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Originally Posted by leashedForLife
yeah, the Levels are so cool!
sorry U got caught in it, tho - lack of sleep is a bummer.
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I have an odd body-clock anyway, not helped by a rather traumatic last few days
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dogs just have a blast with pos-R, i get so tired of the yank-n-yell brigade. sheesh, my mentor (from 1964) would be ** appalled! ** by Cesar Millan and his hanging, poking, prodding, and hands-that-bite! the dude has single-handedly taken dog-training back more than 40 years.
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I know what you mean. I trained my family's dogs in my late teens when it was jerk-and-choke. Have a dog again now after a break of two decades, luckily I already knew about positive reinforcement and clicker training but even so it has been mindblowing, I simply cannot see why people still use the old ways. I was even on UK TV two years ago with mine, took part in a reality show training novice dogs to do HWTM (in front of millions lol), all achieved with clicker & lure, my dog was only 18 months old at the time. There's a video link of that somewhere on this site.
I will be starting the Training levels soon, have joined the yahoogroup but the next few weeks are going to be a bit stressful for me so I may wait a while (cut a long story short, a close friend passed away on Friday night, possibly murder).
On the other hand perhaps it's what I need right now, if I can find the Zen.
Love the comment about the gator! Leopard or tiger for me, I think.