For the love of dogs and their people
Posted in Anxiety, Fearful dogs, Temple Grandin, Thundershirt on Nov 24th, 2010
Tweet It‘s a Thanksgiving tradition. Ira and I fly to Oakland and JoAnn, our good friend, picks us up and away we go to Gualala, a marvelously funky little town situated on the bluffs above the Pacific Ocean about 100 miles north of San Francisco. This year Sam, JoAnn’s daughter, joined us with her dog, […]
Posted in Be the Change, Behavior, Behavior marker, Clicker, Greeting behavior, Kathy Sdao, Never shock a puppy, Positive reinforcement, Positive training, Shock collar, Stress on Sep 15th, 2010
Tweet (Originally posted June 18, 2009, It’s Shocking has been revised and updated.) The young man at the dog park was using a shock collar to train his dog. To be fair, the discomfort to the dog was below the screaming-in-pain threshold. In fact, I didn’t, or couldn’t, hear the dog whimper. And, the man […]
Posted in Behavior, Jean Donaldson, Shock collar, Stress, Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2009
Tweet (updated below) It’s positively Orwellian in Dogworld these days. Up is down. War is peace. And, the shark-tooth pinch collar (That IS what it looks like and it does bite the dog’s neck. See it here.) is called the “good dog collar.” It is “gentle” and “enhances your relationship with your dog” and is sold by […]
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