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Cross-training 102: a valuable skill -- This game helps to build drive by enticing the dog to chase an attractive toy; it also aids in getting the dog comfortable with working in close proximity to the handler, from either side of the handler. How to give your dog a bath --
Bathing a pet can be as pleasant as going to the spa or it can be a rodeo event. Distract, Command, Praise --
is a gentle and positive way of reminding your dog of who is "alpha." Fred Welham Interview Meet an agility pioneer Sorting Out A Contaminated Start Here is a step by step description of how to teach your dog to scent discriminate when presented with a contaminated start. Helping Shy Dogs Blossom Using Targeting (pdf file) ------------------- Website of Stutler in Tokyo- check out his artistic talent. Interesting website Are you a Sherlock Holmes buff? Since my dog's name is Holmes, I have to put this one in here. Check out the comments page. Was it jokes that defeated the communism? http://www.paleofuture.com/ Definr online dictionary -- very fast --------------- -------------------
Dennis Lehane's *Shutter Island* is a very intriguing mystery, but it's
a little chubby around the middle, esp. compared with his earlier books,
the "Patrick Kenzie" series. Lehane could use a crash course in George
V. Higgins to learn how to have the dialog tell the story, and a seminar
in Elmore Leonard to learn how to pare things down. (How many sentences -------------------- Woof and Word Press- The Canine Behaviour Blog. Barbara is the author of Canine Behavior: A Photo Illustrated Handbook. She invites reader to join her in a lively discussion about deciphering canine behavior. -------------------- Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. A cult is a religion with no political power. -------------------- Geoff Stern for providing the links, articles, and quotes. If you have any interesting links, send them to natalie@doglinks.co.nz and your name will be here:) |
, which I once regarded highly. So I had to buy a
replacement copy and, of course, reread it, if somewhat skimmingly. It
seems dated now, the proselytizing against "corrections" and the
preachiness. Maybe it's still a good book for beginners to read as a way
of reinforcing the exigency of building a *relationship* with a dog as
logically prior to skills training; and of course it was bittersweet to 
* is a sequel to his western,
*
* -- sort of a "Spenser" thriller moved from current Boston to
the 19th C. frontier, six-guns instead of wonder-nines, horses instead
of motorcars.