Sharon Blakeney-McDonald
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Thanks Judy… very well explained and yes leadership is very important. I still have a lot to learn.
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Congrats to you with owning your 3mths old terrier. I had a similar problem with my German Shepherd when he was a pup but it was more to do with him teething and biting hands continually. How I overcome this was I exchange my hands for a toy, Kong, etc for him to chew on instead. You could try exchanging two tugs for each other for him to learn to release one for the other. From what you have written here it also sound like your pup as barrier frustration. Mike would be able to advice you on the best way to deal with this… I’m still learning myself when it comes to some concerns with our dogs or their training.
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Thank you Mike… I’ve learned a valuable lesson here. One is once your dog understand what the correction is and when to use a reward due to your training system then teaching a dog new appropriate behaviours or replacing wrong behaviours with incompatible behaviours can be achieved… amazingly very quickly too. The second aspect you have taught me is knowing when to give the correction and when to give the reward and why it works. You are incredible teacher and this is the first time I’ve walked away from a dog trainer knowing what he meant and why it works. Without knowing the why for learning obedience exercises then how do you know when to put them into practise and for what reason. I understand now the importance of learning your whole training system from your very first exercise of handling the leash correctly to the proofing stage of being able to control your dog… especially before attempting to advance to any protection dog training that you may be planning to do. I’m so pleased that I came here to be a member of your site.
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I like to give an update of Tazer progress, following Mike advice here of “leave it” for Tazer to disengaged on a perceived target and “heel” for when I have no choice but to pass what is triggering Tazer aggression off in public. Following Mike advice I am now starting to see huge improvement, and feel confident with time plus practising regularly in those situations Tazer aggressive behaviour will be overcome.
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Thanks Mike for your positive comments on my training of Tazer “quiet” command… very encouraging. I’m not sure on how to teach the “leave” command… could you please advise me on the training method for this command. I do use the command on Ara but I don’t know how she was taught the command as I brought her already trained as a protection dog. The other reason I was trying to teach Tazer the “quite” command is when I’m driving in the car he go’s at motorbike riders that come close to our car or when I’m stationary in the car towards pedestrians, horse-riders or anything that comes too close to the car. The remote collar would be the best tool for me to use in these situations but Tazer only been taught basic obedience commands with the remote collar. Without him knowing a command I can use to be able to correct he aggressive behaviour in the car/out in public I would need to teach him the command first before I could correct him with the remote for he aggressive behaviour. (I hope I explained that right then). Tazer behaviour of guarding isn’t acceptable behaviour to display without my say so and can be a risk to the public. The trainers before I started seeking help through researching on the net had advice me to leave him at home or put a muzzle on him… people can still report me for having a dangerous dog when he is still demonstrating aggression wearing the muzzle. I’ll follow up on your suggestion of doing a journal for Tazer as this may be the best way to assist me further with him.
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So Victoria Stilwell is an actress but consider herself after a year to be a dog trainer. Why give her any credibility when she has been caught out being a fraud. Isn’t it evident enough that she preaches what she does for her own benefit and not for the welfare of the dogs or the community.
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I would be interest in seeing the videos examples to this question… have you been able to do any yet Mike?
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Great video… Looks like Frankie is getting another beat down and a few others there. This agitator is sooo good at making it look for real.
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I like to give this a go with my dogs… I ‘ve taught my dogs to look at me so it would be interesting to see if they would follow where I looked. Unfortunately I don’t have the helpers to try it out. Great training guys.
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What a great way to teach your dog how to do a “watch” command. Is there any another way to teach this command if you don’t have helpers available?
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Oops, reread the article – seems more important on how you raise your dog within your home.
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How devastating for the boy to lose he life. Sadly it takes this type of tragic for many pet owners to realise this can happen to them with their family pet. The “dog breed behaviour’ chart in the instruction videos would be a good resource to help with pet owners selection.
