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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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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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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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62Exploits of an Amateur Dog Trainer: Volume 15 - Fostering Creativity Through Shaping
Wally was a challenge to train back when we first started. He was fearful of the training process, and uncertain of both himself and me. Fortunately, discovering and mastering shaping helped us both.
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64Exploits 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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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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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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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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