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06-07-2009, 07:08 PM | #1 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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| Next best thing to Cesar Milan in Phoenix!!! So, I just had to tell all of my fellow phoenicians about the trainers I found to work with Tucker's barking on walks and in Petsmart when we run into other dogs. To be honest, I always thought the whole psychological training, calm & submissive, caesar milan thing was complete phoey! But . . . these trainers (Babs & Linda) convinced me to let them come for a 15 minute free evaluation. After meeting them I decided to give it a try. Our first session was last Wednesday. I noticed a change right away on our walks when using the techniques they taught me. In fact, that same night, about an our after the session, I took Tucker on a walk and we encountered two little dogs that barked at tucker as soon as they saw him. Usually, tucker would bark back until i drug him out of sight. That night, he let out one solitary bark, I used the techniques, and we were back on our walk! Then today, we went to a dog park, with TONS of distractions and he behaved beautifully. The training really made a difference, and it's nice to know I can always call them or email them in the future if I have any more questions. For anyone in or around the Phoenix AZ area, I highly recommend them!! The're called B & L Dog Training. They come to you at your house or anywhere you want to meet up. Their email is nobely777@yahoo.com and the number is 480-516-3349
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06-07-2009, 07:32 PM | #2 |
My little Shadow Donating YT Member | Wow.....I know u must be so relieved & excited about the changes! Wish my daughter could find a great trainer for my granpup. He's the best, except for the BARKING!! WAY TO GO TUCKER!!
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06-08-2009, 07:50 AM | #3 |
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| I would like to know what they actually told you to do. Jl
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06-08-2009, 07:55 AM | #4 |
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| I'd like to know the technique too! Maybe we can follow what you learned ! Please !!!
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06-08-2009, 08:00 AM | #5 |
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| Me too I'd like to know the technique!
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06-08-2009, 08:12 AM | #6 |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | It's amazing how fast a dog will learn to respond differently when you respond differently. Wish humans were as quick to learn!
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06-09-2009, 07:59 AM | #7 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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| I sent the trainers a link to this thread so they can come on and answer any questions. I know they can do so much better at explaining the techniques than I ever could. Kinda hard to put into words, you know?
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06-09-2009, 05:37 PM | #8 |
My little Shadow Donating YT Member | Really looking forward to that! Thanks!!
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07-21-2009, 08:17 PM | #9 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: phoenix,Az USA
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| Answering Next best thing to Cesar Milan in Phoenix... It was so fulfilling to help April balance her beloved Tucker to make both of their lives more satisfying and happy. Babs. my partner, is a "dog whisperer" and has helped just about every breed and age dog and its family live better lives. B&L Dog Training offers psychological training, teaching you as owners how to be the pack leader. Every dog sees itself as a member of the pack, in most cases, his human family. Most dogs are really not cut out for the job and get unbalanced, sometimes seem neurotic or compulsive about things , because they try to take the role of pack leader. Once you learn how to establish yourself as the leader with calm assertive energy and learn how to properly walk and manage your dog, who is now calm and submissive, it is amazing how quickly a dog's mind can be made to move forward and old habits die quickly. Dogs live in the moment and so we do that as well as we interact with them. Specific techniques we use include teaching the proper way to walk your dog, claiming your space, and how to establish yourself as "Pack Leader" |
07-22-2009, 01:12 PM | #10 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: phoenix,Az USA
