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Posts tagged "Positive Reinforcement Training"

Kickstarter, Life's Ruff 2011 and the End of the Beginning

It’s early Sunday Morning and the first thing I did today, like I have been doing for the last 43 days, was check to see if we got any pledges for our online fundraiser.  My wife makes fun of me because I have become a chronic checker of the campaign.  I laugh when she’s tells... Read more »
By CDignan,
March 13, 2011 at 8:38 am
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Dog Training Advice: Clean it Up...This is a Family Show!

Now this video is just awesome. Good old time training only possible through good technique and good stimulus control. Read on after you watch! People just love to show off what their dogs can do.  Friends come over and at some point there is a demonstration as to what the host dog can do.  I... Read more »
By CDignan,
March 11, 2011 at 8:51 pm
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Life's Ruff Gets a "Kickstart!" Can You Help?

We’ve talked a lot about a show we launched not so long ago called Life’s Ruff. It got some great attention. Well, we’re finally on our way to getting it back up on stage at Gorilla Tango Theater. Our success is going to take a couple of things. 1) After a fruitful, fun and enlightening... Read more »
By vishnel,
February 4, 2011 at 3:26 pm
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Life's Ruff 2011: Dog Training for a Cause

A year or so ago we put on a stage show featuring regular owners and their dogs called “Life’s Ruff” .  The purpose of the show was to demonstrate that anyone, regardless of experience, can succeed with training their dogs using positive techniques as long as they were committed to the process.  We also wanted to help raise... Read more »
By CDignan,
January 9, 2011 at 1:38 pm
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10 Responsible Animal Rescue Guidelines

When I first started The Dog Saving Network I wanted to try to reach out and help as many rescues as possible by offering free training and behavior services.  A few rescues took us up on the offer and we got a first hand look at some of the hardships people in animal rescue face... Read more »
By CDignan,
December 4, 2010 at 9:28 am
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Shelter Dog Messaging: Training Dogs to Help Raise Awareness

There is no doubt that we have a canine overpopulation problem in our country.  There are many groups in existence that are doing what they can to try and drastically reduce the amount of lives lost every year.  These two videos below are our contribution.   The videos are almost identical except that they have slightly... Read more »
By CDignan,
November 28, 2010 at 2:54 am
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Can Performance Help Power an Animal Shelter?

People just love going to the circus. I’ll bet if you asked people what they enjoyed the most some would say the whole experience, others would say the performers but most would probably say that they enjoyed the trained animals in action. Elephants doing headstands, big cats jumping through flaming hoops, bears riding bicycles…all impressive... Read more »
By CDignan,
September 27, 2010 at 8:30 am
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Meet One of My Favorite Dog Trainers...Roger Lautt

Meet One of My Favorite Dog Trainers...Roger Lautt
Last year I had the opportunity to put on a little dog show called “Life’s Ruff”.   The show featured regular dogs and their owners and one of my goals for the show was to demonstrate that anyone can succeed with positive reinforcement training.  For me, the show was a huge success and the 3-4... Read more »
By CDignan,
September 13, 2010 at 9:33 am
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In Dog Training There Are No Free Lunches

As a country we spend ridiculous sums of money on treats for our dogs.  Hey, I’m a positive reinforcement trainer so I use ‘em too. But I do not use them all the time.  In fact, I can be a bit stingy with treats because I can can accomplish so much simply using the animal’s... Read more »
By CDignan,
July 11, 2010 at 7:39 am
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Twitter Loves Dogs

Saving the World, One Click at a Time. . . That’s my Twitter bio.  I just started this Twitter thing about a month ago and I don’t really know what to think of it yet.  I’ve had some brief–what else can they be when you’re stuck with writing under 140 characters?–”conversations” with people and what... Read more »
By CDignan,
July 7, 2010 at 9:00 am
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