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Robyn Hood, sister of Linda Tellington-Jones and a leading figure in the development of the Tellington TTouch Method, joins Rupert Isaacson in this insightful episode. Robyn has dedicated her life to refining and teaching TTouch, a revolutionary approach to working with horses, dogs, and other animals that fosters trust, connection, and healing. In this conversation, she delves into the origins of TTouch, its impact on equine well-being, and practical techniques that horse owners and equine-assisted practitioners can integrate into their work. Whether you're looking to deepen your relationship with your horse or explore a more mindful approach to training, this episode is filled with wisdom and practical insights. Learn more about Robyn's work here: https://learn.ttouch.ca | https://ttouch.comWhat You'll Learn in This Episode:The Origins and Philosophy of TTouch (Starts at 02:31)How Robyn and Linda developed TTouch.The inspiration behind the method and how it differs from traditional equine bodywork.Understanding the nervous system's role in movement and behavior.Key TTouch Techniques for Equine Well-being (Starts at 16:03)The Clouded Leopard touch and why it's a cornerstone of TTouch.The importance of gentle, mindful contact in building trust.How to identify and respond to equine tension and discomfort.Body Wraps and Their Impact on Equine Balance (Starts at 36:27)What body wraps are and how they work.How they help horses with proprioception, relaxation, and postural awareness.Practical applications for therapy horses and performance horses alike.TTouch for Enhancing Human-Equine Communication (Starts at 56:02)How to interpret subtle equine body language.Why intention matters in touch and training.How TTouch principles apply to groundwork and riding.Cross-Species Applications of TTouch (Starts at 1:14:22)How TTouch benefits dogs, cats, and even zoo animals.The surprising effects of touch on emotional regulation in animals.How to introduce TTouch to a new animal safely.The Role of TTouch in Equine-Assisted Therapy (Starts at 1:36:27)How TTouch helps therapy horses stay physically and emotionally sound.Why the well-being of the horse is just as important as the well-being of the client.Best practices for integrating TTouch into equine-assisted work.Memorable Moments from the Episode:How horses in equine-assisted therapy programs communicate their stress and how TTouch can help (12:03).The unexpected link between equine tension and emotional trauma (30:18).A fascinating case study on how body wraps helped a horse with chronic anxiety (49:52).The importance of mindful observation in horse training (1:07:15).How horses mirror human emotions and what that means for equine practitioners (1:22:40).The transformative effects of TTouch on performance horses, including those competing at the highest levels (1:48:15).Connect with Robyn Hood & Tellington TTouch:
Lindy Dekker joins Megan to talk about her journey with TTOUCH. Lindy shares how she learned this technique and the profound impact it has had on her life with animals. Learn more about Lindy Dekker: http://www.lindydekker.co.za/ Learn more about TTOUCH courses: https://learn.ttouch.ca/ Sign up for our free birthday webinars: https://onlinepethealth.com/gift/ Bookmark the Vet Rehab Summit: https://vetrehabsummit.com/ Learn more about CuraCore: https://curacore.org/vet/ To learn about Onlinepethealth, watch a free webinar, or join any of our Facebook groups, click here: https://onlinepethealth.com/podcast
In this episode of the Making Ripples podcast, we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Daniela Zurr, a distinguished behavioral veterinarian from Nuremberg, Germany. With over 25 years of experience as a veterinarian and a Tellington TTouch instructor, Dr. Zurr combines her expertise in behavioral medicine, zoo animal consultations, and positive reinforcement training to create innovative approaches to animal care. Dr. Zurr shares her journey from an early passion for reptiles to her current role, where she works with a wide range of animals, from household pets to zoo residents. She discusses the profound influence of mentors like Linda Tellington-Jones, the evolution of her work with TTouch, and the development of her holistic method to improve animal behavior and welfare. Listeners will gain insights into the principles of TTouch, including its focus on mindfulness, trust, and connection, and learn how it can be used to address behavioral challenges, prevent stress, and improve the bond between humans and animals. Dr. Zurr also shares personal stories, such as her experiences with her own rescue dog and her work with shelter animals, highlighting the importance of adaptability and compassion in animal care. Whether you're a pet owner, trainer, or behavior enthusiast, this episode offers a wealth of inspiration and practical advice for fostering trust and connection with the animals in your life. Links www.ttouch.com www.tellington-methode.de www.ttouch-n-click.de www.tierverhalten-zurr.de Email; mail@tierverhalten-zurr.de
Linda Tellington-Jones, a pioneer in equine welfare and therapeutic riding, is best known for the Tellington TTouch Method. A globally celebrated horsewoman, author, and teacher, Linda has spent decades redefining equine care, integrating holistic techniques that enhance horse and rider communication. Her unique methods, which blend science, compassion, and creativity, have transformed practices in equestrian care and therapeutic settings worldwide.In this inspiring conversation, Linda shares her lifetime of wisdom on equine well-being, human and horse emotional healing, and the role of gratitude and joy in achieving optimal health.What You'll Learn in This Episode:The Foundation of Equine Welfare (Starts at 0:46): Linda discusses the importance of gratitude and recognizing the individuality of horses, emphasizing how these practices elevate both horse welfare and human-horse relationships.The Science of Cellular Wisdom (Starts at 13:05): Drawing from years of experience and studies, Linda explores the cellular intelligence within horses and humans, explaining how TTouch methods enhance physical and emotional healing.Practical Applications of TTouch (Starts at 29:34): Learn how Tellington TTouch techniques like "the lick of the cow's tongue" and "tarantulas pulling the plow" help horses overcome physical challenges like back pain and stiffness.Enhancing Equine Assisted Programs (Starts at 45:20): Discover how gratitude, art, music, and sensory exercises transform equine-assisted therapy for clients and horses, creating a joyful and healing environment.Rehabilitating Therapy Horses (Starts at 1:02:15): Linda shares strategies for incorporating therapeutic rehabilitation into equine-assisted programs, using real-life examples of transforming "crocked" horses into thriving partners.The Connection Between Gratitude, Joy, and Healing (Starts at 1:20:50): Learn how gratitude fosters joy, and how both emotions play a crucial role in physical and mental well-being for both humans and horses.Memorable Moments from the Episode:Linda's reflections on gratitude as a starting point for equine care and healing (1:15:30).Insights into the power of light touch in activating the parasympathetic nervous system and fostering deep connection (29:50).A fascinating story about releasing fear through the "lick of the cow's tongue" technique (1:01:45).Linda's innovative use of tools like Beamer Blankets and LifeWave pain patches to aid in equine rehabilitation (33:20).Resources and Further Reading:LifeWave Pain Patches: https://www.lifewave.comMan on His Nature by Sir Charles Sherrington: https://amzn.to/3DpIy4hMolecules of Emotion by Dr. Candace Pert: https://amzn.to/3P9wffmHeartMath EMWave and Heart Coherence Tools: https://www.heartmath.com/emwave/Robert Monroe and the Monroe Institute: https://www.monroeinstitute.orgHeartMath Podcasts: https://www.heartmath.com/addheartpodcast/The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee: https://amzn.to/4gsCoz0Center for Attitudinal Healing: https://www.ahinternational.orgThe Book of Ho'oponopono by Ulrich Dupree: https://amzn.to/3DtjvgZTellington TTouch Training: https://ttouch.comLearn TTouch Courses: https://learn.ttouch.caLFRF Podcast with Linda Tellington-Jones: https://ntls.co/podcastContact Linda Tellington-Jones
In 1982 Robyn became involved full-time with the Tellington Method that was developed by her sister Linda. She has been the editor of the monthly Newsletter for more than 30 years. Since 1986 she has been teaching Tellington TTouch® Method on a full-time basis in Canada, the US, Europe, South Africa, and Australia and spends about 160 days a year traveling. Robyn has given demonstrations and lectures at various venues including Spruce Meadows; Equitana USA and Germany; Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan; International Humane Society Conference in Vienna and Murdoch University in Perth.
Have you ever wondered what pets would say if they could actually talk to you? And how to help your dog in pain? Animal Communicator Liz Murdoch talks with TTouch Practitioner Rachel Jackson about her work and teaching on the Tellington TTouch® Training Method. Liz and Rachel explore integrating intuitve awareness in treating pain and behaviour, proprioception and animal anatomy. Their conversation touches on what Rachel has learned through her private consultations and workshops and trainings, in person and online nationally and internationally. Learn more: Liz Murdoch is an intuitive animal communicator specializing in conversations with dogs, cats, and their people. My work is finding out from a pet's point of view what they need you to know so you can stop wondering or struggling, and actually resolve a dog or cat issue, including: why one barks at certain people, how to connect with your lost cat, or is it time for euthanasia? She has a Master's in Education from Columbia University, coaches privately, and teaches workshops "Understanding Your Pet intuitively". Apply for Liz's "Grow Your Intuition" retreat in May 2025. Check out my best-selling "Talking with the dogs! Journal" and award-winning "Dog Talk and Cat Chat Conversations Starter Cards": https://talkingwiththedogs.com/shop/o... LET'S CONNECT: Book a session with me and get your pet's perspective on any topic: https://talkingwiththedogs.com/work-w... → Website: https://talkingwiththedogs.com/ Instagram: / talkingwiththedogs Facebook: / talkingwiththedogs LinkedIn: / elizabethmurdoch Email: hello@lizmurdoch.com And remember! Don't forget to talk and listen to the animals in your life! For more on TTouch Practioner Rachel Jackson: www.wellbalancedanimals-vetphysio.co.uk or contact her wellbalancedanimals@gmail.com
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Farah has a great conversation with Robyn Hood of TTouch canada.
Mariana Galindo é a convidada de Conversas com CEO.A fundadora e CEO da TTouch, uma agência de publicidade com impacto social, considera que a sustentabilidade será mais cedo ou mais tarde integrada nas estratégias de marketing, levando até em conta que quer a geração Z, mas também todas as outras, valorizam cada vez mais as marcas com impacto social.
Hace unos años Wendela Bicker, terapeuta y formadora certificada del método Tellington TTouch, miembro de su equipo internacional y educadora canina. Todo esto lo lleva desde su sitio Happy Animales. Wendela además es miembro asociada de ANPECEC. En el segundo tramo del séptimo viaje de Pongamos que Hablo de Perros, Wendela habla con Jonás sobre su viaje personal hacia el TTouch y sus experiencias, con este método. ----- Puedes apoyar este proyecto de divulgar una forma más respetuosa, empática y amable de tratar a nuestros compañeros peludos. Si entras aquí y te haces patrocinador, por 3€ al mes (más IVA), dices que ¡ésto vale! O, si te parece una forma mejor, puedes ir directamente a la página de patreon. ----- Gracias por viajar con Pongamos que Hablo de Perros...
In 1982 Robyn became involved full-time with the Tellington TTouch Method. For the past three decades, she has been the editor of the TTEAM Newsletter and principle of Tellington TTouch Training Canada. Since 1986 she has been teaching TTouch on a full-time basis in Canada, the US, Europe, South Africa, Asia, and Australia, and New Zealand.
Interview with Linda Tellington-Jones.I'm very excited and pleased to announce an interview with the delightful Linda Tellington-Jones.Not only is Linda an amazing horse woman, she is also a very intuitive lady who has carved her own path in this world.Her skills and knowledge she has developed over the years was (and still is in parts) way ahead of her time.The more I listened to Linda talk, the more I realised what an amazing lady she truly is, and so humble in the process.So sit back, relax and I hope you enjoy this episode, where you will hear all about her work with horses, humans and so much more.Linda Tellington-Jones.Founder of the Worldwide Renowned Tellington TTouch MethodLinda Tellington-Jones is a world-famous horse expert. With her innovations, she has significantly contributed to the horse world for more than five decades. But not only the horse scene profits from Linda's ideas: The Tellington TTouch Method is just as successfully applied to domestic, wild, and zoo animals as well as humans.Linda Tellington-Jones has published over 20 books and 10 educational films in 15 different languages over the years. There are over 1,700 certified Tellington-TTouch trainers for horses, dogs, and people in 27 countries who use and teach the methods.In 2008, Linda Tellington-Jones received an honorary doctorate from Wisdom University in California for her services. Linda Tellington-Jones lives with her husband, Roland Kleger, in Hawaii and still teaches TTouch worldwide.In 1975 Linda began her 4-year long training as a Feldenkrais teacher at the "Institute of Humanistic Psychology" in San Francisco. At the same time, she began to develop the Tellington Method for horses. In Germany, she published the book "How to educate your horse" together with icon Ursula Bruns, which has become a classic among guidebooks for horses.In 1983 she invented the famous circular touches, called Tellington TTouch. She holds lectures at veterinary congresses in Europe and in the USA. In 1987 a research project on the effect of TTouch on the brain waves in humans was started, marking a breakthrough for her method. For any further information on linda click on the links below.People Linda mentioned in this episode:https://feldenkrais.comhttps://greggbraden.comhttps://judeegee.comhttps://ttouch.com/https://www.facebook.com/TellingtonTTouchWorldhttps://www.youtube.com/@T Video version (alongside applicable podcasts) can be viewed on facebook and YouTube.https://www.facebook.com/equinevoices.co.ukhttps://www.youtube.com/@equinevoicesukhttps://www.instagram.com/equinevoices.ukContact Ronnie.mailto:equinevoicesronnie@gmail.com
In this episode, Anita talks about TTouch®TTouch® was developed by internationally recognised animal expert, Linda Tellington-Jones, over 30 years ago. It is used around the world by animal owners, trainers, veterinarians, zoo personnel and rescue shelters.The Tellington method can help to deepen the relationship with your animal, Improve behaviour, enhance performance, support health and well-being and foster new learning. The method is based on cooperation and respect for all animals and their people, which honours the body, mind and spirit of animals. It helps to develop trust between humans and animals.TTouch® supports cellular communication and enhances the healing potential of the body.TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ANITA:Visit her website: Home ⋆ Anita Denise Psychic MediumJoin her on Facebook or over on Instagram (@anitadenise1)
Dans la serie "vie ma vie de chien", je vous propose aujourd'hui de m'accompagner au bienvenue au Japon. J'ai rencontré Chikako à Tokyo qui vit avec ses 2 chiens. Vous verrez comme il est compliqué de vivre avec un chien de grande taille au Japon. Vous serez surpris du véritable culte que les Japonais vouent à la propreté dans l'espace publique. Vous découvrirez les rapports que les Japonais entretiennent avec leurs chiens, des rapports bien particuliers, souvent étonnants et parfois choquants. Et à l'occasion de ce voyage, j'ai appris l'existence de chiens errants au Japon. C'est ma seconde invitée Julie qui vit à Tokyo depuis 17 ans qui m'a fait découvrir une petite association japonaise spécialisée dans le sauvetage et la défense des chiens nés dans la nature. Avec elle, nous aborderons les questions des animaleries, de l'accès aux soins ainsi que les différents courants d'éducation, y compris la méthode Ttouch qu'elle utilise pour aider ces chiots à s'adapter dans leurs nouvelles vies. On en parle dans l'épisode : 1/ Association Shippo No Mikata Instagram et site internet 2/ Tellington TTouch "Change the world one TTouch at a time” Site français https://www.tellington-ttouch.fr/ Pour plus d'infos voir le site US https://ttouch.com/ Equipement Tellington TTouch (harnais et laisse Harmony) en vente sur le site de Lisa Leicht, instructrice Tellington TTouch Suisse-France: https://www.lisaleicht.ch/ 3/ Canine Unlimited, positive training à Tokyo & pension pour chiens au Mont Fuji https://www.facebook.com/canine.unlimited/?locale=ja_JP 4/ L'histoire d'un petit chiot qui raconte sa courte vie du paradis. Ecrit, illustré et narré par Kiana, 10 ans, sur la réalité de l'industrie des animaux de compagnie au Japon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3d4GXD7Pnw --- Photo de la vignette : statue Hachiko à Tokyo --- Pour aider le podcast à rester indépendant et à se developper, vous pouvez soutenir CHUU podcast financièrement sur Utip :https://utip.io/CHUUpodcast --- Si le podcast vous plait, le meilleur moyen pour me soutenir et pour me le faire savoir, c'est de laisser 5 étoiles et un commentaire sur Itunes ou apple podcast. Cela encouragera surement d'autres passionnés de chiens à venir découvrir et écouter CHUU. Pour me poser des questions et suivre mon aventure en images, je vous invite à vous abonner à ma page instagram @chuu_podcast --- Musique de l'intro et conclu : Rise and Shine de Juzzie Smith
Robyn Hood, Linda Tellington-Jones sister, has been starting horses for many years. Raising over 200 head of Icelandic Horses with breeding stock she has vast experience working with young foals, yearlings and starting horses under saddle. Listen to this fascinating discussion of how to halter a foal safely and with intention as well as other great tips for working with young stock.
