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Magical far out concept: Put your dog on a fucking leash.
How do you build engagement with a dog?
Denise Fenzi has awesome free blog posts and videos online r.e. engagement (and knows much more than I do).
(also, the Dog Sports Skills books are fab for this topic among others)
Stages of Engagement Part 1
Engagement - A little more
Engagement Part 3
Rewarding Engagement and Effort
And… More Engagement
Cheerful Interruptor or Engagement?
Engagement - Yes, again
Engagement: Why the Extremes?
I also really like the book “Beyond The Backyard” by Fenzi for ideas about training your dog to work around distractions in all kinds of environments. The step-by-step plan in this book is wonderful.
Lapis is the cutest dog ever and no one can tell me otherwise.
A dog never makes a mistake. He is just a dog and he does what he does because he is a dog and thinks like a dog. It is you that makes the mistake because you haven’t trained him to do what you want him to do when you want him to do it. Or you have misjudged what he is able to do, physically or mentally. So if a mistake is made in the team, it is you that has made it, not the dog.
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Whats your fav thing about your dog?
Mine is that when Lotta doesn’t know what I’m asking of her she’ll just start waving and eventually spring into the air lol
when lark gets excited over anything she kicks out her leg and i love it
Pants does the leg kick thing too ^^ . And his wiggle butt whenever he sees me . And his smile which I never get on camera.
In the morning when Marvel realizes I’m awake or sees Pants get up he just gets this slow happy tail wag. It’s his way of saying good morning.
Lapis is literally always wagging her tail, not even a slow lazy wag but like a medium speed windshield wiper fwip fwip fwip that doesn't stop unless she's laying down or sleeping (and sometimes not even then)
You kinda just blew my mind with the whole high drive doesn't equal high strung. I've always thought the two were related and feared owning high drive dog breeds. Can you please talk more on high drive?
I see the misconception all the time and it frustrates me. One of the first GSDs I worked with was a great example of this. People get into a fad of thinking these dogs are high drive and therefore cool. Everyone kept talking about how “High drive” she was and how intense. I boarded her for 6 months prior to actually getting a GSD to see if I could handle a working line. But I was not a fan of her temperament, she was super high strung, go go go all the time. Couldn’t settle in the house, would yell and scream over the dumbest things. When I was making her wait for a release to get her meals she would legitimately sound like she was being abused. Not from any contact, just the idea of waiting would cause her to go into a screaming fit.
But then, when we went to actually doing some training for food or the ball, her focus was craptastic and she would lose interest rather quickly. In bitework she’d get super amped, scream and pull with all her might, but then only last a couple bites before being “meh”. Her mind was just so frantic that it would come off as drive to most people, but drive is the dog’s will to get what they want. A dog who is truly high drive for something is not going to go “meh” after a couple moments of interacting.
Dakota for example, very laidback, he would happily lay on the couch all day with no complaints. But if you were to put a live prey animal in front of that dog it’s like flipping a switch and suddenly nothing else in the world matters except getting that animal. He has a high prey drive because he is willing to do anything to get to it and will sit for hours to stare at it until he can get it. (He does this any time I bring home rats to feed my picky snake). And he’s never frantic or obnoxious about it, just stone set on getting it.
But outside of that, you’d never guess it from him.
(Hopefully that makes sense? It was a bit more of a ramble. ^_^” )
This is an excellent post.
My dog is a good example of this. He is very laid back in the house; he spends most of his day sleeping. If I get up, he’s all for doing stuff, but if we’re not doing anything, he’ll settle back down. He gets adequate exercise and outlets every day (though he’s always up for more). I specifically taught and encouraged settling in the house because I will not live with a dog as described in the above post. Now, when we do something that requires -drive-, he gets turned on and damn nothing can stop him. He does have some franticness with things that are -super- high value, because I don’t get to actively work him in that level of drive very often anymore. I had to carry him off the field at lure coursing the other day because he was trying to back out of his collar and do everything he could short of biting me to get back to chasing the bunny. We clearly have some stuff to work on in regards to his obedience, heh. I can call him off of a live rabbit or squirrel, but those plastic bags are apparently something else. He was clearly shakingly exhausted but his level of intent was still through the roof. Drive is goal-oriented. Being high energy/high strung/frantic, is not. Drive can escalate into franticness when the dog gets so spun up he’s not clear headed anymore (As my dog did this weekend). There was a good article around recently about this. I know I’ve reblogged it a few times, but maybe someone can dig it back up.
This . So many people I know with herding breeds confuse drive with excitability or high energy but really they have no idea what kind of dog they have.
