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Greenlight Gatsby: September 2010
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Friday, September 24, 2010. A Public Service Announcement. I NEED A TOLLER. We now return to your regular schedule of Schnauzer-related programming. Links to this post. Monday, September 20, 2010. State of the Schnauzer. This is going to be long, and emotional, and full of my flavor of crazy. It's really demotivating to go to shows and trials full of stable, normal dogs. No one knows dog training theory better than me. My mechanical skills are decent, but I could shape anything. I get. I can make reality...
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Greenlight Gatsby: What I Want
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Saturday, October 15, 2011. I want a training system that works for 90% of dogs, and has the ability to deal with the outlying 10%. I want a training system that a novice can apply to their dog and get a safe dog. I want a training system that an expert can apply to their dog and get an excellent dog. I want a training system that has a low risk of fallout through well-intentioned misuse. I want a training system that is structured enough to not leave dogs or people guessing about what comes next.
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Greenlight Gatsby: May 2011
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011. I have an agenda for positive training. My win condition is not everyone uses R exclusively. My win condition is that most people use R heavily and as a first resort. Because it is objectively better. Links to this post. Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Being the clicker dog in the traditional class is frustrating and exhausting. But if you're going to use one, you can't have the damn dog strung up the whole damn class. I can't stand it. I can't stand it when someone has a two inch flat co...
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Greenlight Gatsby: November 2010
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010. When I am a Dog Trainer. Although I have always loved dogs, and I love people who love dogs, I am but an adoptee of the dog people. My first home, my people,. A Performance class for people who have never titled a clicker-trained dog in Obedience. 8 weeks, 6 teams. Performance Foundations I and Obedience Foundations. Week 1: Bring Dog, crate, clicker, treats. Review Novice exercises in slideshow and assistant demo dog forms. 15 minute practicum: Get dogs out, set up for heel...
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Greenlight Gatsby: October 2011
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Saturday, October 15, 2011. I want a training system that works for 90% of dogs, and has the ability to deal with the outlying 10%. I want a training system that a novice can apply to their dog and get a safe dog. I want a training system that an expert can apply to their dog and get an excellent dog. I want a training system that has a low risk of fallout through well-intentioned misuse. I want a training system that is structured enough to not leave dogs or people guessing about what comes next. Guilty...
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Greenlight Gatsby: July 2011
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Do What you Know in your Heart to be Right. There are people I don't like talking about dog training with. I don't like it when you train dogs sloppily, and since they're Labs and Goldens they tolerate it and work anyway. I don't like it when "you'll show her," and "he'll never do THAT again.". I don't like it when you set a dog up to fail, and nail her for falling for the trap. The world would be boring if everyone was like me. Links to this post. Monday, July 25, 2011. Persona...
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Greenlight Gatsby: August 2011
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011. Counterpoint: The teacher appears when the student is ready. I am a young, idealistic and modern person with a bias to having access to unlimited knowledge at my whim, without qualification. You cannot own knowledge until you earn it, and being told facts is not the same as internalizing knowledge. Links to this post. Friday, August 19, 2011. It Just Bugs Me. If I offered my dog a treat for herding the cattle, she would look at me like I was crazy.". Links to this post. 10 tips ...
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Greenlight Gatsby: Dunning-Krueger Effect
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011. I'm going to take a break from talking about dog training, which I have actually done a little, and talk about dog breeding, which I definitely know nothing about. I don't think I've ever actually touched a pregnant dog. One of my hobbies is collecting and reading old dog books. I recently borrowed two on dog breeding from my kennel club's library. November 8, 2011 at 5:17 PM. From this solitary example, the idea that a truly Pure dog would be homozygous for every gene is flawed.
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Greenlight Gatsby: December 2010
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Friday, December 31, 2010. Endings, Ongoings, and Beginnings. I will end this year's blogging not with a look backwards, but with a gaze turned towards the future. I've got some exciting changes in the works for 2011. Links to this post. Tuesday, December 21, 2010. When I am a Dog Trainer. II. When I am a dog trainer, classes that don't differentiate between pet dogs and performance dogs will be called "Non-Regular Classes.". Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Greenlight Gatsby: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. What I Did This Weekend. In September, I went on a camping trip to Minneapolis. It poured the entire time and I found a dog show to take shelter at. My, what a coincidence it happened to be the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever National Specialty! I talked and learned and networked and picked out a couple of dogs I decided I wouldn't mind a puppy from. In a few years, the time wasn't right just yet. Needed to be sending things cargo into the United States. Even dogs. A ...I thi...