Articles to change your thinking
Writing would never be considered my chosen form of communication. I can hear the coffin lid popping up and down on my English teacher’s grave. A sufficient amount of ridicule was thrown in my direction to make the process quite punishing. Which in itself has unwittingly contributed to my current teaching style, but a seemingly large amount of bribery and reinforcement (both you see!) is needed to get me onto the keyboard.
In this section you can read my monthly articles for our email newsletter. Usually I have a lot to say, and are of the opinion that if it is worth saying then it needs to be said in full detail and depth. Which is a warning that the articles are not short or frothy, and may change the way you think.
Reinforcement in the way of feedback, or requests for further explanation are received with pleasure!
Teaching Dogs
Somewhere along the way we have moved from being dog trainers to dog teachers. Less and less we try to make the dogs learn the way we would, or even guess at how they would learn. In my experience they are MUCH better at learning than people, and given the right opportunities will exceed our teaching skills. The more we can set them up to self teach, with guidelines for safety, then the more comfortable they are at learning - and the longer that learning lasts.
Teaching Dogs was the magazine Learning About Dogs published for 6 years featuring many of the top trainers from around the world. Our library contains some of the great articles plus regular training articles from the Monthly Newsletter. (use the “Join our Email list” to receive this).
In the meantime I need some outlet for those ideas nudging the side of my brain - so please return regularly, let me know what you might like to read about, or perhaps something has confused you and an explanation for everyone to read would be the perfect solution.
Ideas welcome
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