“RECENTLY, I VISITED AMERICAN FRIENDS IN the UK who had moved from Dallas to London’s Kensington South. Since relocating, they had adopted a cat and were considering getting a puppy. However, after reviewing their previous dog experiences, they realized that the dogs they raised had not been nearly as well behaved as the dogs they saw in their new city. As we chatted over drinks, they asked my opinion as a dog trainer: Why were the dogs in London behaved better than the dogs back home? What were dog owners in London doing differently? I told them I would make it a point to watch dogs as we traveled through England, Belgium and France, and report back to them. Following are my observations. > Dogs in the UK and in the countries we visited were allowed almost everywhere. We saw them in bakeries in Belgium, inside French toy stores, in the Stonehenge museum, at markets, on elevators, on the trolley, on the train. > It was common to see dogs off leash, except in areas where waterfowl were present. > Children were discouraged from interacting with strangers’ dogs. Over and over, I heard parents tell their children, “Don’t distract them, darling.” > Owners did not give their dogs obedience commands. I never saw a dog asked to wait before going through a doorway, sit for a pat, stay quiet on a train or lie down under a table. The dogs often did do these things, but they were not asked to do them. > Young dogs in Europe did the same things as young dogs in America. A nine-month-old black Labrador jumped onto a counter to sniff the cheese selection at the market. A small mixed breed stopped to sniff each interesting spot. When a young Bulldog resisted going down the stairs to the Underground, the owner coaxed him down each new step. A man with a very young puppy walked quickly to keep the puppy from picking up objects he found along the way. Nothing I saw made me think that European dogs were born well behaved. > The general public ignored the dogs. I never saw anyone ask to pet or give treats to a stranger’s dog. When I approached to inquire about a dog’s age and breed, the response was brief. If I gave a compliment, the answer was often “Oh, that’s very kind.” This noninteraction included other dogs as well. Dogs would see each other or stand near each other but were not allowed to sniff or play. As I examined my notes, I couldn’t help notice that the way dogs are treated in Europe is strikingly similar to the way we treat (or strive to treat) service dogs in the U.S. From an early age, the environment created for service dogs is meant to keep them calm and comfortable, which keeps them quiet as well. Young service dogs in training are walked through crowds of people who ignore them. Children are taught not to distract them. The dogs are not able to sniff or play while they’re working. We treat service dogs this way because we understand that interacting with them makes training harder for their handler. As a dog trainer, I understand how access to many environments and being ignored by strangers creates success for dogs and their people. When strangers frequently offer treats and attention, or allow their dogs to rush into another dog’s space, it produces specific emotional responses, which will arise each time a new person or a strange dog approaches. Sometimes, this emotion is pleasure, but more often, anxiety, over-exuberance or defensive behavior is manifested. There is no need to ask a dog to sit if no one is approaching. Nor is there a reason a dog would pull toward strangers who have typically ignored him. If being taken to new places were a regular occurrence, it would not excite a dog into lunging through doorways. If barking and pulling were consistently ignored in young dogs, those behaviors could never become a game or a way to get attention. Unlike the restrictions put on U.S. dog owners, Europeans are able to consistently expose their dogs to new sounds, sights and smells, which mentally enriches the dogs without overstimulating them.
If a dog receives no reinforcement from strangers, the owner will never have to calm an excited dog or manage a fearful one. It gives dogs freedom to focus on their owners because nothing interesting is coming at them from another source. People have the freedom to work or relax with their dogs in a variety of environments without needing to fend off a strange person or dog, and their dogs gain confidence from knowing exactly what to expect. So when I reported back to my friends, I told them that they should have no trouble raising their puppy to be a well-behaved European dog. Their fellow Londoners would do 75 percent of the work for them by ignoring the dog, keeping their children from interacting with him, allowing him access to a wide range of socialization opportunities, and keeping their own dogs under control. My fiends would only need to build a strong bond with their puppy and teach him basic manners. It turns out that it’s not dog owners who are doing things differently across the pond, it’s everybody else.“
The Damage of Dog Whispering
This is an authorized repost of this article.
The full pdf can be found at this google drive link for more-professional-than-tumblr sharing purposes.
I wrote this paper four years ago, and it still stands as probably the most important and widely read piece of my work. It’s official posting is moving to this blog because it needs to be seen and referenced as part of a larger educational effort about animal behavior and welfare. It’s been reposted to a number of sites. Some credit me, some don’t - all have been messaged about it. Some insist on sharing it with the inflammatory photos of Millan flipping off the camera, which were added by a third party and are consistently the bane of my existence. I consider them highly unprofessional as part of an academic essay, but without them functioning as click-bait I think it would be much less widely read. They’re catchy and inflammatory, but they’re not my addition.
Share this link, share the google doc - but please don’t share the versions with those photos. If you see them posted on your friend’s timelines or other sites, please, tell them those photos aren’t part of the original educational effort and ask them to support and share this version.
