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4.11 Ian's Fun & Games Training Workshops

 
iWoofs Seas:  Season 4

4.10 Dealing with a Mouthy Rottweiler

A listener has a sweet three-your old Rottweiler that likes to mouth people. He’s never hurt people, but the owner recognizes that this is a potential problem. With a large, potentially intimidating dog like a Rottweiler it’s a particular pressing problem, because people may be very scared.

 
iWoofs Seas:  Season 4

4.09 It Didn't Work For Me

There are a lot of things that can go wrong in dog training, mistakes which will make any method or exercise significantly less effective.  Dog training is complex and requires some important skills, it requires some patience, persistence and timing.  Also, there’s something about dogs which tends to short-wire some people’s critical thinking skills.  Probably the biggest problem people run into is expecting too much from their dog, too quickly.  They don’t recognize the incremental improvements, which means they don’t ca

 
iWoofs Seas:  Season 4
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23 Best games for a New Puppy

Dog Star Daily®  |  Tue, 02/05/2013 - 10:21

 

Games are great!  In this episode the Dunbars talk about the best games for a new puppy, especially one that’s going to be living with a couple of young children.  Games can be used for motivating behaviors that are really useful, like Go To Your Crate or Off & Take-it.  Scent games can be a lot of fun, and quite useful, as can Go To for finding members of your family.  And really, in a family of four, any training activity can be turned into a game or competition, and probably should be.

 

 
Video iWoofs:  Season 2
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22 Premack Explained

Dog Star Daily®  |  Thu, 11/01/2012 - 15:08

The Premack principle suggests that if a dog wants to perform an activity (a high frequency behavior / eating ice cream), they’ll be willing to perform a less desirable activity (low frequency behavior / eating spinach) in order to do so.  The less desirable behavior can be reinforced by the more desirable behavior.  In dog training this means that we can harness the exciting, motivating power of our dog’s favorite behaviors as reinforcers for the behaviors we want them to do.  We can string behavior routines together to charge each step with the positive association of a primary reward.

 
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21 Stray Dogs Getting Along

Dog Star Daily®  |  Wed, 09/19/2012 - 14:03

In lots of cities and towns abroad there is often a culture where it's OK for dogs to roam around on their own unsupervised and unattended.  Very often these dogs get along very well, often without the kind of loud and unsettling aggression problems that dogs have when they're on leash with their owners.  One factor could be the extent to which many strays are intact, especially when it comes to the treatment and subsequent temperamental development of young male dogs.  Also, groups of stray dogs usually include a variety of ages and breeds, which naturally teach puppies how to behave aroun

 
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20 The Mimi Effect

Dog Star Daily®  |  Wed, 09/12/2012 - 16:13

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19 Studying Puppies and Development

Dog Star Daily®  |  Tue, 08/28/2012 - 11:05

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18 Dr. Beach and the Beagles

Dog Star Daily®  |  Mon, 08/27/2012 - 13:26

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17 German Shepherd Puppies Visit SIRIUS El Cerrito

Dog Star Daily®  |  Sat, 02/18/2012 - 11:39

We only learned of these puppies a week ago but we thought they could use some extra training and socialization, so in the spirit of the SIRIUS Puppy Raising Initiative we offered to help out.  We visited them at their home to help out with their housetraining set-up and then we scheduled a session at the SIRIUS facility in El Cerrito where they could meet some new dogs and get some one-on-one training.

 

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