It is very easy to forget how much of a pain training is when you have a dog for so long, but trust me, it's not as easy and quick as we all hope.
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I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.
I used to hurt myself by training all the time.
You really do learn every day with every dog; they are all so unique and different. But if you're patient and you understand where they're coming from, and if you are consistent, they will be fine. They teach you to give your full attention.
No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am the dog whisperer.
You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
If you have time to be with a dog, and the dog is smart, you come to understand the dog, and the dog understands you. They're not hard to train. But they have to be smart, and you have to spend time with them. It's like coaching. I was a better coach when I had smart players.
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.
Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.