En gång ljudrädd alltid rädd?Nej fullt så illa är det inte men när hunden väl blivit rädd för ett ljud är det absolut en ökad risk att för att hunden bli rädd för flera ljud. Ljudrädsla som inte tränas bort tenderar att sprida sig.I veckans avsnitt berättar Milene bland annat om ett par studier som undersökt hur länge, och det är riktigt länge, som rädslan finns kvar i en ljudrädd hunds kropp efter den blivit rädd. Och vi förklarar även varför “vid behovs-medicinering” kan vara så enormt viktigt för ljudrädda hundar samt hur det fungerar!“Det är inte garanterat att hunden med ljudrädda föräldrar blir drabbad men det finns en högre risk”“För tre procent av hundarna tog det flera månader innan de hade återhämtat sig helt”“Träning hjälper både som förebyggande och för de som redan är rädda”“Ju tidigare ägaren börjar att träna förbyggande desto större blir effekten”“Har vi en ljudrädd hund behöver vi alltså skydda den från att bli rejält rädd igen”“Jag vill påminna om att läkemedel inte är en trollstav eller substitut för träning”Du lär dig även varför det är så enormt viktigt att vi inte lämnar en ljudrädd hund ensam om det finns minsta risk för skrämmande ljud!TAGGA MILENEHar du en ljudrädd hund? Det vore toppenkul att höra vad du tänker om det vi diskuterade idag. Tagga oss och berätta, @braverdogssweden på Insta, Facebook, YouTube och TikTok!BEHÖVER DU HJÄLP ELLER INSPIRATIONPå utbud.BraverDogs.com finner alla Braver Dogs kurser och tjänster!BRAVER DOGS NYHETSBREVSkriv upp dig på Braver Dogs Nyhetsbrev så får du våra nyheter, erbjudanden och så klart ett mail varje gång vi släpper ett nytt poddavsnitt! KÄLLORDRESCHEL & GRANGER (2005) Physiological and behavioral reactivity to stress in thunderstorm-phobic dogs and their caregiversJORDBRUKSVERKET. (ND) Djurskyddsbestämmelser; hund.LINDSAY, R, S. (2005) Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training, Vol. 3: Procedures and ProtocolsOVERALL, K. (2013) Manual of Clinical Behavioral Medicine for Dogs and CatsOVERALL, K. (2020) Noise Phobia with Dr. Karen Overall, i podden Cog Dog RadioSTEFANIE RIEMER (2019) Not a one-way road—Severity, progression and prevention of firework fears in dogsTIIRA, K., SULKAMA, S. & LOHI, H. (2016) Prevalence, comorbidity, and behavioral variation in canine anxietyWALLIN, M. (2016) TTouch lugnande bandageMentioned in this episode:LJUDRÄDSLA MasterclassLjudRädsla Masterclass är självstudiekursen för dig som vill lära dig bygga upp en ljudrädd hunds självförtroende med modern, reko träning där hunden själv väljer att aktivt delta! Självstudiekursen inkluderar grundläggande teori som skapar förståelse, instruktionsvideos med övningar, praktiska video-exempel...
Dimentica il controllo.Dimentica le aspettative.Impara a osservare e osservarti, impara la presenza , impara ad affidarti anche alle tue intuizioni, al tuo sentire e non solo a ciò che pensi.Diventa un centro solido e coerente per il tuo cane, proprio come sarebbe bene fare con te stesso. Se il cane è un prolungamento della nostra parte emozionale, e noi non abbiamo sviluppato dentro di noi un centro solido, allora potrebbe essere un problema, e forse qui potresti trovare la risposta perchè le lezioni di educazione cinofila non stanno funzionando.In questo episodio ti guido .. nell'oltre. Quell'oltre che il Tellington TTouch può aiutarci a sfiorare.Playlist di video sul TTouch in cui trovi i riferimenti di cui parlo nell'episodio : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGnaHq9mRVmJ14skJLsu0r7eZ0ow0G1ge## FAMMI SAPERE COSA NE PENSI SU TELEGRAM !!!!! ##https://web.telegram.org/z/#-1714076426su #INSTAGRAM# taggami nelle stories o scrivimi in privato:https://www.instagram.com/il_lupo_sul_sentiero/Puoi scrivermi anche a questa mail : luposulsentiero@gmail.comPer lasciare una recensione: https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/il-lupo-sul-sentiero/id1601602187### ISCRIVITI ###Su Spreaker : https://www.spreaker.com/show/il-lupo-sul-sentieroSu Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4chbGpiDapXeCk1orPWrmF --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luposulsentiero/message
In dieser Podcast-Folge von Auf Trab zu Gast ist Martin Lasser, staatlich geprüfter Reitlehrer und lizenzierter Tellington Practioner 3 für Pferde und Kleintiere. Er erklärt die Basics der Tellington-Touch-Methode bei der man eigentlich nichts falsch machen kann und auch keine besondere Ausrüstung braucht. Man startet mit Linda´s Grund-Touch, dem Wolkenleopard. Hier legt die Fingerkuppen vorsichtig auf die Stelle, die man touchen möchte auf, stellt sich eine Uhr vor. Man beginnt bei sechs Uhr undzieht mit dem Fingerkuppen im Uhrzeigersinn gleichmäßige ein Viertel Kreis auf dem Fell. Das Ganze geht natürlich auch gegen den Uhrzeigersinn – dagegen mach Sinn, wenn ein Pferd wirkliche Probleme oder Schmerzen hat. Bei der Übung zählt man „Einundzwanzig, zweiundzwanzig“. Das wäre einmal die Standardgeschwindigkeit für den TTouch, die man an das Temperament und der aktuellen Befindlichkeit des Pferdes anpassen kann, ebenso wie den Druck, mit den man arbeitet. Effektiv toucht man am Saumrand, also direkt oberhalb der Hufe, weil hier viele Akupunkturpunkte zusammenlaufen. Getoucht wird gerne auch an der Schulter oder an der Kruppe. Beim Touchen das Pferd bitte nicht anbinden. So merkt man sofort, ob dem Pferd das touchen angenehmen ist oder ob es lieber von der Berührung wegläuft. TTouch sind keine Massage, betont Martin, der Druck ist geringer, fällt eher in die Kategorie Wellness. Die Methode wird bei psychischen und physischen Problemen des Vierbeiners, aber auch zur Entspannung und zur Heilung gerne angewandt, aber auch vor dem reiten. Was es genau mit den 36 TTouches in verschiedenen Stärken, Geschwindigkeiten, mit und gegen den Uhrzeigersinn auf sich hat, erfährst Du in dieser Folge von AUF TRAB von Tellington-Practitioner Martin Lasser, den ich auf der Apropos Pferd in Wiener Neustadt interviewen durfte. Meine Welschies und ich würden uns freuen, wenn Du den Podcast AUF TRAB auf der Podcastplattform Deiner Wahl oder auf YouTube liken und den Kanal abonnieren würdest, damit Du keine Folge mehr verpassen kannst. Vor allem aber, bleib auf AUF TRAB, bis zum nächsten Samstag! Musik- und Soundrechte: https://auftrab.eu/index.php/musik-und-soundrechte/ #Pferde #LindaTellington #MartinLasser #TTouch #AproposPferd #WienerNeustadt #Wolkenleopard #Waschbär #Schmerzen #Berührung #AufTrab #podcast Foto: JS
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Hai mai pensato a quanto quello che pensi possa influire sulla tua vita ( e di chi ti circonda, inclusi i nostri cani?)E' possibile creare il "paradiso in terra"?La scienza può aiutarci in questo?E la spiritualità?Ma scienza e spiritualità sono davvero separate ? o insieme possono aiutarci a raggiungere la felicità?Oggi parliamo di tecniche per Cambiare le convinzioni inconsce che ci limitano nella vita e che vanno a sabotare le nostre azioni e la nostra felicità.Bruce Lipton e Il Theta Healing si incontrano per confermare quanto scienza e spiritualità possano aiutarci in sinergia a creare il nostro "Paradiso in Terra"http://www.bruce-lipton.ithttps://www.esserecambiamento.it/thetahealing/Il mio video su TTouch e potere dell'Intenzione: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=rQ3KW0NArqoLa memoria dell'acqua : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Une4lWTkGLgEpisodio Il potere dell'intenzione ( Il lupo sul sentiero):https://www.spreaker.com/episode/48910863## FAMMI SAPERE COSA NE PENSI SU TELEGRAM !!!!! ##https://web.telegram.org/z/#-1714076426su #INSTAGRAM# taggami nelle stories o scrivimi in privato:https://www.instagram.com/il_lupo_sul_sentiero/Puoi scrivermi anche a questa mail : luposulsentiero@gmail.comPer lasciare una recensione: https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/il-lupo-sul-sentiero/id1601602187### ISCRIVITI ###Su Spreaker : https://www.spreaker.com/show/il-lupo-sul-sentieroSu Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4chbGpiDapXeCk1orPWrmF --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luposulsentiero/message
In 1982 Robyn became involved full-time with the Tellington Method that was developed by her sister Linda. She has been the editor of the monthly Newsletter for more than 30 years. Since 1986 she has been teaching Tellington TTouch® Method on a full-time basis in Canada, the US, Europe, South Africa, and Australia and spends about 160 days a year traveling. Robyn has given demonstrations and lectures at various venues including Spruce Meadows; Equitana USA and Germany; Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan; International Humane Society Conference in Vienna and Murdoch University in Perth.
Die Zauberkreise heissen eigentlich Tellington Touch und sind eine sanfte Körpertherapie für Tier und Mensch. Mein 3-jähriger Sohn nennt sie Zauberkreise, und das sind sie auch ein bisschen.
