What makes a POLICE dog instructor, what should you expect from a bona fide instructor?
I have been addressing the above issues for the last few years. Now I really do not want to create a rift by bitching about people with zero police experiences training police dogs. But, they need to stay in their lane! In law enforcement there is a pretty classic view of […]
A History of Guide Dogs By Daniel Jacob
A History of Guide Dogs (Daniel Jacob lives in Canada. He is blind and has a guide dog) We all know the ancient Romans left an incredible legacy in the development of art, language, literature, technology and more. But who knew their culture also played a role in the history of guide-dogs? In […]
A Primer on Guide Dog Etiquette – By Daniel Jacob.
Never could I have imagined that, on a warm September night, a person would want to assault me for not being allowed to pet my dog while it was harnessed. Never do I feel so violated as when someone asks if they may pet the dog and, when I say no, they do it anyway, […]
All right, Instrumental Learning or O.C, get it? or not?
Tired of hearing about OC and people who believe OC means clicker training??? Yes clicker training can be defined by OC or by another name Instrumental Learning as well as by Pavlovian Conditioning. But damned these things tend to come with some politically charged opinions among the uneducated!! So, let’s look at learning as it […]
