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I have seen this lady in action when I went on a weekend seminar she did over in the UK. She really knows her stuff about dog body language and how they communicate. Much can be learned from a person like her. She has no fancy hype or seductive voiceover on her videos but what you do see is honest to goodness canine body language explained and shown. I am a big fan of hers I have to say. Sadly no tv channel has ever cottoned onto her - I don't suppose she has the sleek publicity machine backing her up as one certain person does but her books and DVDs are available online, from Amazon and Crosskeys Books.

She's really good - I'm currently sorting my application to become part of her trainers society, i didnt realise she was doing a weekend over here, gutted!

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Thanks for posting the links - she sounds like an interesting person.

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It was quite a number of years ago when the weekend seminar was that I went on. It was hosted by Sheila Harper - Sheila Harper She runs courses and seminars at several different venues (on the Courses link) I have been on several and they are good - came away from the Turid weekend with re-opened eyes and life has never been the same since as it taught me how to really observe what dogs were trying to communicate. Helped me no end when I was a dog warden especially!

Caroline, thanks this was such a great thread, for those of us who want to understand dogs to the best of our abilities. I've had a few chuckles on couple of occasions, by calming other ppl's nervous dogs down to surprise of owners.

It's also helped me a lot understand, why my dog isn't happy about certain other dog's approaches (deficient greeting signalling).

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DT&B - Glossary of acronyms & jargon terms.
Encouraging good behaviours, whilst consistently avoiding practise of bad alternatives leads to extinction of the bad. So if dog sits 6/10 times it doesn't sit 4/10 times, encouraging with the right rewards (positively-reinforcing) enough for 9/10 times means it now fails to sit only 1/10 times, sit 10/10 means...

I think this lady's a genius - thanks for the links

Thanks for the links Caroline.

I'm another fan, have read Calming Signals, which was excellent, and her other stuff is on my "to do" list. Would love to do one of her seminars at some point.

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"For all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world"

many, many years ago, i was at the USA-apdt annual conference, held that year in Memphis, Tennessee -
which put it & me on the same side of the continent, & i had the money to go, oh, joy!

Turid was one of many speakers whose seminars i attended, but hers was the most ground-breaking i recall -
and she spoke in a language not her own, with an accent, plus there were technical difficulties: no microphone,
slides that did not want to co-operate, and so on.

when i went in, i noticed that [as usual] women vastly outnumbered men - and as the seminar continued,
more & more men left... whether they were frustrated by the quiet delivery, impatient with the slides,
couldn't be bothered to listen to anything other than accent-free English,...? or just had another interesting
event at the same time [which happens a LOT at conferences] & went to the other event after 'sampling'
Turid, i have no idea.

but i know by the end, i had a head full of buzzing excitement & couldn't WAIT to try these ideas out -
and seeing all the bright faces of women around me & hearing the hum of discussion, i thought the fellas
who had left, missed a fantastic first-glimpse. and i'll bet they were sorry, later.

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