationship-based training means to me. I give the example of an informal recall with my dog.
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Super informal chat with Bryndon Golya, CDBC of OC Canine Coaching about management, training, medication, giving âenoughâ to our dogs andâŠplenty in between!
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This live covers follower questions sparked by a panel hosted by Jo-Rosie Haffenden.
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The solution to the Dog Trainer people is to be like the chicken people.
In this live I talk about roosters. If the dog people were like the chicken people, we could make radical advances in our field.
Take a listen. Tell me what you think.Follow my training!
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Train your dog! Even if you donât reach 100%, who cares? Youâre still ahead of where you were if you hadnât trained at all.
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In this live I talk about why I do bite sports.
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Train the dog in front of you. What does that mean?
Seeing as I wrote a book with this title, I have opinions about it!
Two dogs can have the same issue, and the solutions can be radically different. At the end of the day, you have to know your dog⊠I give examples in this live to help you understand the concept.Follow my training!
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If you like the minutiae of dog training, you might like this live.
Here I talk about the challenge I have with my dog in the Mondio ring search exercise⊠He prefers to bite than to bark! I talk about a âgood trainingâ solution which involves breaking it down into small piecesâŠsmall splits are good dog training.
I talk about the fact that it didnât work. I talk about brainstorming to come up with an answer.
And what all of this makes me think about? One challenge of training dog sports with positive reinforcement is lack of tradition around solutions to problems. Of course this is not a problem in Dog sports that are traditionally positive reinforcement based, but it absolutely is in sports with little to no tradition of +r problem-solving, because these sport have rather few +r folks playing the game.Follow my training!
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Does positive reinforcement training mean withholding half of the information the dog needs to to be successful? Would the dog find more clarity if you included aversives? Would that actually be a relief to the dog?
I give my thoughts on that here.Follow my training!
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Life is complex. Dogs are one piece of the puzzle of complexity.
Be open to the challenge of varied perspectives. Be respectful! And try to make things better.
Dog trainers can do that. Youâre more than a dog trainer. You can change lives, and Iâm not just making that up.Follow my training!
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Your words are your power. Do not take someone elseâs words to placate them.
Choose your words carefully. Explain what you need to explain. And reserve the right to sayâŠ
It depends. I need more information.
Getting a group of people together is easy when you simplify complex topics. Who doesnât appreciate simplicity?
Well. Me. As long as life remains complex, I will explain in as many words as I need to say what I want to say.
Donât give your power away. Choose your words thoughtfully, and insist that others respect what you said as opposed to what they think they heard. or maybe what they wanted to hear. what words did you say? Pain, uncomfortable? Aversive? Management? A training tool? Be specific, and insist that others respect your words, or end the conversation.Follow my training!
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Continuing on with basic principles around force free training.
Here I introduce counter conditioning, desensitization and habituation. Xen was along for the ride, so he illustrates some of the principles - what do you do when it gets too intense?Follow my training!
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Does reinforcement history or emotion/instinct drive behavior?
Both. Emotion drives âbehaviorâ - the general category of things we do.
And reinforcement history drives the specific behavior which the learner chooses, from amongst all of the available options.
The challenge here is that the word âbehaviorâ means both the general category and a specific choice of a specific behavior.
Both are happening. I spend a few extra minutes talking about this during this live.
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Today, I explored where most force free behaviorists would start looking at a problem behavior⊠At the root!
What matters less than the behavior in front of you is where itâs coming from. What instincts or emotion are fueling it? If you can identify that, and do some thing about it, your behavior problem might simply disappear.
Obviously thatâs your best case scenario but⊠Itâs still where you want to start. Because more often then you might think that is the solution.Follow my training!
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Today I talk about the difference between training and management, and I give several examples to help you on your way.
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So appreciate those of you who gave your thoughts about the difference between discomfort and pain in my Instagram stories!
In this live, I also explained why I like the word adversive. I like that it centers the experience of the learner and that it recognizes how individual that experience might be.Follow my training!
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