The story I don’t often tell about this paper is that it came about as a result of a bet with one of my professors. I knew, as most people in the academic side of canine training do by now, that it was easy to disprove Millan’s theories as harmful using primary sources. I wanted to see if it was possible for someone who wasn’t a trainer, wasn’t an academic, to draw the same conclusions from a selection of well-cited books that could be pulled off a shelf. They had to be easy to read and accessible with very little background knowledge about behavioral science. I wanted to prove that with dedication and time literally any dog owner could draw the right conclusions about Millan’s work and do the right thing by their dog by switching away from it. She took me up on the bet, and I won.
If you care about animal welfare, please read this.
I’ve now been training dogs for a decade. I find Cesar Millan’s training theory and advice appalling. As a scientist, its obvious that his factual statements and derived conclusions are entirely wrong. As a trainer, I can tell how stressed and unhappy - not cured - the dogs portrayed on his show are. It’s covered up by rhetoric, the soundtrack and a voiceover. Tens of scientists, trainers and behavioral science organizations have spoken out against his theories. I’ve seen dogs mistreated by well-meaning owners who took his advice unquestioningly. Whether you’re an owner, a trainer or just someone who likes dogs, please read this. It’s important to be educated in the science behind training theories before espousing or applying them.
This paper has been written as a cumulative work for an intensive independent study [in 2012] on canine cognition and applied training theory. It aims only to represent logical conclusions as drawn from scientific sources and professionals in the field. You’ll notice the sources cited are credible books and web-sites - this is intentional. The goal was to write a paper with information taken from sources directly available to the common layperson. I’m happy to suggest scientific sources for more reading.
It has been pointed out to me that the mention of immigrant status in this is easily interpreted as discriminatory, and that was never the intent. I originally wrote this as a scientific paper, in which it was considered important to go into detail about his credentials. I included it in his background because it was something he emphasized in his own books as highly impacting his career trajectory.
THE DAMAGE OF DOG WHISPERING: A CRITIQUE OF CESAR MILLAN’S THEORY OF DOG PACK DYNAMICS
Rachel Garner 4/25/12
INTRODUCTION
Theories of canine psychology and training derived from legitimate behavioral science have progressed greatly in the last fifty years. Unfortunately, the public’s most beloved source of information – The Dog Whisperer by Cesar Millan - advocates a theory in direct opposition to this progress. For the last eight years, Cesar Millan has put forth an abusive training theory predicated on disproven science, fallacious logic, and incorrect assumptions. Described by a New York Times affiliate as a “one-man wrecking ball directed at 40 years of progress in understanding and shaping dog behavior,” Millan mixes an overly simplistic and incorrect view of canine social structures with a lack of scientific knowledge. His philosophy centers around two main theories; that canines have an innate and ingrained need to function according to a ‘wolf-pack’ social structure, and that dogs need to live ‘as they did in nature’, before human intervention. Because the concept of dominance theory is central to Millan’s training philosophy, many other crucial aspects of a dog’s environment and psyche that should be addressed when dealing with behavioral issues are completely ignored. As a result of the Dog Whisperer’s popularized methods, many dogs with simple issues are handled badly and likely abused in the name of ‘pack theory’. The worst part is that the entire situation could be avoided easily. It requires only a small amount of research into the social and psychological lives of the common canine to understand where Millan’s theory goes wrong.
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Bringing this back around since new followers are asking why this blog 100% does not support CM.
If only I could get the pet parents who come into my store to read and understand this
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Can't afford the vet, can't afford the pet.
When we in the veterinary industry defiantly cry “If you can’t afford the vet then you can’t afford the pet,” please try to understand what we’re talking about.
We’re not talking about people that have a pet for years, fall on hard times and can’t find the $3000 it needs for surgery or intensive care. Life happens. Goodness knows most of us don’t have that kind of money lying around either.
We’re talking about people who spend $1000’s on a new puppy… But can’t afford vaccines, desexing or heartworm preventative.
We’re talking about people who ‘rescue’ an animal but fail to provide it with basic care.
Or ‘rescues’ that aren’t treating the issues of animals they acquire, especially if they delay treatment to beg for donations online.
And the people that haven’t wanted to spend money on preventative care for their senior pet for the last three years because “she’s old and will die soon.”
Or the ones that spend hundreds of dollars on doggy fashion accessories but accuse you of price gouging on antibiotics.
Who can’t borrow $50 from all the people they know, but want a payment plan from you. And a discount because they ‘rescued’ it as a puppy.
For whom $20 of take home pain relief is ‘just too much’.
Who keep acquiring more and more animals with problems that need extensive treatment that they can’t pay for.
Look, we don’t want to see anything suffer and will help out when we can, and try to tailor things to your budget…
But if you can’t afford BASIC veterinary care, then you cannot afford the pet. Don’t get it.
So, after a lot of consideration and debating, I'm pretty certain that Lapis is a sighthound cross of some sort (which is apparently called a lurcher, who knew). Once I've got some extra money, I'll do a dna test but honestly, she's just so long and fast and holy cow. She totally clears the fence like a spring.
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