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18/12/2024

Clean Run is having a sale: Save 15% on On-Demand Courses including my courses on Mark Training, Loose Leash Walking, and Channel Heeling. Check out the link below.

Specials end on Monday, December 23, 8 am ET

Devorah (Dev) Sperber is the founder of OCEAN4Dogs, an online community and learning space where Simple Actions, such as Mark Training, Lead to Astonishing Outcomes. OCEAN is an acronym: Observe your Dog, Connect with Compassion, Engagement with Joy, Attitude before Anything, and Never Stop Learning...

15/09/2023

Fascinating!!!

Dogs can sniff out disease and analyze new odors even as they exhale. But how?

03/11/2022

This has been floating around social media.

Abstract
Dogs are highly sensitive to human behavior, and they evaluate us using both their direct experiences and from a third-party perspective. Dogs pay attention to various aspects of our actions and make judgments about, for example, social vs. selfish acts. However, it is unclear if dogs judge human competence. To investigate this issue, we showed dogs two experimenters manipulating a transparent container: one was good at removing the lid to take an object out of the container (Competent person), whereas the other was unsuccessful at this task (Incompetent person). After demonstrating their actions twice with different containers, both experimenters simultaneously tried to open a third container which contained food (Food condition; 30 dogs) or was empty (Empty condition; 30 dogs). Dogs in the Food condition looked at the Competent person longer than the Incompetent one, and female dogs in particular were more likely to approach the Competent person. In contrast, dogs in the Empty condition showed no preferences. This result suggests that dogs can recognize different competence levels in humans, and that this ability influences their behavior according to the first situation. Our data also indicate that more attention should be given to potential s*x differences in dogs’ social evaluation abilities."

Read the latest articles of Behavioural Processes at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

29/10/2022

I created this GIF for my new OCEAN Specialty Class on how to incorporate Toy Play Rewards with Mark Training etc. I have so much fun creating graphics and videos of OCEAN4dogs.com. I know I don't NEED to do stuff like this, but before I was a dog crazed person, I was an artist so I love creating cool graphics, animations, and videos.

Click on the GIF icon to activate the animation

28/10/2022

Whose responsibility are start line stays? The dog or the handler?

Watch this 2 min video clip on "Creating Clarity about Start Line Releases" that I created for my in-person classes at Marin Humane. I see a lot of dogs expressing stress & confusion about what IS and IS NOT a release so I decided to also share this video on VIMEO and in my free FB groups.

Here is the VIMEO link: https://vimeo.com/765034050

27/10/2022

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2022.1025331/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Veterinary_Science&id=1025331&fbclid=IwAR2rXuttfjVRdI9dD22-uwCnvNxfqPdHrX7V3KZlzCeginO-axdd3c8gklE&mibextid=D5hRgS

Agility is a rapidly growing canine performance sport worldwide, yet the literature is sparse regarding the impact of ground substrate on performance and injury. Approximately 1/3 of dogs participating in agility trials will experience a performance-related injury. The impact of ground material has....

12/10/2022

Love this!

06/10/2022

Interesting Perspective: "Embrace your losses as fair payment for the surplus of being alive." —KIERAN SETIYA

26/09/2022

“To do nothing is to hold yourself still so that you can perceive what is actually there.” -- Jenny Odell

I'm sharing this quote after reflecting on the astonishing results teams were able to achieve in single classes on my "Loose Leash Walking" and "Channel Heeling" methods at Wild Blue Dog Camp at Lake Tahoe last week. Progress happened so fast and it was so much fun, it felt like cheating!

18/09/2022

Learn how to transform your dog's leash from a source of conflict into a telephone line! If your otherwise well trained dog can pull on a leash all day long and doesn't seem to mind the physical sensation created by pulling on the leash, this class is for you! Loose Leash Walking Made Simple is not about teaching dogs to walk on a 100% slack leash. It's about teaching dogs to respond to the tactile experience of leash pressure the moment it occurs instead of pulling steadily on the leash. Available at Clean Run. Special Pricing $99 through September 2022 with the option to receive personalized feedback from Dev Sperber, Founder of OCEAN4Dogs...

Learn how to transform your dog’s leash from a source of conflict into a telephone line! If your otherwise well trained dog can pull on a leash all day long and doesn’t seem to mind the…

17/09/2022

Confirms what has already been studied about canine vision but interesting use of an fMRI

Scientists have decoded visual images from a dog's brain, offering a first look at how the canine mind reconstructs what it sees. The Journal of Visualized Experiments published the research done at Emory University.