Good morning, afternoon, evening wherever you are in the world right now, this is Amrys Wang of The Raw Entrepawneur! This is a special series "TRE In Conversation With Dr Josie Beug" in collaboration with Dr Josie Beug, founder of Dr Josie's 5 Element Animal Wellness (https://www.facebook.com/drjosiebeug) and Reverence community, where we speak to amazing people who want to share their passion and some times unconventional views in a long-form format. Today's episode is with Norma Ceaser, founder of The Animal-Human Connection. I am so blessed to have been part of this conversation where I learnt a lot from both Dr Josie and Norma. The more I learn, the less I know. Thank you to both Dr Josie and Norma for making the time to share their experiences with me and now with you. Namaste Bio: Norma Ceaser THE ANIMAL-HUMAN CONNECTION 610-927-6579……nceaser48@protonmail.com Animals have been a significant influence in my life from my earliest years, and I have worked with them in some capacity since childhood. In 1995, I established my practice, The Animal-Human Connection. Since that time, I have been utilizing my animal communication and TTOUCH skills to help thousands of animals across the USA and Canada . By combining communication and TTOUCH skills, many physical conditions can be identified and addressed before they escalate. I then work with the animal's human companions to teach them how to maintain the highest possible level of physical and emotional well-being for each animal. This approach has has led to successful modification/elimination of unacceptable behaviors. Often, the inappropriate behaviors are the result of an unrecognized physical or emotional issue. Once the underlying cause is identified, TTOUCH can help restore physical well-being, emotional and physical balance, and a cooperative spirit. It's important to understand that the animals who come into our lives do so with a real purpose, far beyond anything we imagine. Our animals all have a great deal to teach us, if only we will learn to listen in a different way. Other aspects of my practice include training/behavior modification, nutrition counseling, guidance regarding appropriate vaccine protocols, selection of non-toxic methods of flea/tick/heartworm prevention, appropriate supplements, safe use of essential oils and herbs, proper exercise, and more. My totally holistic approach to animal care, health, behavior and well-being has proven successful in countless cases. I am pleased to be recommended by veterinarians, shelters, rescue groups, and other animal professionals. In addition to individual private sessions, both in-home and via telephone, I conduct workshops for small groups, including Nutrition, TTOUCH, Animal Communication, Essential Oils, Natural Products For Healthy Animals, and Behavior Modification. Most recently, I am working with Venjenz K9 to develop online training modules for those who want to become better informed, and more proactive in managing their animals' health and well-being. My clients include dogs, cats, horses, birds, other domestic house pets, and assorted farm animals. It is my profound belief that the animals have as much to teach us as we have to teach them. It is our responsibility to properly care for and respect them......in return, they give us unconditional love and acceptance. We could not ask for more. https://drjosies5elements.mn.co
World-renowned equine expert Linda Tellington-Jones' healing equine bodywork and innovative training methods have revolutionized the horse training landscape over the last 50 years. Her unique blend of hands-on TTouch (a collection of circles, lifts, and slides done with the hands over various parts of the horse's body), combined with humane groundwork and under-saddle exercises, has helped solve training and behavioral problems for horses of every breed, every discipline, every age, and all levels. Her books, including The Ultimate Horse Behavior and Training Guide and Dressage with Mind, Body and Soul have helped horses and horse people around the globe find better, more humane ways to solve both behavioral and training problems.Linda and Warwick discuss the events that lead Linda to think about horsemanship and healing differently, a trend that has been the precedent for modern horsemanship practices.Linda's Website: https://ttouch.com/Warwick has over 650 Online Training Videos that are designed to create a relaxed, connected, and skilled equine partner. Start your horse training journey today!https://videos.warwickschiller.com/Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WarwickschillerfanpageWatch hundreds of free Youtube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/warwickschillerFollow us on Instagram: @warwickschiller
这是一档由犬行为训练师（微博@六只脚尚小欢-KnowYourDogs）和人类心理工作者&猫狗饲主茶茶（微博@小野是野王）探讨各类关于猫猫狗狗话题的泛科普类对话节目。欢迎点击右上角订阅我们的节目，也希望大家能够多在评论区和我们交流你对这期节目的感受，你的评论是我们更新的动力！本期的话题是我们策划很久也非常非常期待来展开聊聊的议题——动物沟通。这对于大部分人来说，好像是一个与其他不可知领域一样的玄学话题，但本次我们想从亲历者的角度和大家聊聊对这件事的体验和感受，聊聊我们能从动物身上学到的东西，也聊聊从动（植）物的视角看，它们自己到底是什么样的存在。本期飞行嘉宾：Lauren McCall：国际知名动物沟通师、讲者、作家，以及TTouch导师。Lauren经常受邀至讲座与会议担任讲师，从动物的观点出发，来探讨各种不同的议题。她的动物沟通与TTouch的客户遍及全球，也在美国、加拿大、欧洲、台湾和日本从事教学。王波：六只脚宠物训练师、动物沟通师、美国TTouch认证疗愈师（微博@六只脚宠物-王波）本期我们主要探讨的议题：1、动物沟通和占卜、占星、萨满这些神秘学概念有什么不同？2、主播们对动物沟通的第一印象和态度改观的过程3、动物沟通教会我们的事4、动物沟通中的伦理5、动物沟通是否能代替行为调整？6、动物沟通的过程是怎么发生的？7、家养动物、野生动物和流浪动物的沟通有什么区别？8、人类对动物最大的三个误解9、Lauren老师职业生涯中最喜欢的一个动物沟通的案例时间线：2：20 主播分享自己对动物沟通是如何改观的和自己的动物沟通经历15：00 动物沟通中的伦理：尊重动物自己的想法16：30 我们能用动物沟通来调整动物的行为吗？21：00 动物沟通师可以和自己的动物沟通吗？25：00 动物沟通是什么？27：00 动物沟通是发送和接收语言背后真实的意图33：00 动物沟通和其他玄学、神秘学概念有什么区别？40：50 家养动物会非常乐意与人交流，而野生动物可能会对人有戒备44：00 野生动物并没有把人类当回事，是人类自己觉得自己很重要46：00 动物沟通很重要的一个点是真正了解动物的观点46：30 心电感应可以用于和人类交流吗？49：30 动物沟通可以用于寻找流浪动物吗？57：40 人类对动物的误解1：动物的自我/自尊61：05 人类对动物的误解2：动物如何看待关系64：00 王波老师分享一个令人印象深刻的沟通案例66：30 人类对动物的误解3：动物如何看待死亡70：45 茶茶分享沟通经验中人类对动物的误解：动物比人类想象中成熟很多74：14 王波老师分享在非洲和一棵树沟通的案例78：00 Lauren老师认为动物沟通工作中最重要的事79：30 Lauren老师和章鱼对话的简介82：33 Lauren老师和章鱼的对话
"Il vero viaggio non è scoprire nuove terre ma avere nuovi occhi": partendo da questa frase di Marcel Proust faremo un vero e proprio viaggio interiore accompagnati da Bruno, da Thomas, dai cani randagi, supportati dal TTouch e ponendoci sempre tante domande senza voler mai dare verità assolute. Siamo in viaggio insieme e sono felice di condividerlo con voi.Buon ascolto !###!!!!!!! IL LINK DELLA NUOVA PAGINA INSTAGRAM !!!!!! ###https://www.instagram.comPier Giorgio caselli , "la vita ti aiuta quando molli il controllo" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlFVEb38oaIL'ultimo video del TTouch uscito sul mio canale YouTube BDOG BFREE : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpU3SEcr6SE&t=1sSito TTouch con articoli per approfondire: https://www.tteam.it## CANALE TELEGRAM ##https://web.telegram.org/z/#-1714076426Per lasciare una recensione: https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/il-lupo-sul-sentiero/id1601602187### ISCRIVITI ###Su Spreaker : https://www.spreaker.com/show/il-lupo-sul-sentieroSu Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4chbGpiDapXeCk1orPWrmFPuoi scrivermi anche qui : luposulsentiero@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luposulsentiero/message
In questo episodio, denso di argomenti, partiremo parlando della "pausa", che è uno degli elementi del TTouch ( puoi trovare in basso il link dei video corrispondenti) per arrivare a parlare di meditazione e collegandoci infine a questo drammatico momento storico, in cui la paura sta salendo in tutti noi in seguito alla guerra in atto tra Russia e Ucraina.Imparare a "stare" è una grande sfida per l'essere umano e anche in questo gli animali ci fanno da modelli, essendo naturalmente esempio di presenza .Il potere di adesso, libro di Eckart Tolle: https://www.macrolibrarsi.it/libri/__il-potere-di-adesso-una-guida-all-illuminazione-spirituale-libro-eckhart-tolle-libro.phpArticolo sui benefici della meditazione: https://www.meditazionezen.it/76-benefici-della-meditazione/Articolo sull'esperimento sugli effetti della meditazione di massa : https://lospecchiodelpensiero.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/meditazione-di-massa-le-prove-scentifiche/il link ai video del progetto Tellington TTouch, per approfondire: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGnaHq9mRVmJ14skJLsu0r7eZ0ow0G1geVideo di Piergiorgio Caselli :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9WMQ6wBl4&t=1233s## IL NUOVO CANALE TELEGRAM!!!!! ##https://web.telegram.org/z/#-1714076426Per lasciare una recensione: https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/il-lupo-sul-sentiero/id1601602187### ISCRIVITI ###Su Spreaker : https://www.spreaker.com/show/il-lupo-sul-sentieroSu Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4chbGpiDapXeCk1orPWrmFPuoi scrivermi anche qui : luposulsentiero@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luposulsentiero/message
Cosa succederebbe se scoprissimo che l'acqua è dotata di coscienza propria e in grado di rispondere autonomamente a stimoli a cui è sottoposta tra cui pensieri, parole ed emozioni?Considerando che siamo fatti d'acqua per 3/4 del nostro corpo forse inizieremmo ad essere più attenti a ciò che pensiamo e diciamo e come ci rivolgiamo agli altri e ai nostri cani .Questo è il potere dell'intenzione, che è uno degli elementi del TTouch alla base della filosofia di questo metodo.In questo episodio, attraverso la storia di Bruno, un cane definito problematico, rifletteremo su come ciò che pensiamo possa influire prepotentemente sulle nostre relazioni, prima fra tutte quella con i nostri cani .Qui puoi trovare la seconda puntata del percorso del TTouch del mio canale YouTube BDOG BFREE a cui faccio riferimento nell'episodio:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ3KW0NArqo&t=420sIl libro "Cambiare prospettiva": https://haqihana.com/it/libri/20-cambiare-prospettiva-psicologia-positiva-per-cani.htmlIl libro di Masaru Emoto : https://www.macrolibrarsi.it/libri/__i_messaggi_dall_acqua.phpErrata Corrige : L' esperimento sulla meditazione di cui vi parlo nell ‘ episodio non è stato fatto a New York ma a Washington D.C. ## IL NUOVO CANALE TELEGRAM!!!!! ##https://web.telegram.org/z/#-1714076426Per lasciare una recensione: https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/il-lupo-sul-sentiero/id1601602187### ISCRIVITI ###Su Spreaker : https://www.spreaker.com/show/il-lupo-sul-sentieroSu Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4chbGpiDapXeCk1orPWrmFPuoi scrivermi anche qui : luposulsentiero@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luposulsentiero/message
A chi non è capitato di sentirsi bloccato nella vita?Quando ci troviamo in un momento di svolta e dobbiamo abbandonare una zona di comfort, qualunque essa sia, le resistenze e la paura prendono il sopravvento.Anche se quella zona di comfort ci fa stare male, è l'unica cosa che conosciamo ed è l'unica certezza a cui aggrapparci.Magari desideriamo intraprendere quel progetto, o quel percorso o quel cambio di vita, lo desideriamo profondamente ma non riusciamo a fare quel primo passo per andare oltre quel confine verso l'ignoto.Questo mi rimanda all'immagine di Macchia, oggi Harlock ( racconto la sua storia nell'episodio 9) e me, bloccati davanti alla nave, in stallo, e non poter tornare indietro, ma non riuscire ad andare avanti.Essere li in sospeso, tra vecchio e nuovo bloccati in quella paura che ti congela completamente. Anche Thomas, con il suo blocco nel salire in machina è stato motivo di riflessione su me stessa e sul mio sentirmi bloccata in quel periodo della mia vita.E ancora una volta i cani ci aiutiamo a riflettere su parti di noi, facendoci da specchio.Il nuovo progetto TTouch di cui parlo nell'episodio : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUsIGnQkliQ## IL NUOVO CANALE TELEGRAM!!!!! ##https://web.telegram.org/z/#-1714076426Per lasciare una recensione: https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/il-lupo-sul-sentiero/id1601602187### ISCRIVITI ###Su Spreaker : https://www.spreaker.com/show/il-lupo-sul-sentieroSu Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4chbGpiDapXeCk1orPWrmFPuoi scrivermi anche qui : luposulsentiero@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luposulsentiero/message
農曆年來了， 接著會有好幾天，大街小巷都隨時有可能出現許多毛孩們害怕的放炮聲！ 2016年在台北華陰街被領養的小天，家就住在許多宮廟旁， 在某一年過年時分和媽媽外出散步時， 店家竟無腦的直接把炮丟在小天和媽媽面前！ 當場嚇得他們花容失色魂飛魄散！ 好在媽媽牽繩牽的緊小天沒有跑到， 但....從那天起，小天出現了一連串的令人難以理解的異常行為... 來聽聽看小天媽媽用了兩年， 是如何一步一步帶著小天恢復健康狗生的 今天這集含金量很高，家裡有狗的人真的都應該聽聽， 一定能幫助你更了解家裡狗兒喔！ 第一段：過年散步時被鞭炮炸到的過程 第二段：事後一連串問題出現，流口水、在家撞牆、狂發抖、喘氣、咬傷小孩大人 第三段：長達兩年，嘗試各種辦法解決：TTouch 、訓練師行為訓練、家訪、環境管理 第四段：治療的過程，家人的理解與支持很重要 #浪浪別哭 #追蹤幸福
Linda Tellington-Jones, creator of TTouch, studied with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais in the 70's. Wendy first met Linda in 1985 a year after a serious riding accident. Six years ago Linda saw SURE FOOT for the first time. The TTouch and SURE FOOT have a philosophical root in the understanding based on the ideas fostered from Dr. Feldenkrais. In this webinar Wendy and Linda share their thoughts on SURE FOOT.
In July 2019 Wendy Murdoch went to the Icelandic Horse Farm, in Vernon, BC to do a SURE FOOT Experiment. Working with Bob, an OTTB over 3 days we recorded the changes simply by using the SURE FOOT Pads. This is the one year update on Bob's progress and how, combined with the TTEAM Balance Rein and Neck Rope Bob continues to improve.
Debby Potts have been teaching TTouch for over 30 years. She is also a 4 HOOF SURE FOOT Practitioner. Listen to how Debby found SURE FOOT (a horse of course sent her to the first training with Linda Tellington-Jones) and Wendy has known Debby since 1986. Learn more about SURE FOOT and the Practitioners levels in this webinar.
I talk to Sue about grooming dogs at home, preparing them for a visit to the salon and how to take the Grrr out of grooming. Sue is a groomer, behaviourist, TTouch practitioner and trainer amongst other things. Sue has written two books, has a Facebook group and runs a monthly membership group to help make grooming as stress free as possible for your dogs. Take the Grr out of Grooming is available from Sue or on amazon.
Dr Matt Muir is an Intergrative Clinician and Director at All Natural Vet Care in Russell Lea in Sydney's Inner West. Matt graduated with Honours in Veterinary Medicine at Charles Sturt in Wagga Wagga and hails from the Riverina of NSW. In this episode, Matt returns to discuss the pros and cons of Spaying and Neutering. Matt harnesses the best of both worlds to bring the best options to preventative health for his clients and their Guardians. After graduation, Matt continued to study Traditional Chinese Medicine along with Chinese Food Medicine and Western Herbal Medicine. Matt uses various therapies in his consultations, including massage and TTouch.To get in touch with Dr Matt Muir Click HereHey, thanks for listening to the Canine Ed Podcast! You can find more about Canine Ed through our website or check in with us on Facebook and InstagramCanine Ed is dedicated to bringing great training for people and their dogs to the community. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review, so you can help share the news!Important Note: It's FREE to subscribe to the Canine Ed Podcast! New to podcasts? The basic concept is like listening to a radio channel where you get to select the topic! Instead of listening to music you don't like or getting worn down by talk radio, you can binge on Canine Ed episodes. You can even pause, rewind and even share your leisure! There are several online platforms where you can access The Canine Ed Podcast. My suggestion – go with the old trusty standby, iTunes. This app comes preinstalled on most iPhones and iPads. If you have an Apple iphone, follow these steps next to subscribe/download the podcast. Step 1. Click the Podcasts app and then click the magnifying glass in the bottom-right corner to Search. Step 2. Type “The Canine Ed Podcast” in the search bar at the top. Step 3. From ...
