Furry Pawsitive

11/11/2024

Bagaimana kamu mengajak anjingmu berjalan-jalan?

11/11/2024

How do you take your dog for a walk?

05/11/2024

🏡 Exciting news! We’re moving!
🐾 Same service area, just a bit bigger!
Furry Pawsitive is moving to a new home base! While we’re not going far, this new location allows us to keep serving all our current neighborhoods (although at a limited capacity) and reach a few new ones. 🎉

Starting November 11th 2024 , we’ll be able to offer our Private In-Home Training, Day Training, and Furry Fun Hour in Bintaro and BSD.
As we grow, we’re adjusting our availability to better meet demand. This means limited scheduling for clients in Cibubur, Bogor, and Depok. If you are in these areas, please reach out to secure your training sessions! For clients in Jakarta neighborhoods, there should be no change for you.
This adjustment allows us to bring high-quality training to more pets, while still being there for our loyal clients. If you’re in our new areas, we can’t wait to work with you!

IMPORTANT: We’ll be taking November 8th-10th off to settle in—no sessions on those days, but bookings are still open for scheduling future appointments!

Whether you’re a familiar face or new to Furry Pawsitive, we’re thrilled to keep providing top-notch pet education (for you!), training, and enrichment for your furry companions. Plus, don’t forget—you’ll learn all about your pet’s behavior, helping you understand them better and build a strong two-way communication!

WhatsApp us (Asti) at +62-878-8009-1546 to book or learn more!

Thank you for being part of our journey and growth 🙏🏽

We’re excited to keep spreading knowledge of force-free, welfare-based animal training, fostering human-animal relationships, and positive pet guardianship! 💛🐾

25/08/2024

Otot “penghukum”:
Bagi kamu yang selama ini diajari untuk menarik tali kekang anjing sebagai bentuk koreksi, hukuman, atau “komunikasi” ketika anjingmu menarik, berperilaku buruk, menggonggong, melompat, dan lainnya, dan sekarang menyadari bahwa itu bukan cara yang tepat untuk melatih hewan, cobalah cara ini untuk "melatih ulang" tanganmu (atau setidaknya mencegah tanganmu terbiasa menarik talinya).

SAMBUNG TALI KE CARABINER

Cara ini membantu mengubah peran tanganmu dari "mengoreksi" menjadi menguatkan atau reinforcing.

Tahukah kamu setiap kali kamu melatih anjingmu, kamu juga sedang melatih dirimu sendiri?

Setiap repetisi yang kamu lakukan membangun kebiasaanmu dalam merespons perilaku anjingmu.

Jika kamu selalu meneriaki "no" setiap kali anjingmu melompat ke kamu, kamu lebih cenderung akan terus melakukannya setiap kali kamu melihat anjingmu melompat selanjutnya.

Meneriaki “no” menjadi respons terkondisikan kamu (atau refleksmu).

Ini sebabnya mengapa jika seseorang terbiasa menghukum anjing, bisa sulit untuk beralih ke metode penguatan positif dan pencegahan.

Bukannya tidak akan mungkin kok, tapi agak lebih sulit.

Mereka harus mengubah pola pikir mereka. Mereka harus secara aktif melatih kembali respons mereka untuk memperkuat (reinforce) perilaku anjing yang mereka sukai dan berhenti menunggu anjing membuat kesalahan untuk kemudian dihukum.

Ingatlah, ketika kamu menghukum, aksimu itu diperkuat oleh perubahan perilaku anjing. Memberikan hukuman memperkuat perilaku menghukum si penghukum. Kamu akan lebih cenderung melakukannya lagi di kemudian hari.

Latihlah “otot” penguatan positif kamu, dan biarkan “otot” penghukum kamu mengecil.

25/08/2024

Punishment muscle:
For those of you who have been taught to yank, tug, or pull on your dog's leash as a way to correct, punish, or "communicate" when they pull, bark, lunge, or engage in other unwanted behaviors—and now realize that it’s not an effective method for training—try this as one way to "untrain" your hands (or at least to stop them from instinctively pulling the leash).

ATTACH LEASH TO CARABINER

This helps change your hand's role from "correcting" into reinforcing.

Did you know every time you train your dog you're also training yourself?

Each repetition you do is building your habit as a response to your dog's behavior.

This is also why if somebody is used to punishing dogs, it can be hard to switch to reinforcement and prevention.

Not impossible, though.

They have to shift their mindset. They have to retrain their response to reinforce the behavior they like and stop waiting for the dog to make mistakes to then punish.

Remember, when you punish, that act gets reinforced by the dog's (perceived) behavior change. Giving punishment is reinforcing the punisher. You're more likely to do it again in the future.

Train your reinforcement “muscle”, and let your punishment “muscle” atrophy.

24/08/2024

Please adopt us! We need a proper home with loving humans 🐱
Emi (girl) & Kairo (boy)
Bita (girl) & Amer (boy)
If you adopt according to the pairings (or all four), I'll help with paying 50% of the girl's spaying cost 😁
Of course, individually adopting them is also available.
Please help me share this!

13/06/2024

THE FUTURE IS FORCE-FREE

Stop menggunakan ras, karakter, ukuran tubuh, “tahan sakit” sebagai pembenaran untuk kekerasan dan penganiayaan hewan atas nama training.

Stop using breed, character, body size, pain tolerance to justify violence and animal abuse in the name of training.

Anjing berhak lebih dari “koreksi“.

Dogs deserve better than “corrections”.

*senggolan untuk mempelajari tentang kesejahteraan hewan dan frameworknya (domain, kebutuhan, kebebasan).

*a nudge to learn about animal welfare and its frameworks (domains, needs, freedoms).

31/05/2024

10/04/2024

Minal aidin wal faizin 🙏

18/03/2024

"... harus ada batasan akan apa yang diperbolehkan ketika mencoba membuat anjing berperilaku sesuai dengan cara yang dapat diterima."
"Pelatihan harus memperhitungkan kemampuan individu untuk menderita dan mengalami rasa sakit yang mendalam dan berkepanjangan."
~Marc Bekoff PhD, 2012

Quotes are from:
Bekoff, Marc. “Did Cesar Millan Have to Hang the Husky?” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 21 Apr. 2012, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/201204/did-cesar-millan-have-hang-the-husky

25/02/2024

turns 5! And you get 35% off of courses this weekend.

Sign up for my "Kitty Kindergarten" course that starts this March for 35% off with the discount code (TROMPLO5BDAY).

Not a kitten caretaker? I have a course with .bartosik.trainer "Understanding Canine Behavior" that will run its second edition in April. Use the same code (TROMPLO5BDAY) to get a 35% discount.

Happy learning!