Posts with /tag/aggression/

Panksepp, Natural Dog Training, Part Two By kbehan

Panksepp, Natural Dog Training, correlations and distinctions. The interesting thing about writing this article which I initially thought would be pretty simple and straightforward, is that in order to make correlations, I have to at the same time draw distinctions. I hope this doesn’t detract from conveying how much I respect Panksepp’s work. Step by [...]

[Mar 16, 2013 | No Comments | Permalink]
Barking On Command By kbehan

Learning To Bark Is A Wave Alwynne writes an excellent blog about her dog “Cholula” which among other themes documents the trials and tribulations of teaching a dog to speak on command. http://sweetslugabed.com/blog/2012/10/09/cholula-shows-her-speak/ What’s interesting about the bark-on-command is that some dogs get it instantly whereas for some dogs it can take a long, long…………long, [...]

[Oct 22, 2012 | 7 Comments | Permalink]
Why “Making Sense of the Nonsense” Doesn’t Make Sense By kbehan

It’s my premise that whenever one tries to explain a natural system (such as the animal mind) with a personality theory (the animal as a self-contained entity of intelligence) one will always generate self-defeating logic loops and this will require more and more complex rationales to keep these self-annihilating principles from running into each other. [...]

[Mar 01, 2012 | No Comments | Permalink]
Dominance: Out with the Old and in with the New By kbehan

The old definition of dominance meant a social hierarchy of rank, high status being sought because it accorded breeding privileges and since genetic proliferation is held as the mainspring of evolution. This definition was propagated by scientists who had gathered the data and interpreted the statistics, and was then disseminated by trainers and behaviorists to [...]

[Feb 21, 2012 | 2 Comments | Permalink]
Turning Instinct Into Drive By kbehan

Instinct is a load/overload manner of energy transfer. It’s how most animals most of the time make their living. Drive on the other hand is a steady-state energy transfer and it allows two beings to emotionally fuse so as their combined energies can overcome greater and greater objects of resistance. This is how complex hunting [...]

[Sep 05, 2011 | 21 Comments | Permalink]
Listen to the Q&A with Neil Sattin, Kevin Behan and Your Questions! By NDT

Neil Sattin of the Natural Dog Blog recently hosted a conference call with Kevin Behan. As he had mentioned in an earlier interview, he wanted to provide owners with the opportunity to speak directly with Kevin to get their most important questions answered. Below is an excerpt from Neil’s site about the conference: “We had [...]

[May 08, 2010 | No Comments | Permalink]
Growling By kbehan

What should I do if my dog growls at me? “I told my neighbor what happened and he said his dog growled at him, ONCE. Should I do what my neighbor did?” First, step away from the dog. Step back from the edge. Don’t do anything. Take a deep, deep breath and enjoy a long [...]

[Mar 17, 2010 | 52 Comments | Permalink]
In the past, when ever I've seen "natural dog training" it has seemed anything but natural to me By kbehan

It’s true that anyone can claim to be natural and in one sense, everyone is being natural because in the final analysis, the dog responds to what the trainer does through a naturally evolved temperament and so it’s always the dog’s nature that’s being affected no matter how arbitrary the training approach. The term natural [...]

[Mar 11, 2010 | No Comments | Permalink]
Kevin Heel Training with Laszlo By NDT

You can read more about the dog in this clip at the owner’s blog http://baddoglaszlo.blogspot.com/ . Laszlo, the doberman in the video, was a rescue dog that “upon adoption [he] instantly manifested all the most disturbing rescue-dog behavior problems you could conceive: unhinged aggression towards dogs, unpredictable edginess with people, jumping up, pulling like a [...]

[Sep 29, 2009 | 19 Comments | Permalink]

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