June 23rd, 2011
We are going to give your labrador 100% of your undivided attention, in a four-minute exercise, which will be exercising the dominant and submissive nature of your pet’s personality.
These “natures of your dogs personality” are easily found through the positions and postures in relationship to your, as you and your dog perform your labrador training routines.
Each position will show particular types of body language from your dog (and vice versa, so act natural). If you pay attention, you can see how well or not your dog is relating to you.
Each exercise or command in the following text will articulate what must be paid attention to, and how to make this knowledge work for you and your dog. We have special routines to break stress and tension, as well as methods to express dominance and elicit strict, exacting, discipline.
You will develop a feel for these as you progress through this system. Any time you are in doubt about what your next move should be, just relax, take your time to mentally review the exercise you are performing, and then execute the correct move.
Everything has a particular progression.
Although this is, admittedly, a very complicated system, there’s absolutely no need to worry about mastering the technique and psychology involved.
It will become very clear as you begin to work on it.
Just as we will expect your dog to learn something new with practice, you too, will develop a sense for what we are doing, but only with practice.
You’ll develop a “feel” or “sense” for what we’re doing. The pieces fit together, like a jig-saw puzzle, and, like a jig-saw puzzle, you start by dumping the whole thing out in front of you and then try to put it in some sort of order. Think of our method like that puzzle.
And just so it doesn’t come as a surprise, things change here, according to what has been mastered.
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April 12th, 2011
We’ll be approaching our obedience training program as a piecemeal quilt, that is to say, that any one point has got to fit within the entire context, and as you develop skills, you may “mix and match” commands to suit your needs or situation at that moment.
But we do have a procedure that is very much like the kind of steps you would follow as though you were starting your car or computer system.
These steps are like your keys to your car or password to your files.
It’s unlikely your dog, when trained, will listen to anyone that does not approach the “control panel” to his mind, without the “keys” imbedded in this series of commands.
He’ll understand that anyone asking business of him is not approved, without “them keys.”
Practice on a daily basis should not exceed four minutes to accomplish the exercises.
Practice needs to be performed at least every second day. With problem dogs, this is critical.
If you are using this training to suffice your dogs emotional needs, whether it be anxiety from separation, aggression, or stress from any source, the benefits of this exercise will wear off in three days, at least until some time down the road.
Also, dogs do tend to forget a lesson if it has not been re enforced for several days.
After the initial labrador training period, practice may be limited to once a week.
When your dog is fully trained, and his behavior is not an issue or goal for improvement, a brief exercise should be formally done once a week, later once a month.
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January 11th, 2011
COMMUNICATION:
Dogs can communicate in a variety of interesting ways. They often have a pretty good sense of humor, and are often caught in lies and deception.
Dogs need not be as obvious as to bark to make known their wishes. Sometimes growling may only be an effort at vocalization, with no malice intended.
Subtle attempts, like maybe a shuffle of feet, a wrinkle on the face or brow, panting or chatter of teeth, in the dogs mind, are clear-cut messages.
Take notice and he will do the rest.
He will be consistent, although the same signals/signs/gestures may apply to several needs.
EXAMPLE:
Your dog chatters his teeth.
Look at him and say, “good boy, what do you want?”
He may say; “It’s about time you noticed me!”
SOLUTION:
Ignore his sarcasm.
Ask if he wants to do this, that, or the other thing, and when he gives a big sigh, DO IT!
I’ve quoted other dog trainers and authors on dog behavior in the misstatement that “dogs don’t think.”
In light of the fact that I’ve also have quoted and subverted most of their training techniques as nonsensical and ineffective, let’s not get boggled down in semantics.
My philosophy is based on experience and observation:
The abilities to think, rationalize and solve problems are learned qualities.
By challenging our dogs to think, they develop the areas of the brain where thinking, rationalizing and solving problems occur.
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