i just tripped over this Forum thru a Google-alert, and i am happy to be here, learning my way around. stop by and say hello!

i am a trainer (most species - no primates, no marine-mammals yet) and a teacher and tutor of humans. i use LIMA standards and positive reinforcement preferentially. (LIMA = Least Invasive, Minimally Aversive.)

--- terry

terry pride, APDT-Aus, apdt#1827, CVA, IPDTA, TDF
no chokes, no chains, no ShOcK!, no prongs

Hello I'm from closer to home Canada welcome aboard. I also do not use chokes, chains or prongs...Jill

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Hiya and welcome

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ONY

http://ony-me.piczo.com

Some People Are Like Slinkies - Not Really Good For Anything But They Bring A Smile To Your Face When Pushed Down The Stairs.

hey, jill! :--)

would U happen to know any of the IPDTA folks?
the International Positive Dog-Training Assoc is HQd in Canada -
i am a member, but have yet to make it to a meeting, LOL -
thank heaven for the Net!

has it snowed there yet? i *miss* snow... -sigh-.
beaches are nice, but the 90-90 weather here is too much for me.
90-degrees and over 90% humidity is wicked.

cheers from Tidewater,
--- terry

hey, spirit! :--)

where do U call home?
i am within walking-distance of the Bay, which is great for walks and for dog-play or fetch games in the water.

- terry

Hello and welcome! UK here.... thanks so much for the links re Sue Ailsby last night, you are responsible for me not getting to sleep til 6am... lolol. Fab to see even more positive methods of training on here. Bring it on!

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Sue, Merlin & Cuba
Dog moves in mysterious ways. Be at peace, Patrick.
I've been described as a lighthouse in a bog - brilliant, but useless.

yeah, the Levels are so cool!
sorry U got caught in it, tho - lack of sleep is a bummer.

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.
his fan(atic)s here are so blind to the body-lingo the dogs exhibit during his handling (remember, as CM says, he is NOT a trainer - i agree with him! ;--) of course, he is also not *any* kind of psychologist, and if > I < was a psych of any stripe, i would be tempted to haul him into court for damage to my profession, and fraudulent claims).

i have to go send a FAX, and hit the grocery-store - mammals are such a pain, all we do is eat, LOL.
i want to be reincarnated as an alligator - once U hit 5-ft, no one but another gator or a human is a threat, and hanging out with my buds, shading + sunning to thermo-regulate, and eating once a Month or less, sounds great! the original beach-bums, gators - and then they provide pools that they dig in dry-times for all the other critters, a real community service. ;--)

maintaining our body-heat and feeding our big-brain is not cheap...
off to the bus-stop,
--- terry

darn - missed my departure-time to meet the bus, i will have to wait 45-mins. :--/

Hiya Terry,
im in the south east of the UK.

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ONY

http://ony-me.piczo.com

Some People Are Like Slinkies - Not Really Good For Anything But They Bring A Smile To Your Face When Pushed Down The Stairs.

a Net-buddy (and fellow-IPDTA-nik) is a Scotswoman, living in Ireland -
heres a big shout-out to Bev Truss, i'm thinkin of ya, bev!
;--)

she volunteers and fosters for a rescue - and right now, they are having electrical work done on the house, everything is topsy-turvy. the end result will be safer and better, but this is a trial - all the upheaval. her area is very rural.

i am in a very URBAN area, and if it were not for the beach, would feel entirely surrounded by concrete and macadam, yeesh. (as a farm-kid, i find cities ugly and stressful.) i would trade locations with bev, even WITH the rain, ha!

what amenities does Ur neighborhood offer, spirit?
any great hikes, good parks, places the dogs can romp with U?

--- terry

Welcome from North Wales/Chicago, Illinois!

I agree with your Cesar Milan dislike, he instills fear, not positive dog training!!

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