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Canine Potential's Dog Blog: March 2013
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Here’s Barking at You. Doy, I hate that when that happens! 8221; but your dog is thinking ‘Hooray, I got her attention, mission accomplished.’ Then the barking behavior gets stronger. You must ignore the barking and remember to give your dog attention for being calm and relaxed. Ignoring means standing up and walking away, consistently. Ask yourself is your dog getting enough exercise? Is there a nice variety of appropriate toys? You are then able to modify your own behavior as...
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Canine Potential's Dog Blog: July 2012
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Thursday, July 19, 2012. I am a member of the Yahoo group Clicker Solutions and there was a recent post about a reactive dog. In one of the responses there was a link to a blog written by Patricia McConnell PhD,. Http:/ www.patriciamcconnell.com/theotherendoftheleash/tag/constructional-aggression-treatment. 8220;The stress threshold is the upper limit point at which stress surpasses the dog’s stress tolerance.”. Further research lead me to Handbook of Applied Dog behavior and Training Volume Two. Doing m...
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Canine Potential's Dog Blog: Communication Pitfalls
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Thursday, October 18, 2012. It is generally agreed that there is always a sender and receiver in any communication. In the Principles of Animal Communication. Where both parties benefit, there is eavesdropping. Where information from another animal is used to their detriment such as a mouse rustling noise alerting an owl, or the sender may send misinformation. A true and honest communication is always the best; it uses the least amount of energy and benefits both the sender and the receiver. So when your...
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Canine Potential's Dog Blog: Animal Behavior
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Saturday, March 31, 2012. Isn’t that a great picture? Those were my family’s dogs in 1993, from left to right, Gentry, Duffy, Vicki, Annie, and Alf. In 2009 I started going to school at the University of Washington in the Psychology department and I was finally taking my first Animal Behavior class. These two seemingly unrelated facts became a goose bump creating event for me, here’s how…. April 3, 2012 at 6:04 PM. April 20, 2012 at 9:06 AM. Now if I could just get you to do something with my kid! Carols...
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Canine Potential's Dog Blog: May 2012
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012. The players: Mellie and Honey. Relaxed equal play. Look at the c-curve on both dogs and. Mellie offering an off-balance posture by lifting her paw. You can see below that the stick is forgotten as they roll in the. Grass some. Honey is about to do some. Time on her back. C-curved bodies again from both dogs. Are the dogs approaching head-on or curving? Honey is tired of sharing the stick, her tight and curly tail,. C-curve gone as well as the look in her eye gives the clue to. Carol...
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Canine Potential's Dog Blog: April 2012
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Without even considering the consequences, whenever we say ‘treat’ and the dog comes to us we reliably. Give them a treat, isn’t that great? Works perfect if your dog’s name is Treat or Cookie. You will feel like you are cheating a bit otherwise, even though your training was perfect. How can you help your dog love hearing its name? One of the best descriptions of it I had read recently was in the book Control Unleashed. Keeping the sound of your dog's name in the same category a...
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Canine Potential's Dog Blog: Say "Cheese!"
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Taking pictures of your pets is a challenge! Dogs find the camera pointing right at them upsetting. This ‘line-up’ of our family’s dogs is the same proud group pictured in an earlier blog. The dogs look like they are in a line-up of some sort, not the same sharp group you see when the photo was taken outdoors. Location, location, location. This was the first picture I saw of Buddy. No wonder I fell in love! Were taken, is digital cameras. So I asked Mary Jo how she does it. First ...
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Canine Potential's Dog Blog
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Here’s Barking at You. Doy, I hate that when that happens! 8221; but your dog is thinking ‘Hooray, I got her attention, mission accomplished.’ Then the barking behavior gets stronger. You must ignore the barking and remember to give your dog attention for being calm and relaxed. Ignoring means standing up and walking away, consistently. Ask yourself is your dog getting enough exercise? Is there a nice variety of appropriate toys? You are then able to modify your own behavior as...
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