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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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59Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 17 - From Theory to Application or Wally Learns to Use What He Learns
Theory is what I call the things he learns in "formal" training sessions. The place where he's set up to succeed (in the beginning anyway), has the concept broken down into smaller pieces and tasks, and basic mastery takes place. Application - well...
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56Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 10 - Continued Communication and Understanding
In EADT: Voulme 9 we took a look at how dogs communicate using body language and posture. Now it's time to turn around and look at the other side, namely, us humans. We humans have postures that communicate...
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59Exploits of An Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 7 - Edutainment: Doggy Style
Games are wonderful. You want to teach your dog to follow rules? Teach him a game. You want him to be intent on you? Play a game with him. You want him to get "Exercise, Discipline, and Affection"? Play a game with him. You want to make training fun for both you and canine? Teach and play games.
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58Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 5 - Applied Dog Training Tactics
In EADT: Volume 4, we covered Classical and Operant Conditioning as our two main tactical spheres in which we work in the "battle" with our dog's (and/or their behavior). I had thought to cover them more,...
2 comments64Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 14 - Of Landmarks and Mental Maps
Dogs use landmarks and mental maps as part of their learning, both of their surroundings as well as while engaging in training.
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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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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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59Turning Baseball Love into a Baseball Game
I knew immediately I wouldn't be able to do a graphical game. I can't draw that well either in 2-D then or 3-D now. I don't have the uber-bucks it costs to get a 3-D graphics program. So, my game would have to...
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