这是一档由犬行为训练师（微博@六只脚尚小欢-KnowYourDogs）和好奇心旺盛的猫狗饲主茶茶（微博@小野是野王）探讨各类关于猫猫狗狗话题的泛科普类对话节目。欢迎点击右上角订阅我们的节目，也欢迎你在评论区告诉我们你的感想和你感兴趣的话题^_^本期节目是六只脚于7月31日在微博上的直播的录音版本，在直播中我们详细聊了TTouch宠物疗愈、疼痛问题和动物沟通。本期飞行嘉宾：王波|六只脚宠物训练师/美国TTouch认证疗愈师（微博@六只脚宠物-王波）由于内容中有一些TTouch手势的模拟，欢迎大家在直播回放中找到相应的内容https://m.weibo.cn/2589535231/4664940918999316以及波波老师还录制了一个专门的疫情期间TTouch指南https://m.weibo.cn/2589535231/4466902007432635TTouch对很多狗友来说，是类似于“玄学”或者“魔法”的领域，很多饲主都对TTouch声称的“疗愈”效果抱持着怀疑的态度，本次直播，我们请到了六只脚的TTouch认证疗愈师王波老师，和“毫无灵性”的两位主播一起聊了聊TTouch到底是什么，能怎么在饲养过程中积极地帮助我们和狗狗建立关系、进行疗愈。在直播后半段，我们还聊了对很多人来说更“玄”的“动物沟通”。动物沟通到底是怎么实现的，以及我们从动物的沟通中收获了什么？我们将一一解答你的疑惑。时间线5：00 TTouch是什么？8：40 TTouch不是玄学，是一种非常基础的和狗相处的方法13：00 简单的TTouch手法：乌龟式19：00 TTouch是用自己的情绪去和狗联结20：10 “一又四分之一圈”的原理23：10 绷带的作用27：13 疼痛问题应该如何用TTouch预防和缓解32：40 对疼痛的问题两个极端的理解，但疼痛最关键的是预防34：31 已经产生的疼痛的管理方法37：10 洛卡疼痛管理的经验38：10 疼痛管理中的筋膜按摩介绍46：10 什么样的狗适合TTouch？52：40 不要哭着做TTouch54：10 TTouch很像“正念”58：30 对于TTouch功效的焦虑63：40 我们要以什么频率做TTouch？66：10 猫可以做TTouch吗？70：10 六只脚8月14日动物沟通的讲座介绍72：55 关于神奇的动物沟通的介绍75：40 动物沟通是玄学吗？81：10 如何验证动物沟通是否靠谱？85：20 那些动物沟通告诉我们的事本次直播中提到的动物沟通讲座相关内容：https://m.weibo.cn/2589535231/4665888320789199
这是一档由犬行为训练师（微博@六只脚尚小欢-KnowYourDogs）和好奇心旺盛的猫狗饲主茶茶（微博@小野是野王）探讨各类关于猫猫狗狗话题的泛科普类对话节目。欢迎点击右上角订阅我们的节目，也欢迎你在评论区告诉我们你的感想和你感兴趣的话题^_^本期节目是六只脚于7月31日在微博上的直播的录音版本，在直播中我们详细聊了TTouch宠物疗愈、疼痛问题和动物沟通。本期飞行嘉宾：王波|六只脚宠物训练师/美国TTouch认证疗愈师（微博@六只脚宠物-王波）由于内容中有一些TTouch手势的模拟，欢迎大家在直播回放中找到相应的内容https://m.weibo.cn/2589535231/4664940918999316以及波波老师还录制了一个专门的疫情期间TTouch指南https://m.weibo.cn/2589535231/4466902007432635TTouch对很多狗友来说，是类似于“玄学”或者“魔法”的领域，很多饲主都对TTouch声称的“疗愈”效果抱持着怀疑的态度，本次直播，我们请到了六只脚的TTouch认证疗愈师王波老师，和“毫无灵性”的两位主播一起聊了聊TTouch到底是什么，能怎么在饲养过程中积极地帮助我们和狗狗建立关系、进行疗愈。在直播后半段，我们还聊了对很多人来说更“玄”的“动物沟通”。动物沟通到底是怎么实现的，以及我们从动物的沟通中收获了什么？我们将一一解答你的疑惑。时间线5：00 TTouch是什么？8：40 TTouch不是玄学，是一种非常基础的和狗相处的方法13：00 简单的TTouch手法：乌龟式19：00 TTouch是用自己的情绪去和狗联结20：10 “一又四分之一圈”的原理23：10 绷带的作用27：13 疼痛问题应该如何用TTouch预防和缓解32：40 对疼痛的问题两个极端的理解，但疼痛最关键的是预防34：31 已经产生的疼痛的管理方法37：10 洛卡疼痛管理的经验38：10 疼痛管理中的筋膜按摩介绍46：10 什么样的狗适合TTouch？52：40 不要哭着做TTouch54：10 TTouch很像“正念”58：30 对于TTouch功效的焦虑63：40 我们要以什么频率做TTouch？66：10 猫可以做TTouch吗？70：10 六只脚8月14日动物沟通的讲座介绍72：55 关于神奇的动物沟通的介绍75：40 动物沟通是玄学吗？81：10 如何验证动物沟通是否靠谱？85：20 那些动物沟通告诉我们的事本次直播中提到的动物沟通讲座相关内容：https://m.weibo.cn/2589535231/4665888320789199
这是一档由犬行为训练师（微博@六只脚尚小欢-KnowYourDogs）和好奇心旺盛的猫狗饲主茶茶（微博@小野是野王）探讨各类关于猫猫狗狗话题的泛科普类对话节目。欢迎点击右上角订阅我们的节目，也欢迎你在评论区告诉我们你的感想和你感兴趣的话题^_^本期节目是六只脚于7月31日在微博上的直播的录音版本，在直播中我们详细聊了TTouch宠物疗愈、疼痛问题和动物沟通。本期飞行嘉宾：王波|六只脚宠物训练师/美国TTouch认证疗愈师（微博@六只脚宠物-王波）由于内容中有一些TTouch手势的模拟，欢迎大家在直播回放中找到相应的内容https://m.weibo.cn/2589535231/4664940918999316以及波波老师还录制了一个专门的疫情期间TTouch指南https://m.weibo.cn/2589535231/4466902007432635TTouch对很多狗友来说，是类似于“玄学”或者“魔法”的领域，很多饲主都对TTouch声称的“疗愈”效果抱持着怀疑的态度，本次直播，我们请到了六只脚的TTouch认证疗愈师王波老师，和“毫无灵性”的两位主播一起聊了聊TTouch到底是什么，能怎么在饲养过程中积极地帮助我们和狗狗建立关系、进行疗愈。在直播后半段，我们还聊了对很多人来说更“玄”的“动物沟通”。动物沟通到底是怎么实现的，以及我们从动物的沟通中收获了什么？我们将一一解答你的疑惑。时间线5：00 TTouch是什么？8：40 TTouch不是玄学，是一种非常基础的和狗相处的方法13：00 简单的TTouch手法：乌龟式19：00 TTouch是用自己的情绪去和狗联结20：10 “一又四分之一圈”的原理23：10 绷带的作用27：13 疼痛问题应该如何用TTouch预防和缓解32：40 对疼痛的问题两个极端的理解，但疼痛最关键的是预防34：31 已经产生的疼痛的管理方法37：10 洛卡疼痛管理的经验38：10 疼痛管理中的筋膜按摩介绍46：10 什么样的狗适合TTouch？52：40 不要哭着做TTouch54：10 TTouch很像“正念”58：30 对于TTouch功效的焦虑63：40 我们要以什么频率做TTouch？66：10 猫可以做TTouch吗？70：10 六只脚8月14日动物沟通的讲座介绍72：55 关于神奇的动物沟通的介绍75：40 动物沟通是玄学吗？81：10 如何验证动物沟通是否靠谱？85：20 那些动物沟通告诉我们的事本次直播中提到的动物沟通讲座相关内容：https://m.weibo.cn/2589535231/4665888320789199
Ich möchte diesmal mit einem großem Dankeschön beginnen. Danke für die riesengroße Ressonanz auf die letzte Auf Trab-Folge „Gefährliche Oktoberweiden". Mit 22.000 Reaktionen auf Facebook, mehreren hundert Aufrufen auf Youtube und Podcast-Plattformen habe ich bei dem Thema doch nicht gerechnet. Dass mein Vorschlag, einen Refraktometer für die Zuckerbestimmung im Weidegras einzusetzen, solche kontroversiellen Diskussionen auslösen würde. Jetzt aber zu unserem Gast der jüngsten Auf Trab-Folge. Es ist Martin Lasser. Der diplomierte Krankenpfleger ist lizensierter Vielseitigkeits-Trainer und Reitlehrer und lizensierter Tellington Practioner 3 und Obmann des Tellington-Jones Vereins in Österreicher. Martin habe ich zu Linda Tellington-Jones Botschaft, über das Prinzip, die Wirkung und Ausführung ihrer weltberühmten TTouchs gerfragt. Das sind kreisende, hebende, gleitende Berührungen. Sie sollen nicht nur eine besondere Verbindung zwischen Vier- und Zweibeiner aufbauen. Mit TTouchs kann man Pferde beruhigen, dem Pferd Ängste, Spannungen und Schmerzen nehmen und das Selbstvertrauen des Pferdes sowie sein Vertrauen zum Menschen stärken. Negative und unerwünschte Verhaltensmuster sollen mit TTouch dauerhaft verändert und ausgelöscht werden können, weil TTouch auf das Gehirn wirken sollen und so die Pferde weniger instinktgesteuert reagieren lassen soll. Soweit die Theorie, aber lassen wir doch den Praktiker Martin Lasser in dieser Folge zu Wort kommen. Mehr zu ihm unter anderem auf www.tellington.at Ich kann Euch außerdem das kleine Taschenbuch von Linda Tellington empfehlen „Basis TTouches für Pferde", mit 20 TTouchs, ihre Anwendungen sowie den Anleitungen zu den wichtigsten Berührungen. Gutes Gelingen Viel Spaß mit Auf Trab wünschen Julia und ihre Welshies. Musik- und Soundrechte: https://auftrab.eu/index.php/musik-und-soundrechte/ #Tellington-Jones #TTouch #Martin_Lasser #Wolkenleopard Fotos Martin Lasser
Dr Matt Muir is an Intergrative Clinician and Director at All Natural Vet Care in Russell Lea in Sydney's Inner West. Matt studied Veterinary Medicine at Charles Sturt in Wagga Wagga and hails from the Riverina of NSW. In our conversation we discuss his ability to harness the best of both worlds to bring the best options to preventative health for his clients and their Guardians. After graduation, Matt continued to study Traditional Chinese Medicine along with Chinese Food Medicine and Western Herbal Medicine.Matt uses various therapies in his consultations, including massage and TTouch. References:Gut microbiome structure and adrenocortical activity in dogs with aggressive and phobic behavioral disordersThe Role of the Canine Gut Microbiome and Metbolome in Health and Gastrointestinal DiseaseConnecting dysbiosis, bile-acid dysmetabolism and gut inflammation in inflammatory bowel diseasesPrevalence of Canine Obesity-Related Metabolic Dysfunction, and Relationship with Owner Obesity in an Obesogenic Region of Spainhttps://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2017.44Anticancer effects of the microbiome and its productsElevated serum neurotensin and CRH levels in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and tail-chasing in Bull Terriers with a phenotype similar to Autism The Effect of Early Diet on Canine Atopic Dermatitis (CAD) in Three High-Risk BreedsGut Microbiota: Implications in Parkinson's diseaseTo contact Dr Matt Muir Hey, thanks for listening to the Canine Ed Podcast! You can find more about Canine Ed through our website or check in with us on Facebook and InstagramCanine Ed is dedicated to bringing great training for people and their dogs to the community. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review, so you can help share the news!Important Note: It's FREE to subscribe to the Canine Ed Podcast! New to podcasts? The basic concept is like listening to a radio channel where you get to select the topic! Instead of listening to music you don't like or getting worn down by talk radio, you can binge on Canine Ed episodes. You can even pause, rewind and even share your leisure! There are several online platforms where you can access The Canine Ed Podcast. My suggestion – go with the old trusty standby, iTunes. This app comes preinstalled on most iPhones and iPads. If you have an Apple iphone, follow these steps next to subscribe/download the podcast. Step 1. Click the Podcasts app and then click the magnifying glass in the bottom-right corner to Search. Step 2. Type “The Canine Ed Podcast” in the search bar at the top. Step 3. From ...
In this Podcast Episode we have the world-famous Linda Tellington Jones as a guest. She is well known for her Tellington TTouch Method, which is also scientifically proven. Linda speaks with us about her view and beliefs about horses and how her famous TTouch can improve the well-being and performance of every horse. As the TTouch Method can bring your horse in a mental, physical and emotional balance. She also explains how each TTouch works and how the method can be perfectly integrated into everyday life.
Linda Tellington-Jones, creator of TTouch, studied with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais in the 70's. Wendy first met Linda in 1985 a year after a serious riding accident. Six years ago Linda saw SURE FOOT for the first time. The TTouch and SURE FOOT have a philosophical root in the understanding based on the ideas fostered from Dr. Feldenkrais. In this webinar Wendy and Linda share their thoughts on SURE FOOT.
