Amayesingdogs Dog training

16/06/2022

Je comprends. Vous préférez ne pas utiliser de gâteries pour entraîner votre chien, parce qu’il devrait apprendre les bonnes manières sans recevoir quelque chose en retour. Vous pensez que si vous lui donnez des friandises, vous atténuerez la valeur des récompenses bien plus importantes, co...

15/03/2022

07/03/2022

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07/03/2022

03/03/2022

Hear, hear

Let's normalise not being rude to dogs...😎

📷 Clicker Canines

02/02/2022

Dogs would certainly march for more sniffing, don't you think? Thank you to Academy student, Anaïs Morel, for this placard.

Want to help dogs have a voice in how they're trained?

Read the blog: https://www.academyfordogtrainers.com/blog/if-they-could-march/

Create your own placard and share yours in the comments and use the hashtag .

01/02/2022

If dogs could march, they'd certainly want us to know this. Thank you to Academy grad, Allie Kirby, for this placard.

Want to help dogs have a voice in how they're trained?

Read the blog: https://www.academyfordogtrainers.com/blog/if-they-could-march/

Create your own placard and share yours in the comments and use the hashtag .

31/12/2021

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24/12/2021

That Should Be Me || Justin Bieber

15/11/2021

I apologise for my absence. However, on my way to my Diploma from Evolutionary Institute at Cambridge University. At last I am getting It. Thinking for myself in gene selection for behaviour. WOW

07/11/2021

There is so much more to behaviour than most people think. Children don’t try to upset us, there is usually something behind it. They are communicating their need through behaviour. If we look behind the behaviour we can see a child who is doing the best they can

18/09/2021

Positive reward based dog training in Essex

21/06/2021

Who would think that playing ball with your dog can cause injuries to his/her joints.
The Canine Arthritis Management would go as far as to say that it is not an ideal activity for any dog.
Dogs are quadrupeds, they move forward in a straight line and lack the rotary aspect of a bi-pedal movement. It is thought that the most dangerous component of ball chasing occurs during braking, and is often responsible for shoulder injuries in our dogs. This repeated trauma to muscles and cartilage is the cause of long term damage .
Many dogs get very excited during ball throwing games. This increased arousal can involve increased heart rate and adrenaline levels. Adrenaline is designed to be released in short bursts. Cortisol levels take several days to return to normal and studies have found that prolonged exposure to high cortisol levels can be damaging to health of our dogs.
Research examining the impact of dogs jumping from the back of our modern day 4x4 cars demonstrates there is approximately 4 times the impact exerted on the limbs and subsequently the joints than of a normal stepl.
Now that we know how these activities can injure our dogs we can support them in any way we can.

11/06/2021

TRAINING PLAN FOR BIDDY
For those of you that know me, I have an elderly dog named Biddy (16 1/2). Biddy is a terrier mix with 100% terrier temperament. For example terrier tantrums. Yes tantrums. For example, this winter I thought I would buy her a coat but she was having none of it. Of course we do not know 100% what our animals or human companions are thinking. We learn over the years of living with them their temperament. I think Biddy was telling me using her body language 'I am not wearing that, it will not do my street cred any favours!"
I have purchased a dog carrier to enable Biddy to have a better quality of life. Not that she is not spoilt or well looked after. I just wanted to do more.
Biddy is now not able to walk further than to the end of the road. A friend takes Biddy in her car with Bill (Springer Spaniel) to Gusted Hall once per week. This is where John used to take both dogs every morning for 10 years.
The idea is for Biddy to get into the carrier so she can be pushed to other places and then get out for a wander, rather than going to the same place week in and week out.
Now I really have to get this right, otherwise the purchase of the carrier will be a waste of money and I hope Biddy will enjoy the extra stimulation in her life. Therefore I have thought long and hard about how I am going to accomplish this.
Those of you that know me know I spend a lot of time researching dog behaviour/training. My second favourite trainer is Kay Lawrence. Kay Lawrence encourages students to be creative and think for themselves, this information has helped me from time to time.
My initial thoughts were to use the target mat behaviour I started some time ago,
As I am a full time wheelchair user, when I train my dogs a new behaviour I get onto the settee and then onto the floor.
Because this is really the only place in the house that I can get onto the floor with them it does come with some disadvantages.
I have messed up many behaviours in this place in the house because I have not prepared my training plan as I should.
Therefore 'this place' has a particular emotional response for both Biddy and Billy.
Biddy will sigh if I get it wrong, as much to say 'For f...ck sake'.
Bill will get frustrated.
My initial plan was to train the one the mat behaviour to a good standard in he lounge on the floor.
The dog carrier is at the other end of the lounge where I am training.
I would gradually move the mat towards the carrier.
When at the carrier Bidedy will need to step up on a cushion and then into carrier.
TO BE CONTINUED

08/06/2021

As a dog pro, I worry that a lot of information out there about dog bites is pretty… fuzzy. Like, how many are there? How bad are they? What breeds tend to bite more? It’s fuzzy or simply unknowable, and one reason for that is that so many—the vast majority, likely—are simply not worthy of r...

