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I've been hunting up "missing from the 'Net" blog-posts by La Donaldson, one of my most-respected mentors - we've never met, but i think Jean is a marvel & a wonder, since she's a heckuva trainer but also a crackerjack science-translator for APOs & fellow trainers alike.
APOs are Average Pet-Owners, whose eyes tend to glaze if U foolishly try to explain CER / conditioned emotional response -- e-g, this dog goes rigid every time he's on the vet's exam table & can't be auscultated because he growls nonstop & must be muzzled or he'll bite - behaviorally, that's defensive aggro, but emotionally, that's fear; reinforcement schedules -- ex, every compliant sit or only every STRAIGHT compliant sit? - the 1st is one-to-one, the 2nd is differential or contingent on criterion; & unconditioned response -- e-g, seeing humans eat makes dogs salivate.
God bless the noble mind that conceived & deployed the Wayback Machine - without it, many 'Net treasures would be gone forever. // The Web isn't a library with Dewey-decimal storage & hard copies, it's evanescent e-storage & can be altered on a whim, or simply deleted; a business goes bankrupt, & their website evaporates as if it never existed. The Wayback Machine is snapshots of former web-pages as they were, at the time. It's 'Net history - as long as U have the former weblink, & there was a snapshot taken at some point, U can retrieve that missing page. Hurrah!
While tracking down a wonderful blog-post that's vanished, i found another - & it featured another of my fave fellow-trainers, Leonard Cecil, who began as we all do as an APO, & became a trainer when he found himself with an 'untrainable' dog. Leonard started a collaborative PDF of trainers who use science-based training, explaining that they have zero interest in being "pack leaders" - just a fun thing. The idea began with Nando Brown, another pos-R trainer, & Leonard's contribution was to collect them in a single place.
It had morphed from the trainers POV to their dogs' "speaking up".
This is Jean's contribution -
For the record, Jean loves Chows - not a breed known for compliance, co-operation, tact, or even bare tolerance. If a Chow-chow doesn't like what U are doing, no matter how necessary or pain-free it might be, the 1st inkling for unobservant persons could be teeth puncturing their skin. :b Oops. Chows have a very pointed way of expressing a negative opinion.
Chows are also not very communicative - which is why 9 out of 10 groomers hate Rough-coated Chows, as they're in a hurry & can't be arsed to notice that the dog just went still & tightened up, the Chow equivalent of screaming, "Look out! - I've had it, & i'm gonna BLOW MY TOP!..."
APOs are Average Pet-Owners, whose eyes tend to glaze if U foolishly try to explain CER / conditioned emotional response -- e-g, this dog goes rigid every time he's on the vet's exam table & can't be auscultated because he growls nonstop & must be muzzled or he'll bite - behaviorally, that's defensive aggro, but emotionally, that's fear; reinforcement schedules -- ex, every compliant sit or only every STRAIGHT compliant sit? - the 1st is one-to-one, the 2nd is differential or contingent on criterion; & unconditioned response -- e-g, seeing humans eat makes dogs salivate.
God bless the noble mind that conceived & deployed the Wayback Machine - without it, many 'Net treasures would be gone forever. // The Web isn't a library with Dewey-decimal storage & hard copies, it's evanescent e-storage & can be altered on a whim, or simply deleted; a business goes bankrupt, & their website evaporates as if it never existed. The Wayback Machine is snapshots of former web-pages as they were, at the time. It's 'Net history - as long as U have the former weblink, & there was a snapshot taken at some point, U can retrieve that missing page. Hurrah!
While tracking down a wonderful blog-post that's vanished, i found another - & it featured another of my fave fellow-trainers, Leonard Cecil, who began as we all do as an APO, & became a trainer when he found himself with an 'untrainable' dog. Leonard started a collaborative PDF of trainers who use science-based training, explaining that they have zero interest in being "pack leaders" - just a fun thing. The idea began with Nando Brown, another pos-R trainer, & Leonard's contribution was to collect them in a single place.
It had morphed from the trainers POV to their dogs' "speaking up".
This is Jean's contribution -
For the record, Jean loves Chows - not a breed known for compliance, co-operation, tact, or even bare tolerance. If a Chow-chow doesn't like what U are doing, no matter how necessary or pain-free it might be, the 1st inkling for unobservant persons could be teeth puncturing their skin. :b Oops. Chows have a very pointed way of expressing a negative opinion.
Chows are also not very communicative - which is why 9 out of 10 groomers hate Rough-coated Chows, as they're in a hurry & can't be arsed to notice that the dog just went still & tightened up, the Chow equivalent of screaming, "Look out! - I've had it, & i'm gonna BLOW MY TOP!..."
