This series of videos are meant to show how I've chosen to work with Ellsa, as an individual and foster dog, housed and cared for full-time in my household.
Teaching Ellsa alternative behavior to jumping
Teaching Ellsa an alternative behavior to jumping will possibly prevent her from becoming a recycled rescue/shelter dog. Jumping is a serious problem, dogs lose their homes due to owners loss of patience and training.
According to Dr. Soraya V. Juarbe-Diaz, DVM, DACVB, CAAB, “Using punishment to stop behaviors is not new. Notice I say ‘stop’ rather than ‘teach’ — I can stop any behavior, but I am more interested in teaching my students, animal or human, to choose the behavior I want them to perform because they can trust me, because I do not hurt them and they are safe with me, and because the outcome is something they enjoy.
Boudicca loves catching frisbee!
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In the news today is the report that a baby girl in Indiana was the victim of an unprovoked attack by the family dog. It’s not unusual to hear this declaration from victims of bites, parents, animal control officers and the media. Even scientific literature lists a lack of provocation as a common reason for biting (sometimes an inference drawn by the authors, at other times simply a repetition of the available data).
Take the challenge, watch the videos without the sound as instructed. Think about what you see, then watch the videos again with the volume turned on. Listen to the people in the background. Allowing children to provoke wild animals in enclosed environments is a form of animal abuse. This type of behavior may support some opinion that captive animals kept in zoological parks does not serve any educational purpose, is purely entertainment and does not encourage respect for other animals and their lives.
April 10, 2010
Joyce Kesling, CDBC
Learned helplessness is a complex behavior first identified by Seligman in 1967 who was studying experimental neurosis. One of Seligman’s experiments found “…dogs exposed to traumatic inescapable shock showed signs of neurotic elaboration and disintegration on cognitive, emotional, and motivational levels of organization” according to Lindsay (2000).
The experiment included three groups, one group, escape trained (
