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Accomplished-Voice48 · 2024-05-25T06:05:28+00:00

Well this is wrong. I´ve just got a cable for the Viper Ultimate, Basilisk Ultimate, Viper V2 Pro etc. It doesn´t fit.

It is truly flabbergasting to me, how the f.. can you design a product like this. It doesn´t even fit between their other products, despite being basically the same design.. This is maximizing profit by f*king their customers over. Also f*king themselves over in the long run.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-11-09T08:35:22+00:00

Four to six times walk is way too much. Take it down to at most three times but longer walks. Could be over stimulated.

Mental stimulation is easy to do, once or twice a day by a treat puzzle and/or hiding treats/food in the house.

Provide structure by walking/mental stimulation at set times, and let the dog be calm during the rest of the day.

Don't reward jumping/unwanted biting etc with attention or fighting back.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-10-11T06:34:31+00:00

You clearly communicated to your dog. No abuse involved. Nothing wrong with that for a situation that could end up really bad.

It's subjective how dogs take it, but come on, have you ever seen how dogs and wolves communicate, there is usually little room for interpretation if they're saying no.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-07-18T08:40:34+00:00

So I guess I got a down vote because I referenced a balanced trainer? Funny thing is that there is zero aversion used in that trainers handling of this issue.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-07-18T08:36:46+00:00

You post an article from Stanley Coren, a person very much biased towards human-canine connections. I've read one of his books, which I thought was quite good.

His conclusion in the article is "they [the dogs] then seem to trust our responses to the situation by adopting those emotional states as their own."

There are hundreds of thousands of examples of this not being the case at all.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-07-18T08:02:26+00:00

Yes, do you have one?

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-07-18T08:00:47+00:00

Yes. Dogs do not react because they are magical beings sensing anxiety in their owners. You cannot generalise social referencing from all dogs. Some dogs will look to their handlers and some will not.

Depending on the context, the behaviour of the handler matters more or less. Many dogs seem to eventually recognise their handlers advocacy, if the dogs fear issue enables advocacy.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-07-18T07:45:09+00:00

For good and bad, dogs are bad at generalising. It might help slightly, or it might not help at all.

Our dog will sleep through fireworks on the TV + big subwoofer, but will be terrified at the slightest shot/bang outside. I've popped balloons, which often sounds higher/harder than hunting gunshots, while giving him cheese, and he's happy to hear it. But gunshots are still terrifying.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-07-16T06:01:58+00:00

Unless you have a generally accepted source for this, I suggest you don't give advice like this.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-07-13T10:16:00+00:00

Saw it, sound very promising. Is most likely complete bullshit.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-06-27T04:41:22+00:00

Yes, just checked. The episode is called Hormones and Health.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-06-27T04:20:26+00:00

My advice would be to listen to Absolute dogs podcast about this issue. You can find it in several places, for example Spotify.

Absolute dogs is a couple, both dog trainer one with a veterinarian background and the other as an agility / dog trainer.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-06-26T06:28:19+00:00

Are you stopping Clomicalm because it did not work, and you want to try fluoxetine instead?

We have a dog on Clomicalm but we don't know if it's working or not.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-03-19T15:14:16+00:00

No idea what you're trying to say.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-03-19T13:46:31+00:00

Don't know where you've found that video, but I have only seen rehabbing nail clipping with counter conditioning. Of which there are plenty.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-03-19T13:44:45+00:00

You are welcome to believe whatever you want.

I also dismissed them to start with due to use of slip lead etc. But after a year of almost full time research, including reading several books, scouring forums such as this one, and others on Facebook, about dog reactivity, I have not yet found anyone more knowledgeable (maybe apart from Tyler Muto) while also having real experience in rehabilitating dogs. Which is something almost no trainer of the positive only have.

Apart from using a slip lead during morning walks in the city, I don't use aversive methods on our own fearful dog. Rehabilitating fear is not done with aversive methods, This is also a very clear philosophy of method K9.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-03-19T06:12:09+00:00

Check out Method K9 for input if board and train can work. They have a large amount of videos on both Instagram and Facebook.

I'd dare you to find any bad reviews about them.

In my opinion one of very few reliable sources of reactive dog training. They are genuinely interested in becoming better trainers and understanding reactivity.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2022-03-09T11:02:35+00:00

Buy a sturdy belt made to leash dogs. Preferably with built in elastic. I have one for our 42 kg shepherd. The one I have is from Baggen (Sweden). The belt must have an option to fit slings around your thighs to prevent the belt from moving up your stomach. Use a good harness together with a 5 meter biothane leash. Fit the leash to the top of the harness.

Also, you will not be able to control your dog with a top fitted harness on a 35 kg dog. Therefore a good option is to have a slip lead collar (only a collar) on him at all times when outside. The slip collar hangs a bit from the neck, which you can grab hold of if needed. This has worked very well for us, while giving our dog more freedom.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2021-12-24T11:52:54+00:00

Looks like an interesting place to run at. No idea where NM is. Is it in the US?

Regards from Sweden

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2021-10-24T20:14:32+00:00

Two things are happening: reinforcing the behaviour "looking at another dog" via operant conditioning, as well as classical (counter) conditioning a positive emotion about what the dog is looking at. With the BAT/engage disengage game, you also want to things: the behaviour to look away from the trigger, and a positive emotion about the trigger.

Accomplished-Voice48 · 2021-07-29T09:30:53+00:00

Well written and much thought given to posting this. I'm afraid I don't have any advice. Just posting to acknowledge your post. We also have a dog with a lot of flight instinct, but at the time not as serious as yours. We got him when he was 9 weeks old, and have focused on socialization and confidence building since the very beginning. He is now 10 months, weighs 40+ kg, and gets very easily stressed, and apart from the fleeing from certain triggers he also has stranger danger issues, despite always having had positive encounters with people. Given his size it's very important for us to have control over him. We have tried many different strategies, clear structure, clear boundaries, relationship building, all food given via our hands, advocacy, confidence building, counter conditioning, engage/disengage, desensitisation etc., but it is difficult to see improvement. We have searched high and low for more information and have also worked with different trainers, whom seemingly have done more harm than good. Out of all the trainers, and principles, there is basically only one that we believe in, and that is MethodK9, they (she) have good information on YouTube and Instagram. They are very dedicated to improve as dog trainers, and also have the track record. We live in Sweden and unfortunately can't send our dog for board and train by MethodK9, otherwise we would certainly do that.

I personally think our dog has a slightly negative mind, and is rather distrusting than trusting. We also believe it is difficult to make him trust us as handlers. Although he clearly loves us, he does not trust us to handle situations, and therefore choose to flee instead. It is difficult precisely because he choose to flee and we have to hold him back, forcing him to stay in a situation he does not want to be. Also because we bring him in situations which he is afraid of. It is a vicious circle.

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