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74Meet The Coton De Tulear
Coton de Tulears, or Cotons for short, are interesting little dogs that have fun personalities and easy to live with temperaments. Here, we'll look at more of their traits and personality.
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71Exploits 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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71Exploits 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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70Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 9 - Communication and Understanding
Communication is a key to relationships, be they human-human, animal-animal, or human-animal. The ability to relate to the other party is a way to bond and simply enjoy the other's company. A large part of training a dog is developing an ability...
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69Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 11 - Of Heroes and Doggy Hell
I got the idea for this hub watching an episode of Family Guy. It mentioned "doggy hell" and I was wondering what would make up "doggy hell" in Wally's eyes. So I thought about it and how I could help him deal with those devils when they try to...
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68Exploits 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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67Setting up Site Overlay for Individual Hubs
Site Overlay is a feature in the Google Analytics suite of utilities that helps you breakdown what people are doing on your site(s) and where they go from there and how they got there in the first place. ...
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67Exploits of An Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 4 - Tactics of Training
Sometimes I think of Wally and I as locked in a virtual duel where he's trying to get what he wants and I'm trying to get what I want out of him, and it can be some mental manuevers going on from both our...
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65Exploits 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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64Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 3 - Negotiation and Manipulation
Sometimes I feel like I'm sitting at a table negotiating a contract...or a peace treaty. Imagine my surprise when there's an established training method that utilizes this. It's called the Premack Principle. Basically, it's a negotiation of...
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