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| Re: Next best thing to Cesar Milan in Phoenix Just want to continue to answer people's questions about how B&L Dog Training worked with April's adorable yorkie, Tucker. Tucker would bark and get so excited when he saw other dogs that April simply avoided them and stop taking Tucker to the Pet Smart and the dog park. Tucker also had an aversion to the vacuum cleaner and would attack it madly whenever April tried to clean her rugs. We were able to help her with all of these problems by teaching her training cues and proper walking techniques to let Tucker know that she was now taking over as pack leader. Babs and I first walked with April and Tucker to show her how to keep him in a calm submissive state, even when other dogs are around. We went to PetSmart with her, too, but unfortunately, there were no dogs to practice with that day. We then met at a local dog park with her several days later and once we put Tucker in a calm submissive state and he now understood that he is not the pack leader, he had a delightful time with no stress on both sides of the park, with the little dogs and with the big dogs. We worked back at the apartment to help April claim the vacuum cleaner as hers and soon Tucker would sit and look at it rather than aggressively attack it. We are glad to have been of help. If you want more info., you can contact us at 480-516 3349. We do offer free evaluations with no obligations and would love to work with you and your great little dogs. |
07-26-2009, 06:01 PM | #11 | |
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07-27-2009, 12:46 PM | #12 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: phoenix,Az USA
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| What a dog is and is not : response I was really surprised to see the reply to our blog about using psychological training with all dogs as they are pack members, first and foremost. Any research done will educate you to the fact that dogs, like wolves and coyotes, all operate in the same manner. They are pack animals; they have a pack leader who, like chickens in a pecking order, are often the largest, strongest and oldest canines in the pack. This writer questions what science has proven. Every pack has a pack leader. For dogs living with humans, the dog thinks it is the pack leader if no one else asserts that leadership. It is a simple fact, not something made up by the many successful dog trainers in the world who employ it to balance dogs in a human family situation. I would direct the writer to Cesar Milan's web site to peruse his many books on the subject. As evidenced by the happy success of working with April and Tucker, psychological training does work, almost immediately. |
07-27-2009, 08:59 PM | #13 |
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| Well since my understanding of what a dog is is current as I do attend confrences on dog training and alike and read all I can get my hands on and work with professionals in the field. Writen by acredited people of scince. Here is my understanding. Dr Mech the wolf expert that has done more work with wolves then anyone alive has a You tube post that clear says that the wolf is not now nor ever been a pack animal. Coppinger as in Raymond and Lonre have done extensive work with dogs in the wild and have published a dog that also clearly states that dogs are not a pack animal but live in the wild as singles and maybe the pups. As the resouces do not alow the development of packs. That any fighting on a resouce site as in teh dump is over food not aplha.... and that once they leave the dump they do so as singles. Ok what else....psychological that would take not a lay person but one that packs the DVM or the PHD in behaviour like Dr Dunbar or Dr Yin or Dr McConnnell or Dr Dodman and many others that have trained long and hard to do this. Finally a wolf is not a dog and a dog is not a wolf. Looking to them to raise and work with our dogs makes as much sence as I am a related to a great ape therefore I must raise my human childern in the way they do. WE are genetically closer to an ape then a dog is to a wolf. We need to focus on the dog as it is not an unreal picture warped by wrongly understood scince and forgoing anything that is new as it always been done the alpha way. "The truth about an animal is far more beautiful than all the myths woven about it." Konrad Loranz Best of training. JL
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07-27-2009, 10:25 PM | #14 |
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| Dr Mech's speech. Conversation with Ray & Lorna Coppinger, Authors Ray Coppinger, PhD Coppingers work. The Anti-Cesar Millan / Ian Dunbar's been succeeding for 25 years with lure-reward dog training; how come he's been usurped by the flashy, aggressive TV host? Ian Dunbar just a little there is lots by the statesman of dog training on this subject. JL
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07-28-2009, 10:07 AM | #15 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: phoenix,Az USA
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| We must agree to disagree I have studied dogs for years as well and all of my scientific resources and experience continue to support our psychhological training as a wonderful tool to help dog owners. We have worked with pit bulls,pugs,yorkies,a Canary Island fighting dog, pomeranians, chows, wiemeraners, German shepards, labradoodles, just to name a few, and all have been successfully trained and balanced using our methods. As evidenced by April's blog and Tucker's improvements, it does works very well with Yorkies. I would hate for your opinion to discourage people from finding help from B&L Dog Training. We can just agree to disagree. |
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