WE ARE BACK BOOKSHELVERS! Corrin and Steve have been swaning (pun intended) around in Swanage for a week and are now back refreshed and ready for another "Off The Shelf" This time Nat, Corrin and Steve talk to the wonderful Gemma Hodson all about her passion in canine behaviour and movement. This is an often overlooked part of the whole behaviour picture and we think you'll find our talk really eye opening. As well as all the the dog geek outs you'd expect we also talk a whole lot about cheesecakes1, how Steve once had crabs (no not like that) and why Corrin and Nat are now required by podcast law to be present on the intros. Take a deep breath and delve on in! Gemma Facts Gemma has lived a life with dogs of various breeds growing up in a house full of show dogs, but initially studied at Hartpury College for a career with horses going on to work at show jumping and event yards along with hydrotherapy centres. In the early 2000’s she started growing an interest in how pain affects movement & behaviour after one of her own horses developed gastric ulcers, this then became an obsession when returning to her love of dogs and attending dog classes could see dogs from an early age already experiencing difficulties. Wanting to expand on her observational skills she trained with Sarah Fisher doing TTouch & ACE, before deepening her knowledge of canine anatomy, physiology & movement alongside massage and rehabilitation with ICAT & the OCN in London & is a qualified behaviour practitioner with the ISCP. Gemma combines her passion for canine behaviour and movement to help dog guardians get to the bottom of their dog’s problematic behaviours using gait & posture analysis to shine a light on potential issues, she is often called in by other canine professionals to work with their clients for additional support and advice. More recently Gemma has launched her Dynamic Dog Practitioner Programme where she teaches other dog trainers and behaviourist to spot the signs of discomfort in dogs that are linked to behaviour problems, and has been ask to be a Canine Arthritis Management Advisor by the founder of CAM, Hannah Capon.
Debby Potts have been teaching TTouch for over 30 years. She is also a 4 HOOF SURE FOOT Practitioner. Listen to how Debby found SURE FOOT (a horse of course sent her to the first training with Linda Tellington-Jones) and Wendy has known Debby since 1986. Learn more about SURE FOOT and the Practitioners levels in this webinar.
We welcome back Dr Matthew Muir for Part B of our discussion about mind body veterinary medicine. In this second part of our series, we discuss: Manipulating the gut-brain axis through diet and Dr Muir's "ideal meal" Emerging evidence for the influence of the microbiome on the mental health of dogs Considering elimination and provocation diets to understand which foods are possibly influencing mental health and behaviour Herbal medicine and its role in treatment plans, including managing GIT disease and mental ill health A deeper dive into the merits of Withania somnifera and Reishi mushroom extract Translational research and its potential to "save humanity" Sleep hygiene The practical applications of TTouch and massage in general Resources mentioned in this episode are listed and linked to below: Wernimont et al. 2020. The Effects of Nutrition on the Gastrointestinal Microbiome of Cats and Dogs: Impact on Health and Disease https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32670224/ Mondo et al. 2020. Gut microbiome structure and adrenocortical activity in dogs with aggressive and phobic behavioral disorders https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32021942/ Kirchoff et al. 2019. The gut microbiome correlates with conspecific aggression in a small population of rescued dogs (Canis familiaris)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30643689/ Craig. 2016. Atopic dermatitis and the intestinal microbiota in humans and dogs https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29067183/ Mondo et al. 2019. Role of gut microbiota in dog and cat's health and diseases https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31998619/ Costantini et al. 2017. Impact of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on the Gut Microbiota https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29215589/ Chang et al. 2015. Ganoderma lucidum reduces obesity in mice by modulating the composition of the gut microbiota https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26102296/ Yuan et al. 2020. An Integrated Pharmacology-Based Analysis for Antidepressant Mechanism of Chinese Herbal Formula Xiao-Yao-San https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32256358/ Liao et al. 2018. A preliminary review of studies on adaptogens: comparison of their bioactivity in TCM with that of ginseng-like herbs used worldwide https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30479654/ Panossian. 2017. Understanding adaptogenic activity: specificity of the pharmacological action of adaptogens and other phytochemicals https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28640972/ Andrade et al. 2000. A double-blind, placebo-controlled evaluation of the anxiolytic efficacy ff an ethanolic extract of withania somnifera https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21407960/ Yenisetti, Manjunath & Muralidhara. 2016. Neuropharmacological Properties of Withania somnifera - Indian Ginseng: An Overview on Experimental Evidence with Emphasis on Clinical Trials and Patents https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27316579/ Singh & Ramassamy. 2017. In vitro screening of neuroprotective activity of Indian medicinal plant Withania somnifera https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29152258/ Texas A&M Canine Microbiota Dysbiosis Index https://vetmed.tamu.edu/gilab/service/assays/canine-microbiota-dysbiosis-index/ Vanoli et al. 1991. Vagal stimulation and prevention of sudden death in conscious dogs with a healed myocardial infarction https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2019002/ Ohemeng & Parham. 2020. Vagal Nerve Stimulation: Indications, Implantation, and Outcomes https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31685239/ Spotifiy: Through a Dog's Ear playlist https://open.spotify.com/artist/1MsgeM3kAiAt5NTnasaIh1#:~:text=Popular&text=%22Through%20a%20Dog's%20Ear%22%20is,have%20been%20created%20since%202003. Karen Overall's relaxation protocol https://journeydogtraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ProtocolforRelaxation.pdf LuckyDog Acupressure http://www.luckydoghealth.com/dogacupressurechart.htm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Born and raised in Nebraska, I graduated from vet school at Iowa State University. Following graduation I headed west To southwest Utah where I heard about the likes of Linda Tellington Jones and Dr. Kerry Ridgway. I landed in Colorado after a stint in Montana and meeting Linda and Kerry there. I have practiced in Colorado for 27 years. I had always had an interest in acupuncture, but when it did so much for my own health I needed to offer it to my patients. From there I have been fascinated on how bodies can heal. I became acupuncture certified in 2002 and eventually obtained my Master's in Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine In 2019. Laser, herbal therapy, food therapy, craniosacral, Ttouch, ozone and now Surefoot are other therapies I incorporate in my practice.
Robyn Hood, TTouch® Trainer an long time friend of Wendy Murdoch talks about using body wraps to help horses with body awareness and how you can combine body wraps with SURE FOOT Equine Pads.
This week on Energy Matters, Caroline welcomes Sally Morgan, a holistic physical therapist for pets and people. Sally has been practicing the Tellington Touch or TTouch method on animals for over 30 years, and she's here to teach us a few tricks to support the animals in our lives. Sally reminds us that animals are our teachers and recognizes that animals understand more than we are often ready to acknowledge. Tune in for a great episode!
Wendy went to Robyn's Icelandic Horse Farm in July 2019 and worked with several horses as case studies for SURE FOOT. In this webinar we talk about Bob and OTTB who made tremendous changes in 3 sessions.
Marta Mannelová je jedinou TTouch trenérkou v ČR a tak jsem si k tomuhle tématu vlastně nemohla přizvat nikoho povolanějšího. Co se tentokrát dozvíte?co je to vůbec Tellington TTouch a kdy se používájak vypadají jednotlivé technikyjaký je rozdíl mezi bandážemi, doteky a vodícími technikamijaký je rozdíl mezi shapingem a luringem a co to vlastně je jaké chyby se nejčastěji dělají v uvazování zklidňující bandáže, kterou řada lidí používá např. na silvestra jak funguje vzdělávání v Tellington TTouch a proč Marta jezdí často do zahraničíOdkazy na knížky a stránky, které zmiňujeme v podcastu: TKniha Tellington TTouchFacebook @ttouchdotekyczwww.ttouch.czJestli vás zajímá víc podobných příspěvků, článků a tipů do života se psem, budu se na vás těšit na www.pejskarium.cz! Podcast můžete v aplikaci Apple podcasts během pár vteřin ohodnotit a dát mi tak zpětnou vazbu, zda se vám rozhovory líbí.
Soul Soil: Where Agriculture and Spirit Intersect with Brooke Kornegay
In part 2 of this series, Vail opens up about new ways to approach business, our relationship with ourselves, and seeing the world through a holistic lens and how that opens up possibilities unavailable to the linear cause-and-effect thinking of scientific logic. Vail Dixon is a regenerative farmer and holistic grazing mentor. Founder of Simple Soil Solutions, Grazing Power and ABC Beef, Vail grew up working on farms, climbing mountains and enjoying nature. While training to represent her country in the Olympics, a life threatening accident gave Vail an opportunity to experience healing through healthy food and natural methods – even when doctors told her it was impossible. This deeper understanding of our food and farming systems instilled in Vail a passion for healing our soils as a way to rejuvenate our ecology, economy and health. Vail conducts research on how humans affect the soil biology and how that impacts productivity. Learning about ways to repair damaged soil biologically led Vail to understand how animals and humans play a vital role in soil regeneration. Vail is passionate about joining with Nature to heal the land, our economy and ourselves. Besides farming full time, she connects with open-minded farmers who want to become successful adaptive managers and create abundance on their land. To this end she is building a Holistic grazing mentorship program called Grazing Power, on-farm Grow Your Soil workshops, and Living Soils biological soil-building mentorship program. In this episode... A new (or...ancient) perspective on the role of humans in natural systems Holistic business management How Vail's work lines up with the work of the Bionutrient Food Association Vail's Four Season mentorship program Working to craft a business that feels more like a human relationship than a transaction Transcending the limitations of present-day science by embracing cellular potential and healing ability How doing business differently, relating to ourselves differently...using our energy and time more intentionally...will transcend science's projection of the Earth's ability to heal The current ecological and humanitarian crises are inviting us to tap into the human potential, into why we are here Tips and tricks for moving energy around when we feel stuck Resources simplesoilsolutions.com Leadership Co. Bionutrient Food Association (see episode 001, Dan Kittredge) TTouch with Dr. Linda Tellington-Jones The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World by Brian Robertson Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen Holistic Management: a Commonsense Revolution to Restore our Environment by Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing; Advanced Energy Anatomy: The Science of Co-Creation and Your Power of Choice; Entering the Castle: Finding the Inner Path to God and Your Soul's Purpose by Carolyn Myss The Five Roles of a Master Herder: A Revolutionary Model for Socially Intelligent Leadership by Linda Kohanov
Watch On YouTube: https://youtu.be/qChWERhHFzA Linda Tellington-Jones, Ph.D. (HON) is the creator of the renowned Tellington TTouch method. Developed over four decades ago, Tellington TTouch has provided a positive, effective and gentle means of helping animals with common behavioral and physical problems that you can start doing immediately in your own home. Learn why veterinarian's around the world recommend TTouch for their patients and how TTouch can dramatically improve your pets' well being: Improve digestive, respiratory, and overall physical and emotional health Connect animals into their body instead of reacting to triggers Learn to deal with stress by relaxing Reduce fear, pain and bring an animal out of shock Enhance cellular function and communication and support the healing potential of the body Find out how to treat animals like they understand to behavior better TTouch has been taught worldwide and is one of the most broadly-recognized methods of improving behavior, enhancing performance and health, and teaching animals to learn willingly. https://intuitivetouchanimalcare.com/
When you're a horse geek, it doesn't get much more cool than this! For this episode I was joined by Robyn Hood and Sinead McCann of the Tellington Touch Method. We got into the misconceptions around this work, and how TTouch can be successfully applied to everything with horses, including starting young horses, re-starting horses who need a loving trauma-releasing approach to find their trust and confidence, and resetting the nervous system, including balance and proprioception. It was such a pleasure to be able to learn from these two incredible and dedicated women. Enjoy! Robyn Hood, who also happens to be Linda Tellington-Jones sister, has worked with Linda since 1965. She teaches training workshops, seminars and clinics all over North America, Australia and Europe. Robyn has been an integral part of developing the teaching program. In addition to running the Tellington Training Canada office, she also serves as the editor of TTEAM Connections Newsletter, which she has done since 1982. Robyn, her husband Phil Pretty and their two children live in Vernon, BC where they import and breed Icelandic horses. Their farm is home to about 130 Icelandic horses as well as two dogs, several cats, turtles and a parrot. Learn more about Robyn and TTouch at https://ttouch.ca/ Sinead McCann is a qualified equine practitioner in Australia who provides individual holistic sessions for horses combining non-invasive therapies including Tellington TTouch Method, Reiki, Essential Oils, Energy Balancing, Equine Cranial Sacral Therapy and more. Learn more about her work at www.facebook.com/boyneequine
Linda’s photo courtesy of Gabriele BoisellePlease note that this interview was recorded with Linda from her home in beautiful Hawaii. You might hear lots of birds in the background that we were unable to completely edit out.Linda, what is TTouch® and could you share the story with us of how it came to be?What are the benefits?And there have been Studies and research about the effectiveness of your Method and principles right?How does TTouch® work specifically in dogs?And if we do TTouch® with our dogs, what benefits are there for us?I would love it if you could share some success stories. I know that you told me about the terrier who for her whole life wouldn’t let anyone touch her…As a teacher, trainer and author, Linda Tellington-Jones has created a highly effective and revolutionary approach to working with animals by developing the Tellington TTouch Method®. Beginning in the equestrian world, her method has also proven highly effective for dogs and other companion animals.Linda has written twenty-two books about Tellington TTouch® which have been printed in sixteen languages. Her book, Getting in TTouch® with Your Dog: A Gentle Approach to Influencing Behavior, Health, and Performance is published in eight languages including most recently in Korean.There are certified Practitioners teaching the Tellington Method for dogs in more than 30 countries.Linda lives in Hawaii with her husband, Roland Kleger, and still teaches around the world eight months each year.Freedom No-Pull HarnessMolecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body MedicineMORE ABOUT LINDA AND THE TTOUCH® METHOD:https://ttouch.com/https://www.ttouchforyouonline.com/immersion-series/https://www.facebook.com/groups/tellingtonttouchcommunity/https://www.facebook.com/LindaTTellingtonJones/https://www.facebook.com/TellingtonTTouchWorld/
Wywiad przeprowadzony ze mną przez Magdalenę Rorbach w Warszawie 2018.
Jak TTouch pomógł w transformacji małej pinczerki, z którą pracowałam z użyciem metody TTouch :)
W tym epizodzie rozmawiam z moją mentorką, Jyl Hershman-Ross o jej doświadczeniach z TTouch.
