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Loose Leash Walking

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Posted November 10th, 2009 by Aidan
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Here is a video of one of the dogs in a current class of mine. Tess is a fairly typical 13 month old GSD who has learned that pulling on the leash and bouncing around gets her what she wants.

This is her third class with me, and you can see that her owner (the lady in the background, that's me handling Tess for this video) has done a great job at taking what she has learned in class and applying it CONSISTENTLY every single time Tess has a leash on.

L. David Mech on the "Alpha" Wolf

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Posted September 1st, 2009 by Aidan
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L. David Mech is one of the world's foremost authorities on wild wolves, and has spent the better part of his life observing wolves in the wild. He is also partly responsible for introducing the term "alpha" into scientific literature, which then trickled down into dog training.

In this video he explains when it would be appropriate to use the term "alpha", and how scientists no longer refer to the breeding pair in a pack of wolves as the "alpha" male and female.

Another amazing dog training act - Wow!

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Posted August 31st, 2009 by Aidan
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If you liked the Jay Sisler video, you'll love this!

Mr Hooper's Sketch

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Posted June 19th, 2009 by Aidan
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Twenty-seven years ago I was twice my daughter's age. For those of you who want to do the math, my daughter is currently two and a half years old - just old enough to start enjoying Sesame Street.

Sometimes I eat my breakfast watching TV with my daughter. Not a whole lot has changed on Sesame Street in the last twenty-seven or so years, even a lot of the original cast is still there. Big Bird hasn't aged a day, even if his puppeteer, Carol Spinner, has.

Intelligence of Domestic Dogs

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Posted June 5th, 2009 by Aidan

A nice video from National Geographic on the intelligence of domestic dogs:


Broken Ankle Downhill Loose Leash Walking

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Posted June 3rd, 2009 by Aidan
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OK picture this - you're recovering from a broken ankle so you strap it up with a mile of tape then head for the hills with two big dogs. You climb for about half an hour up a steep, slippery, rocky hill and realise that it's getting late and the wildlife is starting to stir, which could potentially cause the dog off-leash to give chase or the dog on-leash to pull, which would risk an injury to your weakened ankle.

New FaceBook Page for Positive Petzine

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Posted June 3rd, 2009 by Aidan

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Jumping Dogs

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Posted May 12th, 2009 by Aidan
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I'm not sure about the landing, but I love the way this pitbull keeps running in the air!

Just to prove that white dogs CAN jump!

Training 10-15 minutes, three times a day

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Posted April 30th, 2009 by Aidan
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If you have any doubts about how effective short training sessions are, check this out:

Free dog toy idea

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Posted April 29th, 2009 by Aidan

I have an old pair of worn-out hiking boots I had been leaving by the back door to do the gardening in. My dogs don't steal shoes, but one of these old boots had found it's way to the bottom of the stairs (via my daughter) - where in the dog's eyes it then became fair game.

One of my dogs doesn't like noisy toys so he's never been into buster cubes or old plastic milk bottles with food in them. While spreading a little dry food for a breakfast treasure hunt yesterday morning I decided to hide some of his food in this old boot.

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