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Choose and Raise a Puppy: Intro to clicker training
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Choose and Raise a Puppy. Choosing and training a puppy for agility, herding, obedience, and companionship. September 08, 2007. Intro to clicker training. Notes for a workshop I gave at the ADAA Camp. They came from Bob Baily via Dani Weinberg and Helix Fairweather. How to Teach a New Behaviour. 1 Get yourself organized. Prepare small, soft, easily delivered treats or decide on another reward. Practice clicking and delivering the treat until you can do it smoothly and quickly. 3 Get the behaviour. If you...
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Choose and Raise a Puppy: Wagging School
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Choose and Raise a Puppy. Choosing and training a puppy for agility, herding, obedience, and companionship. November 03, 2007. A little different from previous tv dog-training schools, Wagging Schools is a series of five minute programs each dedicated to teaching a basic skill like sit, lie down and leave it. All the Wagging School videos are available to download onto your mobile device. In MP4, WMV and 3gpp format. Or you can download all 10 guides in one pdf (202KB). Wagging School's Golden Rules.
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Choose and Raise a Puppy: Virtual Clicker Training
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Choose and Raise a Puppy. Choosing and training a puppy for agility, herding, obedience, and companionship. September 16, 2007. The US PBS network's program Pet Tech featured Duncan, a virtual sheep dog who looks after a virtual flock. Created by a team at MIT's Media Lab, Duncan has a mind of his own and can learn to respond to verbal commands. Like a real dog, however, Duncan's performance often depends on the skill of his human master. With advice from Gary Wilkes. You can watch episodes of Pet Tech.
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Choose and Raise a Puppy: June 2007
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Choose and Raise a Puppy. Choosing and training a puppy for agility, herding, obedience, and companionship. June 15, 2007. Domestication apparently started when wolves introduced themselves to humans by scavenging around campsites. They then moved in and started acting as an early warning system for humans. Later they were used in hunting. It also suggests that the arguments for raw food based on a 'natural wolf diet' are too simplistic too. If dogs have been eating human cast-offs and left-overs for...
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Choose and Raise a Puppy: Sapper Merlin killed on duty
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Choose and Raise a Puppy. Choosing and training a puppy for agility, herding, obedience, and companionship. September 06, 2007. Sapper Merlin killed on duty. Sapper Merlin watches as Sapper Peter Lawlis eats a biscuit. An Australian Cattle Dog cross from Brisbane he was working as a bomb detection dog in Afghanistan, when he was run over while sleeping in the shade of a vehicle. Rest in peace, Merlin. :(. Such a loss. Hope you have gone to doggie heaven Sapper. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Choose and Raise a Puppy: The paw plunger
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Choose and Raise a Puppy. Choosing and training a puppy for agility, herding, obedience, and companionship. November 03, 2007. Like a giant coffee cup filled with bristles, the paw plunger lets you wash puppy's feet without a whole bath. Handy device or useless gadget? Might be useful after Duz's side trips through the mangroves. Feel free to visit. For some useful freebee's including a free book on the history of the dog and dog training. What's so special about this? It looks just like a coffee mug.
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Choose and Raise a Puppy: December 2006
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Choose and Raise a Puppy. Choosing and training a puppy for agility, herding, obedience, and companionship. December 09, 2006. We stayed for the next class of beginners, where they were practicing following handler direction despite distractions - which was just what we needed. Le was waiting at the table with treats, but the dogs had to do the jumps the handler asked for before they got the treats. (The diagram shows half of the exercise, with the dogs on our right.). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Choose and Raise a Puppy: The Good, the Bad, and the Furry
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Choose and Raise a Puppy. Choosing and training a puppy for agility, herding, obedience, and companionship. November 02, 2007. The Good, the Bad, and the Furry. Helpful pet icons tell if a dog is aggressive, very smart, needs a lot of grooming, can make a lot of noise, etc. while other icons pertain to owners, differentiating between couch potatoes and active folk, suburbanites and city dwellers, etc. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. The Good, the Bad, and the Furry.
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Choose and Raise a Puppy: Genetics and Behaviour
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Choose and Raise a Puppy. Choosing and training a puppy for agility, herding, obedience, and companionship. September 18, 2007. Nicholas Dodman is head of the animal behaviour clinic at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. Using brand new genetic 'chip' technology Dodman is exploring the genetics of common behavioural problems in dogs. With selective breeding and documented pedigrees, purebred dogs provide a powerful system for untangling genetic complexities.