W tym odcinku rozmawiam z Lison, z którą pracowałam nad problemem zachowań reaktywnych jej psa, Juniora, względem szybko poruszających się pojazdów przy wykorzystaniu metody TTouch.
Opowiadam czym jest TTouch :)
Opowiadam jak prawidłowo wykonać podstawowy ruch TTouch na swoim psie :)
Moje przemyślenia o tym, jak TTouch pomaga mi w stawaniu się lepszym człowiekiem :)
Podcast 1 "Lęk separacyjny":- czym jest lęk separacyjny /lęk przed samotnością u psów;- jak rozpoznać lęk separacyjny? - czym lęk separacyjny różni się od nudy?- skąd się bierze lęk separacyjny? możliwe źródła problemu;- czy wszystkie psy adoptowane ze schroniska cierpią na lęk separacyjny?- postrzeganie czasu przez psy - rutyna i przewidywalność w życiu psa jako wsparcie w walce z problemem;- Lepiej zapobiegać, niż leczyć! Jak przygotować psa do pierwszych rozstań z właścicielem;- Emocje człowieka w pracy nad problemem lęku separacyjnego u psa;- zabawki interaktywne - niezbędny element w pracy z psem;- odpowiednia dawka ruchu, treningi, zabawy węchowe i praca umysłowa dla psa - jako podstawowe zalecenia w leczeniu lęku separacyjnego;- przygotowanie pomieszczenia dla psa przed wyjściem z domu;- trening niezależności;- odczarowanie/odczulanie wyjścia właściciela;- trening samotności;- dodatkowe możliwości w pracy z psem, cierpiącym na lęk separacyjny: klatka kennelowa, stosowanie wsparcia farmakologicznego (po konsultacji z weterynarzem-behawiorystą), olejki eteryczne, krople Bacha, metoda TTouch (masaż i ćwiczenia ruchowe), kamizelki przeciwlękowe.Należy jednak pamiętać, że żadne specyfiki nie zadziałają bez zastosowania programu modyfikacji zachowań psa. -
Ljudje od živali zahtevamo, da nas razumejo, mi pa se ne trudimo, da bi razumeli njih, pravi Darja Žnidaršič, sicer medicinska sestra, pa tudi terapevtka TTouch in učiteljica za pse. In nadaljuje, da šele ko nekaj spoznaš, veš, kako s tem ravnati. Nič drugače ni pri naravi in živalih. Ko jih razumeš, jih začneš varovati sam od sebe, brez zakonov in prepovedi. Ena od metod, kako se jim približati in z njimi navezati stik, je tudi dotik. Nadgradnja dotika pa je metoda Tellington TTouch, neverbalna komunikacija, ki spodbuja povezanost med dvema živima bitjema. Metodo je razvila Linda Tellington-Jones, ki ji marsikdo reče kar šepetalka konjem. Osnov masaže se je naučila od dedka, ki je v Rusiji dresiral dirkalne konje, sam pa se je metode naučil od ruskih ciganov. Linda, ki je s svojim načinom dela z živalmi pomagala tudi orki Keiku iz filma Free Willy in številnim drugim divjim živalim, od slonov do snežnih leopardov, je bila gostja na Svetovnem kongresu Ambasadorjev živali in narave na Rogli.
Ihr Wissen mit anderen teilen und nicht für sich behalten - das ist die Philosophie von Linda Tellington-Jones. Im Interview mit Christian Kröber spricht die 80-Jährige über ihre eigens entwickelte und weltweit anerkannte TTouch-Methode. Seit Jahrzehnten verbreitet sie ihr Wissen über die TTouches und möchte damit nicht nur das Wohlbefinden und die Leistung von Pferden verbessern, sondern auch Reiter und Pferde näher zusammenzubringen. Im Podcast gibt Linda dir Einblicke in ihr Leben, in Schlüsselmomente auf dem Weg zur TTouch-Methode und in ihre Sichtweisen und Glaubenssätze rund um das Thema Pferd. Sie erklärt den wissenschaftlichen Hintergrund der TTouch-Methode und berichtet von spannenden Studien-Beispielen. Hör dir an, was TTouch für dich und dein Pferd bewirken kann und wie die Methode hilft, euch in eine mentale, physikalische und emotionale Balance zu bringen. Linda ist eine Pferdefrau durch und durch - lass dich von ihrer Erfahrung und ihrer Begeisterung inspirieren. Du lernst von ihr: - was TTouches sind und was die TTouch-Methode für dich und dein Pferd bewirken kann - inwiefern wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse die Wirkung der TTouch-Methode belegen - wie du mit TTouches die Leistung und das Wohlbefinden deines Pferdes steigern kannst Was ist die TTouch-Methode genau? (01:31) Was ist der TTouch genau, verglichen zu den anderen drei Aspekten, die die Methode ausmachen? (02:35) Wie bist du zu der TTouch-Methode gekommen und wie hast du herausgefunden, dass es eine andere Möglichkeit gibt, Pferde zu behandeln, so dass es einen echten Unterschied macht? (04:13) Es gibt einen starken wissenschaftlichen Hintergrund zur TTouch-Methode, anders als bei anderen Methoden. Wie kam es zu dieser Forschung und zu diesen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen? (06:25) Was waren deine Schlüsselerkenntnisse aus der Forschung, die du in deine Methode hast einfließen lassen? (08:20) Wie können Reiter und Pferdefreunde die TTouches und die TTouch-Methode in ihren Alltag mit ihrem Pferd integrieren? (10:23) Wie kann aus deiner Sicht das Putzen des Pferdes verbessert werden und inwiefern beziehen sich die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse auf dieses Thema? (14:21) Bei den TTouches sprichst du immer von einem "Eineinviertel-Kreis". Warum ist es "eineinviertel" und nicht zum Beispiel "dreidreiviertel"? (17:10) Es gibt aber auch Unterschiede in der Druckstärke bei den TTouches, oder? (19:23) Warum gibt es einen Unterschied zwischen Stärke 2 und 9 und wie legst du fest, welche Druckstärke du für welches Pferd anwendest? (20:15) Das Konzept unterliegt dem größeren Grundgedanken, dass alle Zellen untereinander verbunden sind? (22:00) Kann man mit der TTouch-Methode auch die Leistung eines Pferdes steigern? (23:07) Und auch du selbst, als du damals die Methode praktiziert hast, warst danach erfolgreicher als vorher, oder? (24:14) Die vier klassischen Fragen des wehorse-Podcasts (25:47) Viel Spaß mit dieser Podcast-Folge! Alle Links zu dieser Folge: Filme auf www.wehorse.com: Tellington TTouch-Training für Pferde: Die Philosophie http://www.wehorse.com/de/videos/show/426/tellington-ttouch-training-fuer-pferde-die-philosophie-linda-tellington-jones.html Tellington TTouch-Training für Pferde: So funktionieren die kreisenden TTouches http://www.wehorse.com/de/videos/show/435/tellington-ttouch-training-fuer-pferde-so-funktionieren-die-kreisenden-ttouches-linda-tellington-jones.html Tellington TTouch-Training für Pferde: Pferdekörper erforschen http://www.wehorse.com/de/videos/show/441/tellington-ttouch-training-fuer-pferde-den-pferdekoerper-erforschen-linda-tellington-jones.html Tellington TTouch-Training für Pferde: TTouches an den Ohren http://www.wehorse.com/de/videos/show/445/tellington-ttouch-training-fuer-pferde-ttouches-an-den-ohren-linda-tellington-jones.html Folge wehorse auf Facebook, Instagram, YouTube und Twitter und erfahre alle Neuigkeiten immer sofort.
SUMMARY: For our one year anniversary we're releasing a special edition of the podcast... a compilation of some of the most popular clips from the year in an extra long bonus episode. I hope you enjoy! TRANSCRIPTION: Melissa Breau: This is Melissa Breau and you're listening to the Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy, an online school dedicated to providing high-quality instruction for competitive dog sports using only the most current and progressive training methods. Today I'm here with Teri Martin -- for those of you who don't know her, Teri is Denise's right hand woman; she handles setting up the classes for all of you each session, plays tech support, and is the main organizer for camp each year. Teri and I will be doing something a little different this episode… roughly a year ago today, December 23rd, I launched our very first episode, which was an interview with Denise Fenzi. To celebrate our anniversary, today we're going to reshare some of the more memorable moments from the last year. But before we dive into that, Teri is here with me to talk a little about the plans for FDSA Training Camp 2018. Welcome to the podcast Teri! Excited to have you co-hosting this special episode with me. Teri Martin: Thanks, Melissa. Happy to be here. Melissa Breau: Alright, to start us out, do you want to just remind everyone when and where camp is going to be next year? Teri Martin: Camp is going to be June 1st to 3rd, that's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and it's going to be at the Roberts Centre/Eukanuba Hall in Wilmington, Ohio. I'm super excited about the venue. It's going to have six different rings running and it's going to be amazing. Melissa Breau: I'm super excited because it's the first year that it's been close enough that I can drive, so I can bring a working dog, and I have a puppy, so can't beat that. Teri Martin: Cool. Melissa Breau: How does registration work? I know it's a little complicated and people tend to ask questions. Teri Martin: Working spot registration is complicated. The regular stuff isn't. Working spot are given priority registration, so there are two phases for those. The first one is Phase 1, and it's going to open on January 8th at 9 a.m. Pacific Time. If you have eight or more courses at any level in FDSA, you will get an invitation to register for that phase. After that, we have Phase 2, which is for people who have four or more courses at any level. That will start January 10th. And then after that we open it to everybody. I should add that auditing is also available and you don't need to register super early for that, but we do suggest you do at least fairly soon, but it's not going to be the same as the demand for the working spots. Melissa Breau: Can they start registering for that on the 8th, did you say? Teri Martin: If you're eight or more, then it will start on the 8th, and if you're four or more it starts on the 2nd. And then general registration opens on the 15th. Melissa Breau: Gotcha. Where do people go for the official schedule and all the additional information that you've got out? Teri Martin: Go to the FDSA website and it's up on there under “More FDSA Education.” You will see a link for the training camp and all the information is there. Melissa Breau: All right, last one -- what is your favorite thing about camp? Teri Martin: Oh, so many things. For so many of us it's getting to see all these people that we feel that we've formed these friendships with, and it's just like you're greeting an old friend that you haven't seen for so long. And those instructors are exactly the same way as they appear when they're giving you advice. They're friendly and warm and funny and fabulous. So it's just the sense of bringing that whole community together in real life and getting all inspired to go home and train your dog. Melissa Breau: Awesome. I'm so looking forward to it. It's been an amazing experience the last few years being able to attend as a volunteer, and so I'm totally looking forward to seeing things from the other side! Teri Martin: We're going to miss having you as a volunteer, though. Melissa Breau: I'll be back next year. Do you want to introduce our first clip, or should I? Teri Martin: (something about the question I asked that led to this -- how Denise's training philosophy has influenced other aspects of her life -- maybe “First up is that first episode, an interview with Denise, from when you asked her…” ). I think it's pretty appropriate that we start with our fearless leader Denise. I think you had a question in the very first episode where you asked her how her training philosophy has influenced other aspects in her life, and for me that just totally sets the ground for how this whole wonderful school and the sense of community that surrounds it has come to be. Melissa Breau: Excellent. Let's play that clip. --- Denise Fenzi: It's been probably the most significant thing that's happened in my entire life. When I changed how I trained dogs, you have to be pretty obtuse not to recognize that we all learn the same way. And if you're a positive trainer with dogs and you really emphasize catching what they do right and ignoring what they do wrong, I mean, you really have to choose not to think about it, to realize that exactly the same thing is true with people. So for example both of my kids have very good manners, and I know how that came about in part. One thing is, I'm simply a respectful person and I encourage that. But I remember our first outings to restaurants when they were smaller, and if they said they would order for themselves, and they would say please and show nice manners, the second that person would walk away from the table I would say to my husband who'd be there, “I am so proud that we have kids who are so respectful and have such good manners. It makes me happy to go places with them.” And you could almost see the difference the next time that opportunity came up again, you could almost see them go just a little bit further with their good manners. And it's not something I comment on any more, because they're older, they're 12 and 16, but they do it by habit. And I know that some part of their brain is always aware of it. So I've never said to them “Say please, say thank you,” I don't tell them what to do, but when it happens I really work to catch those moments and acknowledge them. And I think dog training is a lot easier than child training, that's just my perspective. But I try to work with that, and I try not to think in terms of getting my kids to go to school and do well because I've restricted the rest of their lives, and I try to think in terms of balance and cooperation. Of course with people you can talk things out more. But at the end of the day if you're having any kind of conflict with another person, whether it's a family member or some random person you see on the street, the question I ask myself now is, do I want to feel better or do I want to change behavior? So if I want to feel better I may well behave badly, I may yell. I do yell, by the way. I do yell at my children, I do yell at my dogs. I know some people say, “That's amazing you do, you're not supposed to do that.” Well that's great, I'm glad you're all there. I'm not, so I will yell, “Get off the couch,” or whatever. I'm not really training, I'm expressing my upsetness. So that's, do I want to feel better? Yes, so I'm going to yell. Or somebody irritates me on the street because their dog runs up to mine and is off-leash, and so maybe I'm having a particularly bad day, and I might respond inappropriately. But then the second question is, do I want to change behavior? And I think recognizing that those are different things is really important because never, ever, ever am I yelling if I want to change behavior, and never am I talking to somebody like they're dumb, or ignorant, or anything, because it's all perspective, because they just have a different perspective. So maybe they don't understand that their off-leash dog running up to my old dog is a problem. And the reason it's a problem is, my dog is old and she doesn't like other dogs jumping on her. And I've had much better luck saying, “I know your dog is friendly, but my dog is very old and she has a lot of arthritis. And when your dog comes up like that it really scares her, and it hurts her.” And when I say that, without fail they apologize and they put their dogs on a leash. And I smile, I'm not angry. I might be inside, but I don't show it. The next time I see them we continue with a pleasant set of interactions. And that kind of thinking, do I want to feel better or do I want to change behavior, has been really quite impactful, whether in my family or with people. We often talk about with our dogs, sometimes dog trainers are a lot nicer to their dogs than people. I find that very incongruent, and I don't like to live my life that way. I like my life to make sense. And I think we need to be very aware of not only how we treat our pets but show that same courtesy to each other, and I find that from there I am a happier person. Because when you are kind with people instead of getting your emotions from stewing in your, "oh my God, I can't believe how stupid that person is," that I understand that we take pleasure in those periods of time when we feel superior to other people, because I guess that's where that comes from, I understand that. But it is a short-lived and negative form of emotion, and in the long run it leaves you feeling worse about the world. Whereas when you take the time to think about things from somebody else's point of view, I find that that leads to an understanding, and honestly it makes my life a lot better. It makes me a more pleasant and happy person, so that has a lot of value. --- Melissa Breau: I think that one has really stuck with me. I think it's really influenced what FDSA is and how it works, too. Teri Martin: A little-known fun fact about all of that: As you know, we have a really active Facebook group that's been so much of this community, and that started way back in November 2013, which was maybe two sessions in. There was a group of us that had taken both of these courses and were totally all excited about the FDSA thing and wanted to start a Facebook group. So I pushed Denise about it, and she was like, “Oh, you know, I've had so many bad experiences with groups. People get really nasty and mean, and I just don't want to have that. Well, you guys can go ahead, if that's what you want to do, but I don't want to be part of it.” and then she comes back about a week later and she says, “You know what, I thought it over and I think this is actually a pretty good thing, so let's go for it.” And from there on, the rest is history. Melissa Breau: Yeah, think about how big a part that plays in the community today. It's huge. Teri Martin: Yes. And another fun fact is she has to be really nice to me, because I can actually kick her out of the group because I'm the original founder. Melissa Breau: That's funny. Since you brought up the early days, for our next clip let's use the clip I