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Best Wishes,
Pamela Johnson
Clicker dog training tips, articles, and information
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Canine Freestyle & Clicker Basic Online Classes
What people are saying about Pam’s Dog Academy Online Classes...
- I am so happy for learning about all the positive ways of dog training and I am also very happy for your course which is a lot of fun! You are a great dog and human trainer!
- For $40 there is a lot of information and a lot of bang for your buck.
- I found the course to be comprehensive and educational and covers a lot of great foundation material.
- The concepts are solid and easy to understand.
- Pam found ways to give positive informative feedback which made me want to go back and read for more comments. She engaged me in conversation and I felt like she wanted to get to know me and my dog better but more than that … I felt she genuinely enjoyed watching us work. I felt connected to her and to her course.
- It was informative watching other class mates videos and helpful to read Pamela’s positive feedback and helpful suggestions.
- The video element makes the class enjoyable...
- I liked being able to go back to the first exercise and reread comments and look back at concepts.
- Clicker Basics is a really great course!
Monday, January 28, 2013
How to be humble & respected
- Use the response “It’s My Pleasure” when someone thanks you for doing something.
- Use the response “I’d be honored” when someone asks you to help them or do something with them.
- Listen more than you talk
- Count to 3 before adding to a conversation to ensure the other person is done
- Be willing to follow another person in conversation even if you don’t get to talk about your idea
- Always offer to improve someone else’s idea and give them credit
- Give credit for other’s ideas that you are carrying through on
- Ask others for the opinion of others
- Ask others to join conversations and contribute
- It’s OK to be wrong and so admit it
- Admit when you don’t understand or know something
- Appreciate others who learn something quickly and say so
- Be quick to apologize when you do something wrong
- Study moral principles
- Use moral principles to guide you
- You are God’s creation, not your own
- Recognize your talents as gifts, not your own ability
- Know how your skills have only be developed by the help of others
- Share your own knowledge to pass on what you have learned
- Pass on thanks when you receive it to those who helped you achieve what was thanked
- Value other people’s time as much as your own
- Never equate time spent with people to a dollar value
- Don’t boast about your achievements, let others recognize them instead
- Keep your goals to yourself
- Help other people with their goals
- Realize the potential in others
- Know that timing is everything and everyone excels at different times in life
- Being the 1st follower is often the best way to lead
- Since winning isn’t everything, you don’t have to win
- Recognize that you have faults
- Remember you are a sinner (in other words, you are no better or worse than anyone else)
- Ignore first impressions of people
- Give others the benefit of the doubt
- Provide positive and encouraging feedback instead of criticism
- Make a choice to act more humbly
- Practice at least one humble act each day
- Be grateful for successes without boasting about them
- Know how to accept praise with a simple thank you, don’t elaborate on it or talk more about it
- Recognize the individualism of others and yourself, there is no need to conform
- Share your core values and live them accordingly regardless of the circumstances
- Prioritize things in your life and rate your actions on whether to followed that priority or not
- Rate other people as first, be less significant
- Forgive those who wrong you and move on without revenge or lashing back
- Serve others and not yourself first
- Seek wisdom, which is knowledge of what is true coupled with just judgment of action
- Recognize and know that you know little and there is always more to learn
- Avoid explosive reactions, and subside any aggression
- Accept new ideas and change, not being stuck on what you knew before
- Teach all that you can for the benefit of others
- Learn from and model the life of the most humble teachers in history (Jesus, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Buddha, etc)
- Author unknown
Saturday, January 12, 2013
10 tips on how to calm an over excited dog...
When you are training and working with your dog, have you ever noticed if he becomes more excited with certain tricks (behaviors)? Does one particular behavior seem to send him into a whining, barking frenzy?
What could have happened is that when you originally trained the trick, he was doing a whine or bark at that time, but you were so excited that he was getting it, that you ignored the bark and whine. Chances are you captured and trained those unwanted behaviors too. The dog has attached the over aroused whine or bark with that particular trick.
Here are a few ideas on what to do:
1. Do not reward the dog for the behavior if he is barking or whining while doing that particular trick. Wait until he does the behavior without barking and then reward.
2. Go back a few steps and retrain the trick. Breaking it down into smaller chunks and set the dog up for success each step of the way.
3. If the trick is on a verbal cue and that seems to get the dog excited, then work on changing the verbal cue. This might just be enough to change the dogs emotional response to that particular behavior.
4. Try doing the trick from a different position. For example: If you normally start a leg weave from your heel position and that gets the dog overly excited, try starting the leg weave from your right side instead.
5. End the training session for a few seconds as soon as the dog barks or whines, then in about 30 seconds to a minute try again. Calmly do this, do not get upset or angry, just simply say "all done" and stop training for a bit.
6. Work on something that is calm prior to doing the trick that is exciting. Then do the exciting trick and immediately go back to the calm trick. Ping pong back and forth to keep the dog in a calm state of mind.
7. Use calming signals to try to calm your dog down. Calm yawns, soft eye blinks, small lip licks, and turn your head away slightly.
8. Use a Thunder Shirt to keep your dog calm, but don't use it as a cure all. You might need to use many of these other suggestions too.
9. End a training session before the dog gets over aroused.
10. Start a training session with a calm dog. If your dog is never calm, then that is a whole different lesson. :) I'll have to address how to do that another time.
Keep in mind that not all dogs respond the same way. My Border Collie Bandit loves it when I am energetic and vocal. However, my Border Collie Twix can get too over aroused if I am energetic and vocal. So, with Twix I am quiet and calmer when I work with him.
Have a great day!
Pam
Monday, January 7, 2013
Canine Freestyle & Disc Dogging Video Titling
Pam’s Dog Academy now offers dog sport video titling opportunities...
Canine Freestyle Trick Titles
Canine Freestyle Routine Titles
Disc Dogging Titles
Why: You are able to earn titles in a STRESS FREE environment of your choice, at your own leisure, and without spending an entire weekend at a trial. Maybe you live too far away from live competitions or they are just not offered in your area. Video competitions are great for those with shy or reactive dogs.
When:You can submit your video at anytime you would like.
Who: Every person and Every dog from ANYWHERE around the World can participate.
How: Film, upload your footage to YouTube, and submit video’s in Canine Freestyle Tricks, Canine Freestyle Routines, Disc Dogging and Agility (coming soon) to earn titles with your dog.
Where: All videos will be submitted to Pam’s Dog Academy via email or mail.
Follow all the directions in the rules & procedures...
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