Tweet I’ve been on the run. Two weeks ago I was lapping up as many APDT presentations as I could in Atlanta. No sooner than I had returned home a week ago Monday and I spontaneously, with a little prompting from Debbie Jacobs (fearfuldogs.com), hopped on up to New Palz, New York (lovely little town) […]
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Tweet Three cups of calming Yogi tea and two yellow-labeled bottles of Rescue Remedy later, I thought I’d feel calmer. I don’t. My fingers sit paralyzed on the keyboard. I stare at the blank space beneath “Add New Post.” I don’t want to think about this week’s Never Shock a Puppy topic–rattlesnakes. I’m terrified of […]
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Posted in Barking, Behavior, Behavior marker, Clicker, Control Unleashed, Fearful dogs, Gigi Moss, Leslie McDevitt, Never shock a puppy, Patricia McConnell, Positive punishment, Positive reinforcement, Positive training, Punishment, Reward-based training on Oct 7th, 2010
Tweet Hint: Do not choke, shock or punish your dog’s barking, growling, or lunging in any way shape or form. You will only make things worse by confirming for your dog that whatever it is she’s afraid of will indeed cause her harm in the form of your so-called “correction.” Do not correct your dog. […]
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