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Brains, Bones and Behavior Welcome to Canine Game Theory where we make learning happen via games and fun and play. All you ever do is play simple games.
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The learning curve is almost non-existant for both the human and the dog. Each of those games builds one upon the other until you have an obedient dog that knows all the basics - sit, down, stay, come, heel, stand, leave it, go to your place, go say hi - and a host of other things that have never been taught in an obedience class before for lack of time.

08/01/2024

Daily Quote from Canine Game Theory
Structured Game Training
By Jamie Robinson
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08/01/2024

Daily Tip for Training and Living With Dogs
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07/31/2024

Daily Quote from Canine Game Theory
Structured Game Training
By Jamie Robinson
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07/31/2024

We have a huge body of knowledge available to us about training dogs, handling dogs, keeping dogs safe and healthy, and how to handle the behavior of dogs. Yes, there are arguments about what should be used and studied and applied and what shouldn't. There are factions in dog care just like there are factions in politics and no consensus of what should happen when interacting with a dog.

My question for all of you is what should be the basics of what a person getting into dog care should know? A bachelors degree so to speak, and for those who have been to college, a bachelors degree covers general knowledge as well as the beginnings of specialization of the knowledge of ones chosen field of study.

What should a complete newbie study and learn, enough to protect and handle a dog and teach it the basics of how to live in a human generated world?

07/30/2024

Daily Tip for Training and Living With Dogs

Training a Service Dog Yourself https://shorturl.at/8m0So
Keeping Dogs Safe https://shorturl.at/K8CUq
Canine Behavior https://shorturl.at/3BstS
Scent Workbooks https://shorturl.at/YONGm
Detection Dog Training https://shorturl.at/T0IKa

07/29/2024

Everything you've done in your life can assist you in training your dog. From being an accountant and payroll supervisor I brought the ability to truly multi-task. From camping, hiking and scuba diving I got courage to face the unknown or the dangerous and the ability to think in a crisis. Descending into a school of circling sharks to rescue a panicked student was one of the highlights of my life.

07/29/2024

07/28/2024

Science is a wonderful thing. With science we have Facebook and the ability to invest in future asteroid mining. But what really is science and why do we need it? Science is learning, it is communication with the intent of full understanding of our environment and those entities which inhabit that environment.

Science is a growing body of knowledge with the understanding that things can change with renewed observation and testing.
How does this apply to dog training? Science allows us to examine ourselves, our motives, our practices and methods of teaching our dogs how to live in our world. Science gives us tested tools and concepts that will determine how behavior should change when used as designed.

I find it silly sometimes to be stuck in "traditional" when there are worlds of new knowledge about dogs, their behavior, their social structure and responses. It's ok to stick to traditional when discussing and practicing growing food as traditional methods, chemical free methods produce more and better food. But when it comes to dogs and their ability to learn and change behavior, we don't have the luxury of methods that worked consistently, for all dogs, from "tradition".

I remember "traditional" methods. They dismissed the shy dog, the hyper dog, small dogs and breeds "not suited" for those methods. Why would trainers now use "traditional" when it was never meant to work on ALL dogs? Why not embrace science and the tested results that work with all breeds, all sizes, all temperaments?

07/28/2024

Dahra and Chesovy and I played some flirt pole already this morning. Dahra was antsy and needed it.

07/27/2024

Dogs are very different from a lot of other animals because they are hyper-social and hypersensitive to everything we do - Temple Grandin

07/26/2024

If you think dogs don't listen to reason.... Trying to change the human's responses to a particular behavior or set of behaviors from their dog is one of the hardest things to do. Dogs have default behaviors and so do humans. So it becomes a game after a few months of trying to correct problem behavior one way over and over again and my question will always be "how's that working for you".

07/26/2024

Ten years ago, a good friend and client asked me this:

"I have recently became aware of 'psychiatric therapy dogs'. Is this a legitimate discipline? Also 'mental health therapy dogs'. These two terms cover such a broad spectrum of illnesses with a multiplicity of symptoms & needs. Needless to say I am a strong proponent of pets, and I understand the benefits of their presence in a home. My concern is for unrealistic expectations in a population that is vulnerable & how the possible consequences for both the person & the animal."

I knew at that time that most of what she was hearing about were emotional support dogs and not real PSDs. But some of what she was worried about has actually happened. There is a preponderance of PSDs around and some for very minor issues. I'd say most of them are for young people between 16 and 25. At least that is the age group that posts a lot in the service dog forums.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for PSDs, they do a world of good, especially for the panic disorders (PTSD, etc.). What concerns me is what is our country coming to with the wholesale need for PSDs?

07/26/2024

The rule is simple: don't stimulate rage, fear or panic; do stimulate seeking and play - Temple Grandin

07/25/2024

Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

07/23/2024

Say "thank you" to your dog. I know it sounds a little strange, but think about it this way - when you thank someone, you are generally in a good place. Your energy is good, your emotional state is good. When you thank your dog, she will pick up on that energy and know she did something right and that you are happy with her.

07/23/2024

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Dogs can discriminate stressed from non-stressed human odour samples, but the effect on their cognition is unstudied. Using a cognitive bias task, we tested how human odours affect dogs’ likelihood of approaching a food bowl placed at three ambiguous locations (“near-positive”, “middle” an...

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Reason to Play #3 Play is learning. Play nurtures development and fulfils a dog's inborn need to learn.

Reason to train #30 Don't expect your dog to behave in a world he doesn't understand. Train!!!!

Reason to train #7 You can teach your dog how to make decisions in life based on the rules you have laid out with the training you do. Control the environment, not the animal. Give the animal the ability to make choices, just control which choices are available. They soon learn what gets them what they want and they abandon that which doesn't work.

In most cases, play will handle stress in a dog. Play, and then play closer and closer to what is stressing the dog. If that's other dogs, just put up a see through barrier or utilize one until the stress is alleviated. Too many use exercise as a method of handling behavior issues in dogs - exercise, lots of exercise. Think about exercise as a method of handling the symptoms of stress like a human alcoholic. The normal methods of relieving stress, built by centuries and eons of evolution, are denied you, so you drink to escape. You get drunk and feel as though you can at least cope. The muscles relax, a filter is placed in front of your eyes and your mind and your stress is shoved to the hindend of awareness. Eventually you are not affected by the alcohol and the hindend is shoved to the forefront. A little while later, it takes more and more alcohol to create the filter of perception and less and less time between drinks as the body and the mind develop a tolerance. This same things happens to a dog who is being forced to exercise to handle behavior issues. As the days go by, the body gets stronger, the heart beats easier and the lungs learn to process oxygen more efficiently. The recovery time after exercise is lessoned and the issues resurface. More and more exercise is used as a means of solving this problem. But the dog only turns into an Olympic athlete capable of running all day if necessary and turning on the first dog it spies and now much more capable of chasing the neighbors cat and catching it. Exercise is needed, don't get me wrong, but it is not the solution to behavior issues. I think, also, that most of us would agree that exercise without an immediate purpose, without a tangible goal is boring and pointless. Wolves and wild dogs don't exercise just for the sake of exercise, they play to hone skills and create the muscles, flexibility and speed necessary to hunt - to survive. Why not use what dogs and other related canids use to handle

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