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We are pleased to announce the official launch of CLEAR Dog Grooming which opened its doors earlier this year. CLEAR Dog Grooming is our sister business run by my daughter, Karen. Karen opened her own mobile business after working in a leading salon earlier this year. Click HERE for more gallery pictures.   |
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Here's a repeat from the last CLEAR Canine Courier that's well worth repeating! This book by two of the world’s leading trainers from Norway is available as an instantly downloadable E-Book. Even without buying it there is a heap of useful information, click on the book and watch the short video – just amazing and so easy when one knows how! Then scroll to the very bottom and sign up for the 7 free clicker lessons – they are brilliant and will arrive daily by email for the next seven days. You will soon be on your way to having your ideal dog as a result of being a Supertrainer.
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There is a bewildering amount of confusing and conflicting advice given by various breeders, pet stores, trainers and vets!
A medical argument from some breeders, pet stores, vets and trainers is that if you take a puppy too early to puppy school he could get a fatal disease, such as distemper or parvo virus. Therefore it is best to keep your puppy quarantined or isolated, as if in cotton wool, till he is four and a bit months old and has had all the required vaccinations. The counter argument is from other breeders, pet stores, vets and trainers who take into consideration both the medical and behavioural risks involved. They look at the bigger picture and conclude that the latter risks far outweigh the former. By the time your puppy is four months old he is almost adolescent and many undesired habits may have formed and it is much too late for puppy school! |
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Bringing home two puppies from the same litter might seem a good idea but there are lots of hidden traps. Many experienced breeders will not allow two littermates to go to the same home due to the problems that can easily develop.
‘What’s New in Dog Training’ and ‘What’s New in Clicker Training’ are topics for a weekend workshop with internationally renowned clicker trainer Kay Laurence at the end of June in the UK which I will be attending. It was at her training centre in the Cotswolds area of Gloucestershire in 2006 that I first came across TAGteaching.
Kay, who has hosted multiple TAGteach seminars, says that "clicker competency is not directly measurable by a person who has a clicker in their hand being a clicker trainer! “Some clicker trainers”, she says, “are reaching for the sky and able to achieve astonishing results, some clicker trainers are simply adding the clicker to an existing program of training, which may or may not be coercive. To gain access to this powerful method the teacher (clicker trainer) needs to be skilled, very self aware, observant, able to analyse, adjust the teaching to suit that particular dog at that particular time. As they develop their skills their understanding of the process deepens and they are able to transfer the learning to other animals, other fields of interest and have genuinely learned to communicate with another species through skilled use of the clicker.'
"I believe the true power of clicker training is seeded in allowing the dog to self-teach and in particular through the method of capturing the behaviour. The canine ownership of the learning results in very secure cue association and reliability of quality. The dog truly becomes involved in the learning process, becomes highly motivated and teaches us poor humans a thing or two about learning.”
The Learning About Dogs ‘Competency Assessment Program” (CAP) is designed to serve two purposes:
Click HERE for further details of CAP Levels 1-4
Click HERE to see the winner of ‘That dogs got talent’ at LADs
