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“Arousal is not drive. Drive is a primal force at work, such as prey drive or sex drive. Dogs given a job that channels their drive are satisfied and eager to work.
Do not mistake the intense eagerness of a dog in drive for arousal. Arousal is a behaviorist's word for excitement. When I say "overaroused," | mean overexcited.”
― Control Unleashed: Creating a Focused and Confident Dog
Do not mistake the intense eagerness of a dog in drive for arousal. Arousal is a behaviorist's word for excitement. When I say "overaroused," | mean overexcited.”
― Control Unleashed: Creating a Focused and Confident Dog
“Many attention problems that people bring their dogs to me to fix are about the hanlder putting too much pressure on the dog to learn things according to an arbitrary training agenda.”
― Control Unleashed: The Puppy Program
― Control Unleashed: The Puppy Program
“I have seen students allow themselves to be intimidated by instructors, either because those instructors have put impressive titles on their own dogs, or because they have a very strong personality, or both. If you go against your gut feelings about your own dog because an instructor wants to fit a square peg into a round hole, you can set your training program months back, or worse.
The right instructor is out there for the CU dog, though he or she may be harder to find than an instructor who has had a lot of success with dogs whose personalities are closer to "bombproof."
If an instructor asks you to do something that you think is wrong for your dog, how ever, don't be so impressed by performance titles that you blindly accept the sugges-tion. With few exceptions, agility instructors are not behaviorists and don't always understand the principles of behavior modification: it's not their job to.”
― Control Unleashed: Creating a Focused and Confident Dog
The right instructor is out there for the CU dog, though he or she may be harder to find than an instructor who has had a lot of success with dogs whose personalities are closer to "bombproof."
If an instructor asks you to do something that you think is wrong for your dog, how ever, don't be so impressed by performance titles that you blindly accept the sugges-tion. With few exceptions, agility instructors are not behaviorists and don't always understand the principles of behavior modification: it's not their job to.”
― Control Unleashed: Creating a Focused and Confident Dog
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