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 […]
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Tweet I totally blew it! What was I thinking? Maybe I ate too much of this ambrosial cheesecake and got all sugar-dazed. Anyway I missed signing the I am the change pledge! It wasn’t until I had returned home from BlogPaws West and was browsing the photos on the Be the Change Facebook page that […]
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Tweet Four million heroic dogs end up in shelters and breed rescue organizations every year in the United States. PEDIGREE, with your help, wants to feed these fine dogs while they are waiting to go to their forever homes! Write a Post, Help a Dog! For each blog (that’s YOU) that publishes a post about […]
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