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Article in Sunday Tasmanian

Thanks to Ann Boxhall and "The Sunday Tasmanian" for including a link to my website at the end of the Pets column on the 16th of November.

It was a great piece, and Ann conveyed the message I tried to portray in my original article very well. Particularly with all the debate about Breed Specific Legislation in Tasmania recently, I'd like people to be well informed.

Separation Anxiety - Gone By Christmas

There are two behavior problems that dog owners tend to misdiagnose more than any other. The first is "dominance", which is generally not a behavior problem in itself and rarely the cause of the actual problem behavior the dog owner complains about; and the second is "separation anxiety".

What to Do if Your Dog is Stolen

Caryl Wolff from http://www.DoggieManners.com has written a 23 page manual on "what to do if your dog is stolen" and she wants to give it to you to get the word out!

How Could You?

Copyright Jim Willis 2001, all rights reserved

When I was a puppy I entertained you with my antics and made you laugh. You called me your child and despite a number of chewed shoes and a couple of murdered throw pillows, I became your best friend. Whenever I was "bad," you'd shake your finger at me and ask "How could you?" - but then you'd relent and roll me over for a bellyrub.

How To Motivate Yourself to Train or Exercise Your Dog (or practically anything else!)

Want to know the secret to self-motivation?

It's all about reinforcement, and breaking the task down into tiny little achievable tasks. Here are a few tricks that practically guarantee success, obliterate procrastination, and make doing things like exercising or training your dog seem effortless.

How to Teach Your Dog to Go Left or Go Right

Click here for article (will take you to clickertraining.com)

The above article contains step-by-step instructions for teaching your dog to Go Left or Go Right. It starts off with simple targetting, then the concept is generalised so that it can be used in a variety of different situations with very little extra training.

Dog Laws (sent to me by Kym)

To all dog owners:

I wish I knew how to get through dog owner's apathy while special interests are decimating our rights to dog ownership. Almost all lists (thankfully not this one, DDBS is to be commended that they do not count this information as OT), refuse to allow ANY notices regarding dog laws, much less discussion. So too many people take these proposed laws at face value and do not see where these are all packaged with nice names like (Ca Healthy Pet). Now who is going to be against a healthy pet?

It is very frustrating to those of us in the know when dog people look at the wording in a bill and think it is benign, not knowing that certain words missing or present in a bill tell how it will be enforced and what the consequences will be.

A current example:

Aidan Interviewed by KosmarEnterprises.com

Jana at Kosmar Enterprises recently interviewed the Editor of Positive Petzine, Aidan Bindoff, to ask about some behaviors that are useful to prevent sickness or medical emergencies. Here is an extract of that interview:

Kosmar: What common mistakes do dog owners make when trying to train their dogs out of
these behaviors?

AB: By far the biggest problem is in not being proactive. If you wait until
your dog goes to eat something nasty and try to punish them, it's too
late. If you stay ahead of the game you can stay positive, and avoid
all sorts of problems that might crop up.

Kosmar: What would you tell someone with the free-spirited dog that may be a bit more
difficult to train? Perhaps a dog that eats the sofa cushions, for example.

Aidan Interviewed by Dog-Training-Tutorial.com

Rodrigo Trigosso, editor and webmaster of Dog-Training-Tutorial.com recently interviewed Aidan Bindoff, the editor of Positive Petzine. Here is an extract of that interview which you can find here.

RT: In your opinion, what is the real advantage of clicker training over traditional training? Do you think "dog-friendly" is enough reason to move from traditional training to clicker dog training?

AB: I think it is. If you have several methods that all work, why not pick the one that is the most fun for both dog and owner? But then, I had an early training experience which made that abundantly clear to me. If I had trained other dogs successfully with traditional training and had happy, willing workers I would be less inclined to make the switch.

New Book Review Feature

We've recently added the ability for registered users of this site to contribute Book Reviews. In the main menu click on "Contribute", then click on "Book Review".

It enables you to post as much or as little detail as you like. I added this feature so that we can all help each other choose (or avoid) books that we have read.

I know you can get book reviews anywhere, and the most likely place to read a book review is on a website that sells books, so I'm not expecting huge numbers of book reviews to suddenly turn up on our site. But therein lies one of the main advantages of contributing or reading a book review on this site - we are a community of like-minded individuals here to learn about a narrow range of topics and we're not offering books for sale.

So if you have read a dog training book and would recommend it to others who WILL be interested in what you have to say about it, please take advantage of this feature.

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