have from Amy Cook, where she shares how she became one of the first instructors here at FDSA. --- Melissa Breau: So I wanted to ask you too about the early days of FDSA because I believe, I think you actually told me that you were one of the first teachers that Denise brought on at Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. So I was really curious to get some of your impressions on how you think it's changed and kind of what happened when she initially approached you. Amy Cook: Oh, boy. You know, it was standing in the right place at the right time, I swear. You know, she had taught online elsewhere and decided to do this endeavor, and I was just…I'm pretty sure I was just finishing grad school and saying, well, I guess I'm going back to dog training. I wasn't sure what I had in store, I'll just revamp or ramp up my business again, fine. And I can remember, I was standing near a freezer in her garage and I can't exactly remember how it came up but she said, “We have a behavior arm, could you teach what you teach, teach a class in what you do?” Boy, I felt…the answer was both yes and no. The answer is no because I've never done that, but the answer is yes because well, it has to be possible, right? Sure. I'll certainly try it. I really wanted to do something like that. But for a second there I was like, really? Behavior? Behavior, though. I mean, behavior. It's complicated. People are all over the place. Dogs are behaving all over the place. It's a lot to…how will I do this online? But I had faith. She really had vision early on for how this was going to go and we brainstormed, I was really excited about it. She actually came up with the title of the class, Dealing with the Bogeyman, that's hers. She's like, let's call it that. I was like, sure. It was exciting. It was exciting times and I was really just like, well, I'm happy to run a class and see what I can do for people. If it's something I don't feel is resulting in improvements that are reasonable for the dogs I'm helping then it's not right, then online is more suited for skill-based stuff and not so much the concepts or the complicated behaviors. I shouldn't have been afraid because it's been amazing. --- Teri Martin: It's just so cool how all this online stuff works. There was a conversation elsewhere about this with Amy where she said she couldn't believe how much her online students progressed. They get to digest all their information on their own time frame, they get their feedback quickly, they can take the time to set up the scenarios properly so they don't get dogs overwhelmed, and can ask daily questions of the instructor. That's just so more efficient than meeting once every two weeks. So it's really a great way to work behaviour stuff. Melissa Breau: I think that was on her blog, where she wrote about the impact of online training. Teri Martin: I know it's come up a few times, so it very well could be in her blog. Melissa Breau: Not only is it an awesome way for people to train where they can set up scenarios and whatnot, but because it's online, it lets our students learn from some of the best trainers in the world, no matter where they live, it gives them access to these training concepts that maybe haven't quite become widespread enough for there to be classes on those topics locally. I think a good example of that is Julie Flanery's Imitation and Mimicry class. It's this really interesting concept that I couldn't imagine a local trainer trying to run a class on that. They'd be scrounging up students left and right. So I want to make sure we include a clip of her explaining that concept from her interview back in May. --- Melissa Breau: You kind of mentioned shaping and luring in there, but you wrapped up a class on Imitation and Mimicry and I have to say that's like such a fascinating concept. If you could start by just kind of explaining what that is for the listeners in case they're not aware of it, and just kind of sharing how you got into that, that would be great. Julie Flanery: Yeah. No, I'd love to. Imitation and Mimicry is a form of social learning or learning through observation, and we've long known it to be effective in human learning, but it wasn't until probably the last 10 years or so that we've really seen any studies on its use in dog training. I first heard about it at a ClickerExpo, a talk that Ken Ramirez gave on concept training in dogs, and then further researched Dr. Claudia Fugazza's study that she did, and in 2006 she created a protocol that showed that dogs can learn these new skills and behaviors by mimicking their owners and it's her protocol that we use in class. Also what's fascinating is that Ken Ramirez has developed a protocol for a dog-dog imitation and mimicry, and some of the videos I've seen on that are just truly, truly amazing. So, things that we didn't think were possible now we know are and we're actually able to bring to more people now. The class was really quite inspirational for me because my experience of course had been limited with it in working with it with my own dog and then some of my live classes, my students there in my live classes, we worked through it, and when Denise asked me to do a class on it I was really excited, but I wasn't quite sure what to expect and I have to say my students in that class are just amazing. They have really shown me what this protocol can do and how truly capable our dogs are of learning some of these concepts, so it's been a really exciting class for me. And matter of fact, I'm going to go ahead and put it back on...I think it is already...Teri's added it to the schedule for August, and so I'm really excited about doing it all over again. --- Melissa Breau: I love that our instructors are really well versed in such a wide variety of animal-related training and research. Teri Martin: No kidding! I think there's been tons of podcasts where you've had discussions about all sorts of cool research with dogs including I think even Kamal talked about teaching dogs how to fly a plane. I listened to one with our newest agility instructor just recently, Barbara Currier, who said that she was doing some wonderful things in the field of service dogs. Melissa Breau: Awesome. Let's give that a listen. --- Melissa Breau: So, I have to say, kind of working on your bio, it seems like you've had the opportunity to do lots of different really interesting things, in the world of dogs, from animal wrangling to working on wearable computing, so I wanted to ask a little more about what you do now. Can you tell us just a little bit about the FIDO Program there, at Georgia Tech, and what you're working on with the dogs there? Barbara Currier: Sure. So, FIDO stands for Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations. My best friend, Dr. Melody Jackson, she's a professor there, at Georgia Tech, and she runs the brain lab and the animal computer interaction lab. She came up with the idea of creating wearable computing for service dogs, military dogs, police, search and rescue, any type of working dog, and she asked me to come on to oversee the dog training aspects of the work. Within the last year, I've been really busy with travel, and so I, actually, haven't been working a lot with them, on the project, and she's actually taking over most of the dog training aspect, the pilot testing, with her dog, but up to this point, a lot of the stuff that they've created, it's kind of funny, when I tell people what I do there, the team that creates all the stuff, it's Melody Jackson and her lab partner Thad Starner, they're brilliant people, and the students that all work there are super brilliant. I am not a techy person. I'm lucky if I can turn my computer on, I just train dogs, so I kind of compare it to like the Big Bang theory, and I'm Penny amongst all of these brilliant people, and they just say stuff and I'm like, that's great, just tell me what you want the dogs to do. That's, kind of, where my expertise is, and I don't have any idea what the technical aspect of it is, but we've, actually, created some really cool things. They've created a vest that a service dog is trained to activate that has a tug sensor on it, and so we had a woman come to us that had a speech problem where she doesn't have, she can't project her voice out very loudly, and she's also wheelchair bound, and she was at the dog park, one day, with her dog, and her wheelchair got stuck in some mud, and she couldn't holler to anybody because her voice just didn't project like that, and she really needed, like, a way that she could send her service dog to get help to come back, and you know, but a dog running up to somebody, at a dog park, barking, nobody is going to think that's anything unusual. So, they created a vest that has a computer on it, and the dog has a tug sensor, on the vest, so she can direct the dog to go to somebody, and the dog can go up and it will pull a tug sensor and the vest will actually say, excuse me, my handler needs assistance, please follow me, and the dog can bring that person back to the handler. --- Teri Martin: And how cool is that! FDSA instructors have also been on the forefront of some of the new force free happenings with veterinary medicine. It makes so much sense to extend the positive philosophies when dealing with things that are so often necessary but not necessarily pleasant for the dog. I think Debbie Gross has some great views on that? Melissa Breau: Yup, let's roll that clip. --- Melissa Breau: Now, I think that veterinarians and the medical field in general isn't always known as the most positive part of dog sports, so I'd love to get your take on that. How do positive training and rehabilitation overlap, and are there places where they just can't? Debbie Gross: Yeah. And that's a very good question. I belong to an organization, I sit on the board called Fear Free, and their whole goal and mission is to establish fear-free veterinarians' offices, rehab offices, looking at training facilities, boarding facilities, things like that, so it's all aimed at making sure the experience is positive and fear free. And certainly…you know, we laugh in our clinic because we're not the vet, so dogs come in and they know they're getting copious amounts of cookies, and it's going to be a great place, and they love it, and so I think it's very important to, you know, right off the bat we want to make sure the owner and the dog are very comfortable. Certainly, dogs often will become fearful or potentially aggressive if they're in pain, so I always tell the trainers that I work with, assume that it's physical before behavioral. Now, I'll hear so many times from owners, "Oh, my dog didn't want to do the A-frame this morning. It's probably because …" You know, they make something up and then get steak for dinner. They swear they don't think like that. You know, they probably didn't want to do something because they're in pain. Something like the A-frame puts a lot of stress on the dogs back, and the hips, and stuff like that, so understanding if a dog is fearful, or doesn't want to do something, looking at the reason why, you know, so is it pain that is prohibiting them from doing something. And certainly, some dogs are not candidates, like, we've turned dogs away because they're either too fearful, or they just can't do … they don't want to do anything, and rather than forcing them, we won't do that, you know, and that's a little bit different than traditional vet medicine where dogs need to go in. They may need to get an exam, or their vaccinations, or things like that, but this fear free movement is fantastic, and you know, looks at everything from the lighting, their potential pheromones in the air to relax the dogs, and cats also, and other animals, so most the time in rehab dogs love it. They love coming into our office, and it's fun, and it's all positive, and you know, that's the way I want it to be. I mean, I love when the dogs pull their owners into the office, so you know that they're having a great time, so it's great. --- Teri Martin: And of course, using positive training in places where it hasn't historically been used, carries over into training sports that have been resistant to positive methods too -- like IPO and Gun Dog sports. Melissa Breau: Cassia offers positive gun dog training classes here at FDSA, so I wanted to include this clip from her on the importance of work and play. --- Melissa Breau: I know I mentioned in your bio that you believe dog training should be a form of structured play. It sounds like that's a little bit what you're talking about, but can you explain a little more what that phrase means, or at least what it means to you, and what it looks like in practice, like within a training session? Cassia Turcotte: Sure. I think that…I'm trying to think where I actually first heard that term, and it may have been even Lindsey that said it, but really, it's…you know, I don't want the dog to feel like what we're doing is work. If you feel like you're being dragged to work every day, it's mentally hard, but if they go out and they go, oh my gosh, this is the coolest thing ever, I can't wait to do more of it, then the attitude's up, the motivation's up, and you don't have any trouble with compliance. You know, they're really willing to play the game, and it's fun. It's fun for me and it's fun for them, so you know, it's one of the things…you know, how would it look in a training session? One of the things that we do in field work is called the walk up, and all that is, is a bumper is thrown in the air as you're heeling with the dog, and it's thrown in front of the dog, and the point of it is to challenge the dog to stay heeling and stay steady with you, and the traditional way would be to correct them for not doing that. So in our way, we jackpot with Chuckit! ball or tug or food as a reinforcement for being steady, you know, so they see the bumper go up, and they sit, and we say, “Oh my gosh, that's awesome,” and we throw a Chuckit! ball in the opposite direction, and so it's all a game, and it's about keeping them guessing and mentally challenging them and getting it so that they really understand what they're being asked to do, and they're not just corrected for not understanding. So I think that's pretty much what it would look like in an average day. --- Melissa Breau: We also mentioned IPO, before sharing that clip from Cassia, and the trainer best known for that at FDSA, hands down, is Shade Whitesel. With driven dogs, frustration problems can be a real issue; Shade has spent the last few years looking at how to prevent frustration through clear communication. During her interview back in February, she talked about location specific markers, which are one of the things she's known for here at the school. Teri Martin: I'm taking Shade's class right now with my young, 6-month-old puppy, and I'm absolutely loving this concept. It's really cool to see the clarification in how my dog knows that chase means [26:33] and you get the ball and [26:34] grab it out of my hands and [26:37] you can see the clarity, so I'm happy to see this clip. --- Shade Whitesel: No matter how you train, communicating as clearly as possible is so important, because 99.9 percent of our problems are due to the unclarity of our teaching. And all of our problems with dogs — I mean it's really our problem it's not theirs — go away when you look at the clarity, or more accurately the ‘not clarity' of your teaching. When your communication is clear arousal levels go down, frustration from your learner dog goes down, and you get more confident and fluent behaviors from them. And this holds true over trialing, over living with them, over everything, just to be as clear as possible and predictable, that goes into predictability too. So, no matter what method you do that is just so important I think — obviously, since I talk about it. Melissa Breau: So, I think one really good example of that is the work you've done with location specific markers. Do you mind just briefly kind of explaining what that means and kind of how you use them? Shade Whitesel: You know, markers are such a good thing and people are exploring them, and figuring out that it's really nice to bridge what behavior your dogs doing to get their reward. Tell the dog where to collect their reinforcement, like, technically I want a different marker that means collect it from my hands, whether that's food or a toy and I want a different marker that means collect it away from there, whether it's go pick-up the toy on the ground or whether I'm going to throw the toy, and again it's just that clarity. And I notice with my own dogs if I had a different marker word for, “Strike the tug out of my hand,” versus, “I'm going to throw it,” the dog stopped mugging me, they stopped looking for where the toy was all the time when I was asking for behaviors. Because they knew that I would tell them exactly how to get their reinforcement. And again, it just goes back to the clarity. So, location specific markers is just the dog knows exactly where to go and they don't have to be checking where the toy is or the food — is the food in your pocket? Is it over there in the dish? Because you're going to tell them so they can put 100 percent of their attention to figuring out what behavior you want them to do, because they can trust that you're going to tell them where the reinforcement is. --- Melissa Breau: The other person who really focuses on helping frustrated dogs at FDSA is Sarah Stremming. Sarah has her own podcast, but I've been lucky enough to chat with her twice so far, and wanted to share her take on frustrated dogs vs. dogs who just lack impulse control. Teri Martin: