info[at]k9services.com.auDo you ever experience the frustration of family members refusing to enrol in the possibility of your dog becoming a precision trained obedience genius? Do your family members refuse to implement the same expectations as you do, or perhaps even contradict your teachings? If so then know that you aren’t alone – it happens, […]
Another dog bite fatality – dog bite prevention lessons learned?
Sound legislation, responsible canine guardianship and community education form the backbone of any effective community dog bite prevention strategy. Below is yet another tragic story that comes to us from the Philippines. The breed involved in this fatal dog bite incident is reported as being a Belgian Malinios, the same breed as the two bitches […]
Failed BSL prosecution costs over $200K?
[youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr8pJrHEBSQ” width=”560″ height=”315″ align=”centre” autohide=”0″ rel=”0″ showsearch=”0″ showinfo=”0″] The following is an open letter in reply to an article that appeared in The Age on 27 January 2013. A link to the article in question can be found at the base of this letter. Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) has proven to be throughly […]
Oh Heather, really?
[image_frame align=”centre” height=”500″ width=”406″] http://www.k9services.com.au/wp-content/uploads/training-equipment-variety-1.WM_-e1356046444339.jpg [/image_frame] [divider] A woman named Heather decided to make a ‘hit-and-run’ post on a facebook page we support before that calls for a common sense approach to legislation, access to and use of pinch/prong collars in Australia. Heather commented: there is nothing fantastic about this barbaric tool, honestly humans can […]
Dog laws lack bite – an open letter of reply
[image_frame style=”reflect” title = “Summer Breeze” align=”right” height=”600″ width=”403″] http://www.k9services.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Peaceful-Protest-Against-BSL-Rally-04-WM-RC-e1355739294668.jpg [/image_frame] [divider] The following letter was written as a reply to the author of a story that appeared on the news.com.au website on December 17th, 2012. There is a link to the story itself at the bottom of the article. Dear Mark, I write to […]
Dogs, Pack Behaviour And The Middle Ground
No reputable dog trainer will ever tell you that a dog is just a wolf in a gayly coloured furry coat. Equally, no dog trainer worth their salt will try and convince you that considering the evolutionary path from wolf to dog is without worth when discussing dog behaviour. There is a growing movement that […]
Selective Suppression For Successful Working And Performance Dogs.
[image_frame style=”shadow” align=”center” height=”560″ width=”800″]http://www.k9services.com.au/wp-content/uploads/GSD-x-Malinois-in-drop-on-grass.jpg[/image_frame] When raising a sporting, service or performance dog there is a common misconception that inhibiting a dog’s expression of instinct towards one stimulus will have an unavoidable negative effect to all other expressions of that instinct. Consider that if this were true then we would have to let our dogs […]
Partial Science Packaged As The Whole Truth And Wrapped In A Healthy Layer Of Guilt.
[image_frame style=”shadow” align=”center” height=”560″ width=”800″]http://www.k9services.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Motivational-Matrix-Drawing.jpg[/image_frame] Positive reinforcement is only one of four options that a trainer can apply in shaping and modifying behaviour. The higher the skill and experience levels of the dog trainer, the more ability the trainer has to appropriately apply each of the 4 options in a way that is best suited […]
Training Your Dog Can Be Cool
It’s not always easy to maintain your dog’s training in the summer heat, and this is especially so when you are working on/with performance or motivation dependant criteria in your dog. If you talk to people who actively use their dogs for working tasks such as hunting, police or service work, scent detection roles, etc. […]
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