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Originally Posted by livingdustmops  Hi Joy - I was going to send you these articles over the weekend as I knew you would be interested. One more educated resource to help us with some of our dogs.
It is always amazing to me that people will still train in the "old" ways when it clearly could be harming dogs. I am doing research on what determines personalities in dogs (some is genetics and some is envioronment) and how this can help rescue dogs that have been abused.
I really wish more people would study behavior in their dogs to help them overcome different situations. Watching a tv show is a short cut that could harm your dog if you don't understand fear aggression, negative reinforcement to name two. I doubt many people know that Cesar runs his problem dogs 6 to 8 hours a day....any dog would be well behaved if they are exhausted at the end of the day. I bought all his books/DVD's so I can learn more but at the end of the day I picked up a few things but for my Yorkies I would never use his methods. I prefer positive training and trying to understand the genetic makeup of a dog. |
If you are looking into the genetics of aggression have a look at Sophi yins work it on line somewhere and she out of Califaonia she with others are running DNA markers for fear through pure breed lines and fears is the starter of aggression as you know.
Also a book by fuller and scott on genetics and stages of develpoment... let me know I can send you the title..working on no sleep for five days can not find it in my brain right now.
I am about I hope to take on a big boy dog that has fear concerns and mold compared to my girl aggersion do to poor soical skills. I hope.
What is not also under stood is that dogs that tired can react with more fear as the brain can not process input as well as if they are not over tired.
also that they are more mentally fragil if exhausted and rough stuff can do more harm... just like prisoners being questions are not allow rest and get fragil.
I can not read his stuff and find it not worth it but I do turn down the volume on the show and watch the body language. learn a great deal from it all the time.
Miss talking to you if I get this new one will need to talk a little he is reading body language wise off..he does one thing but his body says another but will see more as he settles in.
JL