Katie, you didn't type anything.

Are you OK? Has someone taken you hostage and duct taped your hands behind your back and you are trying to get help?

Did you black out?

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Hmmm, I think I'll move to innuendo.Maybe throw in a couple malapropisms.

Hang on just a minute, K. I've got to Google those words you just threw at me.

Speak slowly. I'm from Arkansaw.

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No care bears yet.

I really just want to know what Jeannie wished to accomplish by posting here?

Where did you learn of this thread? Were you googling yourself?

Is the way you are carrying yourself on this forum what you wish for people to see when they google your name? Because this topic is coming up on the first page of a google search.

I did not google myself. I was told by clients of mine who monitor and contribute to this board. I don't teach Schutzhund, or dogs for competitions. I am proud of all my accomplishments, have an excellent track record, and business has tripled since last year. I am not perfect. Each dog I work with is a learning experience, including this board. I found many helpful posts on other topics. My first post should have been worded differently, as it was taken by every expert the wrong way. Animal Behavior College was 9 stages of written curriculum and exams followed by 21 weeks of hands on experience with other trainers by working with shelter dogs, class settings and more. It was a year long process. I worked with shelter dogs years prior to that. Is it the top training school? No. Of course not. This post will be torn apart for some reason that has nothing to do with what it says, but I already expect that. If I didn't answer your question, please let me know.

Actually, I find it to be the most pleasant post you've made and makes you much more approachable. Admitting you wish you had worded your first post differently and that you are still learning, etc... you might have found some of our reactions to be different as well.

Same thoughts here. While I will *never* understand why someone would spend their hard-earned cash on something like ABC when there are such good dog training schools available, a post such as Jeannie's last post ( that uses a civil tone ) won't get "torn apart".

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 Quote: steve strom

Hmmm, I think I'll move to innuendo.Maybe throw in a couple malapropisms.

Hang on just a minute, K. I've got to Google those words you just threw at me.

You're right, always better to google, I never like to assume when innuendo is on the table!

Whoa! The words were there... I don't know what happened. I did copy what I posted (I always do in case of emergencies like these when my extra intelligent and wise posts don't show up :wink: )

But, it's basically what Barbara said anyways. Jeannie seemed like a totally different person in that post (for the better).

Jeannie,
I'm going to offer you some good advice, do with it what you will, but I mean it in the spirit of reconciliation- learn the "lingo" of being a professional dog trainer.

I'm talking about your use of the term "shock collar" early in the thread. Every professional dog trainer that I know would immediately correct a pet owner using that term ( and provide some badly needed education at that point ), for the honor grad of a dog training course ( and someone that calls themselves a certified professional dog trainer ) that just horrified me ( and every other trainer on this forum ) - did your training not stress something like this? This is one of the reasons that I rag on folks that attended the lower level schools, we see this behavior all the time from those graduates all the time, yet I've never seen it from a graduate from the "big two".

Honestly, you need to work on becoming part of the solution, not part of the problem - and if you're going to call yourself a professional, there are minimum standards that other dog trainers will judge you by, which you're not showing us ( and I'm sure that you don't really care what we think, but if we see it, your public may also, and that's bad for business ).

Again, I'm not trying to re-start the fight, I respect that you reached out with an olive branch and I don't want to mess that up, I'm just showing you some of the reasons that you were received here like you were.

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 Quote: steve strom

Hmmm, I think I'll move to innuendo.Maybe throw in a couple malapropisms.

Hang on just a minute, K. I've got to Google those words you just threw at me.

Speak slowly. I'm from Arkansaw.

Here ya go Mike. Its pretty close to Arkansan,you could probably just spread the letters further apart if you need to, just to help slow it down.

http://www.write-out-loud.com/types-of-verbal-humor.html

Somehow my mentor Will seems to have taking a few licks here. I'm shocked.

Mentor is a term that means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For me Will is the best example of mentor I have seen.

8 or 9 years ago he agreed to help me when I showed up at a seminar with an 8 month old working line bitch that I didn't have a clue what to do with.

He has spent untold hours on the field with me an my dogs and has kicked my butt when it needed to be. He has never, never taken a penny, even when he earned his living from dogs.

He pretty much gave me a dog he had held back when Pepper was diagnosed with HD.

He has shared every success I have had and has shared every disappointment. He has always taken my calls, even the ones in the middle of the night when I had some kind of doggie emergency.

Lets say "only" 7 years.

I hope to hell that one day I give back 10 percent of what he gave me.

And others. I saw it every Saturday.

Jeannie, if you are ever in North Florida stop by one Saturday, we train most of them. I think you will find it interesting.

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i dident realy want to get my dog fixed yet but the new trainer i went to said i realy should he is 9 months old and i was hopeing that anyonne who has followed any of my other posts would reply to this from what i have read this will not make his problems go away

I think you got some good advice and some good links from the thread earlier.

I am not really familiar with your breed but are they known to go through fear stages?

And if you obtained your dog through a breeder have you contacted him or her and asked their advice? A good breeder should know their lines and what is "normal" for that stage of development and what is not.

Just kind of throwing that out.