08/06/2021

ORGANISATIONS RECOGNISED BY THE NEW CHARTER : SEE YESTERDAYS POST FOR MORE INFO

08/06/2021

I am sure you have heard stories from neighbours/friends/family members regarding their dog's unwanted behaviour. I am sure you have made assumptions, as have I about what is going on. However a good story is not always good evidence. Something to think about. By the way the photo is of Jake, one of our past dogs

07/06/2021

There are many organisations out there that are willing to take money from individuals wishing to learn about animal behaviour who have little knowledge themselves. This is not helpful to those that wish to learn or the public that ask for help with their dog.
Professor Peter Neville established COAPE in 1993 and then started CAPBT to help support students.
COAPE stands for Centre of Applied Pet Ethology.
CAPBT stands for COAPE Association of Pet Behaviourists and Trainers.
Behaviour is a symptom of mood state either human or dog. If you are in a bad mood you are more likely to shout or swear than if you are in a good mood.
This applies to dogs as well as dog is more likely to growl if the environment he lives in is not suitable making him in a bad mood than if he lived in an environment that all his needs were being met. PLEASE REFER TO DESIGNER DOGS published earlier this year.
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31/05/2021

Why repetitions are not always good for our dogs. Especially when it comes to competition sports.

This does not mean you should do fewer competition runs with our dogs or reduce the actual sports training.
The main reason dogs get injured during sports is repetititive overload.
To avoid repititions make sure YOU have done the preparation for the training session.
Without preparation for your sport training session YOU ARE setting the dog up to fail. Training the same behaviour over and over. Putting your dog's body in overload maybe leading to injuries that could have been avoided.
Your dog takes signals from YOUR;
BODY MOVEMENT
Shoulders and Hands particularly.
Therefore plan the session
Where should my body be (shoulder), (hand) etc when I am preparing my dog to jump.
If I have to move towards jump, do I step off with left or right foot.
What am I going to say to my dog and when.
Where am I going to give my dog his reward to set him up for another repetition where he will get it right again.
Therefore avoiding overloading your dogs joints over time.

Ref: www.themovingcanine

22/05/2021

It has been an argument by many dogv owners and companies that raw and high meat feeding is a natural method of feeding your dog. Many of these dog owners consider that dogs evolved from wolves and therefore require a rich meaty diet the same as their ancestors.

I try not to believe all that hear in respect to dogs without researching and using critical thinking skills.

Around 10,000 years ago, the need of the last ice age saw the end of hunter gatherers to the period of human culture named the Neolithic period. Neolithic period refers to the "new" or "late" period of Stone Age which saw the spread of agriculture and farming, hunting decreased and the human diet was mainly based on veg.
A study in New Scientist magazine reflected that meat was relatively scarce among human societies at that time and feeding dogs cereals could have been advantageous to ensure the dogs had plenty of energy for strenuous work of herding and guarding livestock.

A study looking at the diet of dogs in an archaeological site near Barcelona Spain which lies on a plain near the coast and was inhabited from the Stone Age onwards. S Silvia Albizuri from the university of Barcelona obtained protein from the dogs' bones that had been buried in pits and focused on the carbon nitrogen atoms in the samples, each of which exist in two forms called isotopes. Different foods have varying ratios of carbon and nitrogen isotopes and this influences the makeup of the protein - so studying the isotopes in the protein gives an indication of what the animals ate.

The dogs' diets differed considerably; while nine of them ate plenty of meat and 10 were omnivorous , the rest ate mostly plants and some had isotopes ratios that could barely be distinguished from those of the cattle they once guarded.
Evolutionary geneticist Erk Axelsson from Sweden compared dog and wolf DNA to learn which genes were important fo domestication.
They sequenced DNA from 12 wolves from around the world and from 60 dogs belonging to 14 breeds. The analysis turned up 36 regions, with 122 genes in all, that may have contributed to dog evolution.
Most surprisingly were genes for digesting starch. Dogs had four to 30 copies of the gene for amylase, a protein that starts the breakdown of starch in the intestine. Wolves have only two copies. As a result, that gene was 28 fold more active in dogs, the researchers found. More copies mean more protein and test-tube studies indicate that dogs should be fivefold better than wolves at digesting starch. This number of copies of this gene also varies in people. Those eating high carbohydrate diets - such as the Japanese and European Americans - have more copies than people with starch poor diets. Humans evolved to more easily digest starches around 10,000 years ago and led to the adaptations of both species. It really shows that humans and dogs have evolved together.

These findings adds to the evidence that many early domestic dogs ate little meat.

Ref: http//www.vetchef.com/post/busting-the-myth-of-ancestral-diets
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/01/diet-shaped-dog-domestication

17/04/2021

Do you ever find that you need to walk faster to keep up with some people whereas you have to decrease your pace to walk with others. This is likely because of the difference in leg length between you and the person you are walking with.
You may see a human with their dog (let's say a daushound) going for their walk and the poor dog is struggling to keep up.
Therefore he may not enjoy his walk.
Just something to think about when exercising your dog.