I need your training/behavior questions!
 

I'm looking for a few training and behavior questions to feature on a new page I'm adding to my website, to show case actual dog parent questions with my actual advice and responses.

I am hoping to list 5-6 question/answers on the page, so let's see what ya got for me!

Are you a dog trainer or a behaviourist ???

What qualifies you to suggest advice what methods of training do you use??

JL

Yes, actually. I am a dog trainer/behaviorist. I'm looking for questions to use with permission for my website.

I am qualified, and I do this as my profession. I use positive training methods and am a member of the APDT as well.

Love that you use positive training methods.... and they are???

Any thoughts on Learning theory???

and what is your actually training that makes you a qualified professional??
I am assuming if your saying behaviorist that your talking a vet with behaviour or a PHD packing board certified behaviourist.
Great on the ADPT be more thrilled if it was CPDT or/& truly dog friendly or IPDTA.

Had a quick look at tyour site.. your a dog trainer but does not say what you have taken for classes to make you one.
JL

I looked at your profile and see that you are a dog trainer as well. This thread was not started as a contest between trainers, or for one person to belittle someone else in an effort to feel superior. Yes, I have taken classes, and yes I use positive methods. I use reward based training. I also use teach my clients to ignore bad behaviors and reward behaviors they want to see repeated. I do not use alpha rolls, choke chains, e collars, and the like.

You do not know me, nor do you know the work I do, the clients I've helped, and my passion for what I do. You also do not know that I keep my cost much lower than any other trainer here so that people who need the help can afford it! Most people in my community can't afford the trainers here, and give up their dogs. I've given free training to people so they were able to keep their dogs.

I started this thread in an attemp to offer assistance to members here (which I have done in the past by the way.) and to showcase the question/answers on my website.

I am not going to bicker back and forth with someone who obviously has the need to try and make others feel less than them, in an attempt to feel like they are more worthy.

I am asking you questions I would ask any trainer I have working with my dogs or could work with my dogs at any time. I ask these of my vets and my behaviour people. ( you want to see a vet bristle on being asked)
I have asked and will be asking these questions of the one I am looking to work with one of my dog/s for Rally. I ask these questions of trainers with 15 to 20 years in expereince.
I asked these of the handler of the dog that is showimg, right now.

I ask to learn and to understand and to have a trainers I can pass along to others in the area you are. I ask to get to know and to understand, just who you are so that I can pas on clicents in your area when I trip over them online or in the groups that I talk training in.

If your not comfortable answering or can not that one thing but to suggest I am out to belittled that is not fair... as you said you do not know me anymore then I know you.
I asked and was trying to learn.


JL

OK time to referee :) It's OK JL, ScootieBootie is on our side.

ScootieBootie - A while back, like a year or two ago, you could barely give out positive training advice on this board without being attacked by the Cesar Milan lovers telling people to use aversive methods they didn't understand. She's just trying to make sure you aren't one of them and that's where this is coming from. It's not personal.

JL I will vouch for ScootieBootie :D

Carry on everyone! :thumbup:

Erin

Got it... Erin is one of the few that knows my pedigree and knows I was around in the days of kill the messenger of positive training was the way of life.
You want pedigree I pack a little but I know my limitations on my training and I never state I am a behaviourist but instead a trainer with understanding of behaviour...... hang on....Karen Pryor says it all behaviour....see I get around it in a politically correct.
To say you are a behavioirist you have to be PHD or a vet with it. It is a new idea and one that many in the dog training world are now coming to terms with cause of fool boy on TV.

JL

You haven't seen my thread in this section??????
 

Okay ScootieBootie OR YorkieMother........I'll take all the help I can get.

Here is a link to my latest behavior problem......

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/tra...ll-sudden.html

Thanks

I love Karen Pryor and used her methods with Izzy. That's how she became a therapy dog and now we trying Agility!!:D

Karen taught my trainer and her mother and the reason my dog is alive is because indirectly her and dr. Overall. Have you read dolphins in the wind. you should.... you like her now your jaw will drop while reading it.
Only method I use is hers with a tiny bit of lure as I not a pure clicker trainer.

JL

Here's a question. My Yorkie is house broken but every now and then she will have an accident. How do I discipline her for this? How do I prevent this from happening?

Another question:

How do I stop my 10 month old from bolting out the door for freedom? We practice the wait command when she is on leash ready to go out for a walk. No problem. We practice when the door from the kitchen to the utility room is closed, again, no problem. But let someone open the front door or door that leads to the garage (with open garage door) and out she goes. There isn't even time to use a wait command - she is lightening fast. And once outdoors, she is gone (live in town in a relatively quiet subdivision, luckily). None of the holler and run the other way and she will follow you works. For one thing, by time you make it to the street, she is already a block away, this furkid is RUNNING. You can yell her name and she doesn't even look back. She has gotten out 4 times and luckily each time there has been someone outside a couple of blocks away that she has gone up to to investigate and I have been able to catch her...... any ideas????

My sister has a "run-away" Yorkie as well. Unfortunately, my brother-in-law has had to put up and invisible fence for her. She has gone as far as around the other side of the lake. Thankfully, where she lives, everyone knows Sophia and because of her tags she has been able to be brought back home safely. My sister has train tracks behind her yard so the invisible fence was necessary. I brought Grace home when she was 12 weeks old and I have been stern with her despite the fact that I just wanted to carry her and cuddle with her every single moment of the day. I think that helped her to identify me as her "pack leader" and knew she must obey. Can you perhaps add a screen door to you door so that you are at least given fair warning and ample time to hold your dog back from running out?

You do not you ignore it and clean it up while she is out of the room.
any notice of it will only reinforce that which you do not want.

Make sure there is not UTI involved and also early onset female incontinace.

Retrain and suppor the good things more.

JL