Posted in Clicker, Gigi Moss, Nana Will, Negative punishment, Never shock a puppy, Patricia McConnell, Positive punishment, Positive reinforcement, Puppies, Puppy kindergarten, Recall on Sep 29th, 2010
Tweet If I had to choose the single most important cue I want my Sadie girl to answer to on a dime no matter what— no matter how far away she is from me or seductive the distractions—it’s ‘come.’ Actually our recall word isn’t ‘come’ it’s Sa-die-Sa-die which I call out in a high pitched […]
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Posted in Behavior, Fearful dogs, Gigi Moss, Nana Will, Positive reinforcement, Positive training, Puppies, Puppy kindergarten, Reward-based training, Sadie's Birthday, Treats on Aug 26th, 2010
Tweet Today is Sadie’s fourth birthday and I’m feeling nostalgic: Where did the time go? I remember frantically calling Gigi Moss like it was yesterday morning. I barely choked out, “My puppy is terrified of everything! I don’t know what to do!” “Bring her to my puppy kindergarten,” Gigi said. Is she out of her […]
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Tweet Tears, no, make that sobs, shattered my usual I-am-a-rational-person persona. The quesadilla I was eating momentarily stuck in my throat, caught in the crosscurrents of my trying to swallow against erupting emotion that seemed to come out of nowhere. It all began very innocently. Turid Rugaas and I were seated alone at adjacent tables […]
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