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Canine - Human Relationship Institute If you want to learn to talk to your dog; shut your mouth.-Nelson Hodges

11/30/2025

Puppy to Queen Bee conversation.

14.5 years ago, when North Texas Dog Pros came together and produced a well attended seminar for public and professional...
11/29/2025

14.5 years ago, when North Texas Dog Pros came together and produced a well attended seminar for public and professionals alike. NTDP was the first Dog Pros group in the world. How do I know? Because I created 26 other regional and national groups after that. From Korea to Europe.

CHRI Monthly Class (online subscription members) - tomorrow Saturday November 29 is 3:00 pm Central. This is the Quarter...
11/29/2025

CHRI Monthly Class (online subscription members) - tomorrow Saturday November 29 is 3:00 pm Central.

This is the Quarterly Q&A about previous talks. Bring your questions.

This afternoon, after Thanksgiving dinner (at lunch). Just enjoying a quiet time with all of the family here. I hope tha...
11/28/2025

This afternoon, after Thanksgiving dinner (at lunch). Just enjoying a quiet time with all of the family here. I hope that everyone had a wonderful day.

I took Kate, this morning, on a training run. She will be 9 months old on December 2. She is a little younger than Bosch...
11/25/2025

I took Kate, this morning, on a training run. She will be 9 months old on December 2. She is a little younger than Bosch was, when I started him in real world situations.

I prefer to wait until the brain has matured to a point where a dog will look to me for novel situations in an unpredictable environment. If she doesn’t know or understand the situation presented before her, she will check in with me for proper behavior, placement, action, position, etc.

Today we went for her weekly Vet scale weigh-in. 67.2 pounds. She is doing very well, and is in almost perfect shape for her size and age. I will be tweaking her weight more for her strength, stamina and movement over growth over the next several months. I started that a couple of weeks ago. Proper ligament, tendon and fascia attachments, musculature, movement, strength, plyability, proprioception, and on and on is what I am working with her, to develop into an appropriate athlete.

After the Vet, we went to the Pharmacy, in the grocery store we shop at normally. In both places, she provided the correct behavior, positioning, actions and behaviors that I was looking for.

I decided to take her, for the first time, to lunch (indoor) with me. We went to a small Vietnamese restaurant that everyone there knows me for years. Her first time there, or inside a busy, full of food smells and human activity restaurant.

Katie did extremely well, simply studying people’s movements around us. She understood, within a few seconds, where I wanted her (under the table) and stayed the entire time, alert, but without issue. She would check in with me every few minutes and I assured her.

I was extremely happy with her decisions based upon the fact that, as stated, it is a small restaurant, lots of activity and noise, and there were 5 young children, 3 of which were yelling, crying and/or whining. One couple, in a back Corner, allowed their toddler to simply run around the entire restaurant and go to everyone else’s tables to bother them. The toddler came up to our table twice, at a short distance, over about a 20 minute period. Of course the toddler was staring at Kate and making noises. Katie stayed calm and simply studied her, checking in with me. At around 30 minutes in, the toddler came around the table and got in Kate’s face, to which I had to move forward, put my hand between Katie and the toddler, and say “No” firmly. Then the father came and got the toddler and apologized. Katie was entirely non-plussed about everything and I was praising her quietly.

The check ins are about the trust she has in me to provide relevant information at proper timing so she comprehends what is expected. This is what I work on with every dog. Communication with comprehension, begets trust. I teach this to trainers, who come to learn, in depth.

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Kate continues to impress me with her mature behavior when out working with me. She does well on leash and is looking fo...
11/24/2025

Kate continues to impress me with her mature behavior when out working with me. She does well on leash and is looking for communication from me. Easy to handle. Learning each time. We went to Quik Trip, just tonight, for some decaf coffee. She did excellently. We did a bit of a walk and search around the front of the house and street before going. She is sensitive to minor signals.

She has picked up, from Bosch, the habit of coming in to the closet when I put on the pair of pants I wear each morning. She sniffs them to see what I smell like for the day. She got this from watching Bosch do it each morning with me. I have rewarded her for doing so. It has become routine now. This is an important step for a Service Dog to have a base scent of you for the day. I don’t want any confusion in the dog of what I or my wife smells like when we start out, without medical issues, each day. It is a step I always work with detection dogs of any type.

Photo late tonight of Kate. Worn out. 8.5 Months old. 67 #. Smart, sweet girl.

Tonight at 7:00pm Central:CHRI Monthly Class: Ask Nelson anything about dogs, training, behavior. Open forum. Subscripti...
11/19/2025

Tonight at 7:00pm Central:

CHRI Monthly Class: Ask Nelson anything about dogs, training, behavior. Open forum.

Subscription for the CHRI Monthly Class is $15.00/month. A different subject matter each month. This will be class #35.

Class #36 in December will be “bring your training/behavior case” to class. Provide photos/videos and questions. We will analyze what actually happens in dogs brains. I will be asking you questions about the situation, and then provide the reasons why I ask those particular questions and what your answers tell me. Basically, problem solving methodology.

If we have more than we do cover in 1.5 hours, we will continue this theme in January.

I hope to see you for both.

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Bosch was with me (as usual) to go to the CHRI Center today. We worked on a number of things. The pond has the normal ca...
11/18/2025

Bosch was with me (as usual) to go to the CHRI Center today. We worked on a number of things. The pond has the normal capacity (not overflowing) of about 60,000 cubic feet of water. It has been so dry and warm since June that even having put several hundreds of gallons of water, 3 different times, directly into the pond, this was down to a couple of inches of depth left. A few minnows have survived and a couple of tiny frogs. So I decided to continue trying to save them. I put a few hundred more gallons in, again, today. We are looking for about 2” to 3” of rain this week and next. I am hoping that will begin to refill the pond this winter/spring.

While we are at the lowest levels, ever, I was digging out some of the rich dirt that had filled in over the past few years. I also cut down a few of the Willow trees lining the perimeter. Those have grown up in the last 5 years. I don’t want them taking over the entire perimeter.

I will be back tomorrow to work more before it starts raining on Wednesday.

Course I and Course II. The January Course I online still has a few slots left, but I have heard from several people sig...
11/16/2025

Course I and Course II.

The January Course I online still has a few slots left, but I have heard from several people signing up shortly. The number allowed is limited.

Course II in March only has one slot left.

Let us know if you intend to register.

Thank you.

Wednesday, November 19, 7:00 pm Central, will be class #35 (35 different 1.5 hour Classes and subject matters) for the ...
11/14/2025

Wednesday, November 19, 7:00 pm Central, will be class #35 (35 different 1.5 hour Classes and subject matters) for the CHRI Monthly classes. These classes are for trainers of any and all levels, enthusiasts, handlers, vets and vet techs, groomers, in short everyone interested in understanding dogs. These classes are available by a $15.00 per month subscription. As a thank you to our long term subscribers and for new subscribers that wonder what it is all about, we have a one month, free, going on through the December Course.

This month’s Class will be a slightly different Q&A class. In this class you can ask any question you wish, on any subject matter. We can have a discussion.

In December the topic will be unique (as is all), but the format will also be unique. December will be a “problem solving methodology” session. You bring a question (or multiples) about any dog, case, situation, and I ask the questions that leads us to answer the situation and leads to the answer for that situation and dog(s)/humans. It can be about your own dog/pack, or client situation. Not only will we go through each case we have the time to cover, but I will explain why I asked you certain questions and why those specific questions were asked to get to the heart of the issues.

I am looking forward to both of these classes. I hope you join us.

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