For the love of dogs and their people
Posted in Ira, Photo essay on Sep 6th, 2010
Tweet Sadie loves, loves I tell you, chasing her ball into Boulder Reservoir. Usually she and I play a duet, repeating this refrain: ‘Ready? Chuck. Splash. Retreive. Splash. Drop!’ Ah, but, yesterday ‘her’ Ira chucked the ball for her! How special was that? Sadie throws herself into paroxysms of her tippy-toe-wiggle-butt dance every time she […]
Posted in Behavior, Clicker, Fearful dogs, Happy dog, Nicholas Dodman, Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2009
Tweet You will never have a ‘normal’ dog no matter how much counter-conditioning and desensitization you do. No matter how many hours of training you invest. At least that’s how I condensed Dr. Nicholas Dodman’s lecture on fearfulness and fear aggression. “You can rehabilitate, but there is no cure. And, there is a tendency to relapse.” […]
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