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@imagebeastmarkbeast I got my dog at 2 and he was already e collar and prong collar trained. However I didn’t realize until about 6 months into owning him and working at the kennel he’s from and learning other parts of training that their methods were very compulsive disguised as balanced. They...

@imagebeastmarkbeast I personally love the obedience routines in igp a lot more than I do the ones in psa. I’ve learned a lot online from igp trainers, their rules are stricter. I wish I had a ring club near me but I don’t. The plan was to get a pdc just to say I did it but then transfer to ring...

@anxioussleeper That wasn’t the point of this post. Of course communication should come from me but i also don’t need to keep tools at a distance just because of the idea to stay in reinforcement based training. Tools don’t automatically equal punishment that’s the mindset I’m trying to get out...

@anxioussleeper Yeah I’m happy I posted this because I didn’t realize how stuck I was on specific methods. I’ve been slowly expanding. Goal is to add the ecollar back in by March or sooner and I’ve already added the prong back in for short sessions as needed and it’s given him so much clarity!

@sop1hia1 I do love the canine paradigm. Those Aussie accents are quite soothing. I think I am looking at training as a black and white thing when it really is not. I know what I need to do now but I will definitely be listening more to them. Their entire series with jay jack was eye opening.

@mew Very well put. The food scatter did work for lowering arousal in a situation but didn’t work for the actual trigger. A prong pop when he started staring at the kids playing with the soccer ball and then redirecting with something else did work and it was no longer an issue. Not everything...

@nasb I can definitely see that. I think going from one extreme of tools all the time to another extreme of force free is probably really confusing for my dog. I got my dog when he was 2 and he was already trained on prong and ecollar and I took classes and worked at a training kennel learning...

@nasb Yeah finding any r+ trainers doing bite sports is difficult. The people in my club are a little heavy handed, they’re the other side of the extreme. I’ll start reading more into use of pressure and it may get me where I need to be. Thank you

@nasb I get what you’re saying. I think the r+ stuff made our training better because everything was fun for him and in turn it made him want to engage with me so you’re probably right that it had less to do with it being r+ and more to do with the play aspect. I love micheal Ellis and have...

@zetana Yes I do use a scratch board, I also let him swim and play at the beach to get all his nails at the right length. His nails need care as much as he doesn’t want it. I need to figure out a way to include play with pressure. Maybe some of the people mentioned will be helpful.

@zetana The main one is routine care like nail clipping. I was using the cooperative care method of touching his feet and him opting in for a while but he never consented to it and wouldn’t consent to it. He doesn’t like his feet touched but it’s a fact of life. I now touch his feet daily and...

@brit218932 Ok very similar. A week ago he became almost overnight dog reactive. Took him to the vet and he has some soreness in his back legs which were going to look further into after the holidays. He’s on medication now and not even remotely reactive. However without corrections he does do...

@cathyj I love this mindset. Thank you for helping me think differently I’m going to screen shot this comment and keep it I love this way of understanding it.

I have a Malinois, we do PSA and around July I started having engagement issues in training that hurt us in the sport but also at home. If there’s any sector of trainers that focuses on engagement beyond eye contact it’s the ff community so I took a deep dive into the world of positive...