Posted in APDT Conference 2010, Blog the Change for Animals, Dog greeting, Dogs Themselves, Dr. V., Edie Jarolim, Greeting behavior, Kathy Sdao, Letters to Sadie from APDT, Never shock a puppy, Pawcurious, Pictures, Sadie's Rules, Shock collar on Dec 30th, 2010
I lied. I said my last post, “Dogs Themselves”: 3 Hours of Great Dogful Radio“ was my last post for 2010. Then today as I was perusing my favorite blogs I found Edie Jarolim’s “Ten Favorite Posts I Wrote in 2010…“ Dr. V. over at Pawcurious issued a challenge to pet bloggers to share their favorite top [...]
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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
(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 did [...]
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Sadie is sometimes snarky. So am I. Aren’t you? Aren’t we all? (I know. Snarky is not a real word. But, it should be. It just so onomatopoetic.) Have you ever met someone who just rubbed you the wrong way right from the start? At first meeting they enthusiastically [...]
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