Comments on: On Training a Dog to “OUT” http://naturaldogtraining.com/blog/on-training-a-dog-to-out/ Official Natural Dog Training Website Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:54:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: kbehan http://naturaldogtraining.com/blog/on-training-a-dog-to-out/comment-page-1/#comment-815 kbehan Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:43:07 +0000 http://naturaldogtraining.com/?p=762#comment-815 The deer is the perfect mirror image of the canine, the prey inside the dog as predator. One wolf can kill a deer on its own, if that is it can catch it, which it can't unless it surprises it. The wolf seizes it by the neck and so when dogs play, they most love to grab each other by the neck. You may also have noticed the "gape" and the clashing of teeth when dogs play which is concordant with the clashing of antlers when bucks joust in the rut. At any rate, deer are lunar animals, other than being disturbed by predators and storms, they feed when the moon is out. I believe they can actually feel the gravitational pull of the moon and this affects their behavior, probably their physiology. So if you see the moon out during the day, you're likely to see deer grazing in the open as well. I've never seen a dog howl at the moon, and some scientists say it doesn't happen, but back in the eighties my kennel manager who lived over my kennel once saw a young shepherd I had imported from East Germany and who lived in an outdoor kennel, late one night cock its head back and bay mournfully at the full moon. Since all the prey focus on the moon, I believe this synchronizes their mass migrations and is why the predator of such prey yearn for the moon as well. I suspect that when wolves look at the moon, they can feel where the Caribou is going to migrate, the morphic field as Lee Kelley talks about. So the moon is preyful energy, the sun is predator energy. We can project into the moon, we avert our gaze to the sun. Song writers and poets wax romantically about the moon, and even though the Sun is the source of all life, nobody writes a love song to the sun. Interestingly, it's an old folk saying that the ring around the moon before the storm arrives represents all the unfulfilled desires on earth. Don't get me started on the earth, the moon and the sun. But just remember that the earth, the moon and the sun comprise the environment to which animals must adapt if they are to evolve. I believe therefore that the network the earth, moon and sun comprise is the basis of animal consciousness. The deer is the perfect mirror image of the canine, the prey inside the dog as predator. One wolf can kill a deer on its own, if that is it can catch it, which it can’t unless it surprises it. The wolf seizes it by the neck and so when dogs play, they most love to grab each other by the neck. You may also have noticed the “gape” and the clashing of teeth when dogs play which is concordant with the clashing of antlers when bucks joust in the rut.
At any rate, deer are lunar animals, other than being disturbed by predators and storms, they feed when the moon is out. I believe they can actually feel the gravitational pull of the moon and this affects their behavior, probably their physiology. So if you see the moon out during the day, you’re likely to see deer grazing in the open as well.
I’ve never seen a dog howl at the moon, and some scientists say it doesn’t happen, but back in the eighties my kennel manager who lived over my kennel once saw a young shepherd I had imported from East Germany and who lived in an outdoor kennel, late one night cock its head back and bay mournfully at the full moon. Since all the prey focus on the moon, I believe this synchronizes their mass migrations and is why the predator of such prey yearn for the moon as well. I suspect that when wolves look at the moon, they can feel where the Caribou is going to migrate, the morphic field as Lee Kelley talks about.
So the moon is preyful energy, the sun is predator energy. We can project into the moon, we avert our gaze to the sun. Song writers and poets wax romantically about the moon, and even though the Sun is the source of all life, nobody writes a love song to the sun.
Interestingly, it’s an old folk saying that the ring around the moon before the storm arrives represents all the unfulfilled desires on earth. Don’t get me started on the earth, the moon and the sun. But just remember that the earth, the moon and the sun comprise the environment to which animals must adapt if they are to evolve. I believe therefore that the network the earth, moon and sun comprise is the basis of animal consciousness.

]]> By: April Hannon http://naturaldogtraining.com/blog/on-training-a-dog-to-out/comment-page-1/#comment-814 April Hannon Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:48:11 +0000 http://naturaldogtraining.com/?p=762#comment-814 Kevin, what do you mean when you say, full moons animating prey? Kevin, what do you mean when you say, full moons animating prey?

]]> By: Sang http://naturaldogtraining.com/blog/on-training-a-dog-to-out/comment-page-1/#comment-769 Sang Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:03:56 +0000 http://naturaldogtraining.com/?p=762#comment-769 This may be "just" a description of teaching the Out command, but it really hits on the basis of what Natural Dog Training is all about. Thanks Kevin. This may be “just” a description of teaching the Out command, but it really hits on the basis of what Natural Dog Training is all about.

Thanks Kevin.

]]> By: Jenya http://naturaldogtraining.com/blog/on-training-a-dog-to-out/comment-page-1/#comment-759 Jenya Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:15:05 +0000 http://naturaldogtraining.com/?p=762#comment-759 I want a whole book like this. :) Thank you Kevin, this is really helpful! I want a whole book like this. :)
Thank you Kevin, this is really helpful!

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