Trainers are being forced into slots. Judgements are made, and then that...
To really understand some words, we must know their opposites; for example...
Most trainers today train with positive reinforcement, but it is how the positive...
INDECISIVENESS: a stage you must overcome in your growth as a trainer....
LEARNING THEORY REVISITED
While behaviour and training follow scientific rules all learned in the laboratory, we with our own dogs have dynamic relationships, households, and other complexities going on....
CONTROL VERSUS SUPPRESSION
I have always maintained that the purpose of rules is to give freedom. My dogs deserve the right to be dogs. Just because I can control them doesn’t mean that I should. Now don’t get...
Performance and self image are always equal. You will only do as good as you expect to do. What you imagine in your head is what you are going to get. You will never do better, though it is possible to do worse!...
