Monday, May 16, 2011

Four days left..

So much to know before training ends in four days.  We had a long and lazy weekend.  Cesare and I worked a little on "Get Help!", probably the most important cue we can leave here with.  Walden did alright, as long as he thinks it's a game anyway.  Hope Ces will be just as cheery when he's in the middle of a cluster of seizures in the middle of the night. 

What we're watching:   Teasing the Dog  (over and over again), more talking animals and, of course, laughing animals.

What we're reading:  Canine Assistant's founder Jennifer Arnold's book that details all that she's learned about dog behavior resulting in "choice training", never force.  And a book with similar philosophy backed up by research that explains that while descendents of wolves, there is no useful reason to dominate dogs as if they were wolves: Dog Sense