Let's roll that clip. --- Sarah Stremming: I think that for the worked-up types of dogs the most common misconception that I hear about is that these dogs lack impulse control, that a lack of impulse control is the problem. Or that a lack of … if we're going to be very accurate, we would be saying a lack of impulse control training is a problem. Just the phrase “impulse control” makes my eye twitch just a little bit because I think that it implies that there's this intrinsic flaw in these dogs that if they can't control themselves that there's something wrong with them, or that teaching them to control their impulses is something that we can do. I don't think that we can control their impulses one way or another. We can certainly control their behaviors with reinforcement. Whether or not we're controlling their impulses is probably one of those things that we would have to ask them about, kind of like asking them if they were lonely and if that was why they were jumping all over the person coming home. So I like to stay away from stating that lack of impulse control is a problem. I also think that in agility specifically we accept that our dogs will be in extremely high states of arousal and be kind of losing their mind, and we almost want them that way, and any kind of calmness is frowned upon. The dogs that are selected to breed for the sport tend to be the frantic, loud, fast ones, and looking at behaviors, there's just kind of a distaste in agility, I feel — and I'm going to get a million e-mails about this — I love agility, people! I love agility! I'm just going to put that out there! But there is a distaste for calm and methodical behaviors in agility. We push for speed, speed, speed from the beginning, and we forget that sometimes maybe we should shut up and let the dog think through the problem. So I think, to get back to your original question, “What's the misconception?” The misconception is that we need to put them in a highly aroused state to create a good sport dog, and that impulse control is the be-all, end-all of these things. And then, for the hidden-potential dogs, I think the misconception is just that they lack work ethic. They say, “These dogs they lack work ethic, they give you nothing, they don't want to try, they're low drive,” yada yada. I think that's all misconceptions. Everything comes back to reinforcement. When you realize that reinforcement is the solution to everything, you can start to solve your problems and quit slapping labels on the dogs you're working with. --- Teri Martin: I love that. She says, “Shut up and let the dog think,” and also that she says to quit slapping labels on the dogs, because we see so much of that. I love how she's challenging people to think outside the box on all those arousal questions. Melissa Breau: I couldn't agree more. Those are definitely topics that have come up again and again on the podcast, just the idea of not labeling your dog and giving your dog time to process through things. But they definitely aren't the only running themes. I think probably one of the most popular things I've heard, talking to FDSA instructors at least, is how important foundation skills are, and how much of a difference a strong foundation can really make. In fact, Kamal said it was his absolute favorite thing to teach. Teri Martin: Cool. Let's hear. --- Kamal Fernandez: My actual favorite topic is foundations for any dog sport -- that is by far my favorite topic, because that's where all the good stuff happens. That's where you really lay your… well, your foundations, for a successful career in any dog discipline. And I think the irony is that people always want to move on to what I would qualify as the sexy stuff, but the irony is the sexy stuff is actually easy if your foundations are laid solidly and firmly. And I think I've had more “ah-ha” moments when I teach foundations to people than I have with anything else. I also, i have to say, i like behavioral issues. You can make GREAT impact, and literally change somebody's life and their dog's life, or save somebody's life with behavioral work and giving them a new take on how they deal with their dog at present, but i would say really, really extreme behavioral cases are really, really juicy to get involved in, and dogs that people say they're on the cusp of writing the dog off, and the dog is so phobic or aggressive or dog reactive or whatever the case may be, and you can literally turn that person and that dog's relationship around. That's really rewarding and enjoyable to work with. But I would say as a standard seminar, I would say foundations by far. It's just you've got young, green dogs, you can see the light bulbs going off for the dogs, you can see the pieces being strung together, that are going to ultimately lead to the dog being this amazing competitive dog, and you can see it literally unfold before your eyes. --- Teri Martin: Foundations are one of those things that keep coming up. We see it at camp all the time. People think it's part of an exercise that's wrong, and it's something that's in that exercise, but nine times out of the ten it comes back to how that foundation was taught. Melissa Breau: I definitely want to share one more clip on that because, like you said, it's constantly coming up. This next one's from Deb Jones, who's known for covering all of the awesome foundation skills in her Performance Fundamentals class and her Get Focused class. So I asked her that exact question: Why are foundations so important. --- Melissa Breau: Right, so both the Focused class and your current class, the Performance Fundamentals class, seem to fall into that foundations category, right? So I wanted to ask you what you thought it was so…what is it about building a good foundation that is so critical when it comes to dog sports? Deb Jones: Foundation really is everything. I truly believe that. If you do your foundations well you won't run into problems later on or…I won't say you won't. You won't run into as many problems later on or if you do run into problems you will have a way to fix them because the problem is in the foundation. Ninety-nine percent of the time something wasn't taught to fluency or you left something out somewhere. You've got a gap or a hole, so going back to foundation and making it strong is always the answer. It's never a wrong thing to do. So I really like being able to try to get in that really strong basis for everything else you want. I don't care what sport people are going into or even if they're not going into sport at all. If they just like training and they want to train their dog this…a good foundation prepares you for any direction in the future because oftentimes we change direction. You have a dog you think you're going to be doing obedience with, but if you focus in the beginning too much on obedience behaviors, it may end up that dog just isn't right for that, and so you have kind of these gaps for.. "Oh well, let's see if I want to switch to agility. Now I need to train a new set of behaviors." We don't want that to happen, so we've got the foundation for pretty much everything. --- Teri Martin: So true what Deb says. Having those foundations just sets up the basis for everything we do in a dog's life, including how they have to function in our society today ... which I believe takes us nicely into our next clip, which is Heather Lawson talking about life skills in her Hound About Town classes. Melissa Breau: Excellent. Let's let it roll. --- Melissa Breau: Now, you didn't touch on two of the things that stood out to me when I was looking at the syllabus, which were the Do Nothing training, and Coffee Anyone, so what are those and obviously how do you address them in class? Heather Lawson: Yeah. I always get kind of weird sideways looks when I talk about Do Nothing training, because it's kind of like…people say, ‘What do you mean do nothing training,' and I say, “Well, how often do you just work on having your dog do nothing,” and everybody looks at me, “Well, you don't work on having the dog do nothing,” and I say, “Oh yeah, you do.” That's what we call settle on the mat, chill, learn how to not bug me every time I sit down at the computer to do some work, not bark at me every time I stop to chat with the neighbor, stop pulling me in all different ways, so it's kind of like just do nothing, because if you think about it the first maybe six months of your dog's life it's all about the dog and the puppy. Then when they get to look a little bit more adult all of a sudden they're no longer the center of attention, but because they've been the center of attention for that first eight weeks to six months, and there's been all this excitement whenever they're out and people stop, and you chat or you do anything, it's very hard for the dog all of a sudden now to have this cut off and just not be acknowledged, and this is where you then get the demand barking, or the jumping on the owner, or the jumping on other people to get that attention, whereas if you teach that right in the very beginning, okay, and teach your puppies how to settle, whether it be in an x pen, or in a crate, or even on a mat beside you while you're watching your favorite TV show. If you teach them to settle, and how to turn it off then you're going to not have that much of a problem going forward as they get older. The other thing, too, is that by teaching the dogs all of these different things that we want to teach them, that's great, and that's fabulous, and we should be doing that, but most dogs aren't active 100 percent of the time, they're active maybe 10 percent of the time. The other 90 percent they're chilling out, they're sleeping, they're…while their owners are away working if they're not lucky enough to be taken out for a daily hike, then they've got to learn how to turn it off, and if we can teach them that in the early stages you don't end up with severe behavior problems going forward, and I've done that with all of my puppies, and my favorite place to train the “do nothing” training is actually in the bathroom. What I do with that is my puppies, they get out first thing in the morning, they go their potty, they come back in, we get a chewy or a bully stick, or a Kong filled with food, and puppy goes into the bathroom with me and there's a mat, they get to lay down on the mat and that's when I get to take my shower, and all of my dogs, even to this day, even my 11-year-old, if I'm showering and the door's open they come in and they go right to their mat and they go to sleep, and they wait for me, and that's that “do nothing” training, right, and that actually even follows into loose leash walking. If you take that “do nothing” training how often are you out in your loose leash walking and you stop and chat to the neighbor, or you stop and you are window shopping, or anything else that you when you're out and about. If your dog won't even connect with you at the end of the line, then just…they won't even pay attention to you while you're standing there, or they create a fuss, then the chances of you getting successful loose leash walking going forward is going to be fairly slim, okay. The other thing that you mentioned was the coffee shop training, and that is nowadays people go and they meet at the coffee shop, or they go for lunch, and more and more people are able to take their dogs to lunch, providing they sit out on a patio, and on the occasion where the dog is allowed to stay close to you we teach the dogs to either go under the table and chill or go and lay beside the chair and chill, and teach them how to lay there, switch off, watch the world go by. Even if the waiter comes up, you just chill out and just relax and that allows the dog, again because they've got good manners, to be welcomed even more places. Melissa Breau: Right. It makes it so that you feel comfortable taking them with you to lunch or out. Heather Lawson: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. There's lots of places that dogs can go, providing, and they're welcome, providing they do have those good manners, and if we can keep those good manners going then regardless of whether or not your dog sports or not, it just opens up the avenues for so much more of us to do…more things to do with our dogs. --- Melissa Breau: Of course training and competition aren't entirely about our dogs… we play a big role in their success or failure in the ring. And that can lead to some serious ring nerves on both ends of the leash. Teri Martin: It always comes back to us, doesn't it? But the good news is FDSA has our resident “people trainer,” Andrea Harrison, to help us with this. --- Melissa Breau: So let's dig into a couple of those specifically just a little bit more, because I know there are a couple that we talked about a little bit before the podcast and whatnot as being particularly important. So I wanted to dig into this idea of kind of ring nerves and people experiencing nerves before a competition, things that really impact their handling. I was hoping you could talk a little more about that, maybe include a tip or two listeners can use when it comes to ring nerves and tackling it themselves. Andrea Harrison: Yes. For sure. One of the things I really encourage people to do is test those tools. So people go off to a trial and they're really, really, really nervous, but they don't know whether those nerves are physical, right, or in their head, or if they're affecting the dog at all, right? Because they've never really thought about it. All they know is that they're really, really, really nervous. They feel sick but they don't know is it in their tummy, is it in their head, is it their respiration, is it sweat glands, is it all of them, right? They haven't thought about it, they know it makes them feel sick so they push it aside, they don't work on it between trials, they go back to a trial and they're like, oh my God, I was nervous again. Well, of course you were nervous again. You didn't try working on anything, right? So like everything else it's almost like a training exercise. You have to think about what is making you nervous, how are you manifesting those nerves, and how can you break them down? It's just the same, right, just the same as positive dog training. Break it down into these tiny little pieces that you can then find a tool to address. So for example, if your mouth gets really, really dry and that distracts you and you start sort of chewing cud, as it were, as a cow, you're like, trying to get the water back in your mouth and it makes you nervous. Well, once you figure that out you take peppermints with you in the car, you suck on a peppermint before you go in the ring, and that's gone away. Right? And that's gone away so you feel more comfortable so you can concentrate on the thing you need to concentrate on, right? You want to always build to those results slowly. When you look at the nerves, I can't say to you, “Here's my magic wand, I'm going to wave it over you and all your nerves will be gone.” But you get that sick, sick feeling in the pit of your stomach, why is that? Are you remembering to eat the day before a trial? Are you eating too much the day before a trial? Are you remembering to go to the bathroom? Because when you're nervous you have to go to the bathroom, so make sure you make time to go to the bathroom because then there's less to cramp in your tummy, right? So step by step by step, you know, you make a plan, you look at the plan. What kind of music should you listen to on the way to the show? Should you listen to a podcast that's inspirational to you? Should you put together an inspirational play tack? Do you know exactly where the show is? If you're anxious and worried and always run late, for Lord's sake, please drive to the trial ahead of time or Google Map it really carefully and build yourself in 15 minutes extra, because being late to that trial is not going to help your nerves. You're going to arrive, you're going to be panicked, you're going to be stressed. So where is that stress coming from? How are those nerves manifesting themselves, right? So the music that you listen to on the way, having the mint if your breath is dry, remembering to go to the bathroom, thinking about what I call Andrea's Rule of Five. So Rule of Five is really simple. Is it going to matter in five minutes? Five hours? Five days? Five years? Right? So if something is stressing you out you can actually stop, ground yourself, which I'll get into in a sec, but ground yourself and think, Rule of Five. And the vast majority of the time, yeah, it might matter in five minutes because your run will just be over and it was not successful and you're embarrassed, maybe, or maybe it was great, and like, super. But very, very few of us are going to remember a run in even five months, let alone five years. I mean, you might remember in general, but your anxiety is not going to still be there, right? I mean, a great run you can remember. I can probably still tell you the details of some of Brody's amazing agility runs or Sally's amazing work, right? Like, I can describe going from the A-frame around to the tunnel and picking him up and staying connected and it was beautiful. I can remember the errors of enthusiasm, right, like when he took an off-course tunnel, and he's never done that in his life, and I was like, oh my God, he took an off-course tunnel. That's amazing. That's so cool, and we celebrated. So I just loved that he was that happy about it. But do I remember those very first, early trials where…do I remember the courses where I stood thinking, I'm never going to get my agility dog to Canada? No. I don't really remember. I remember being sad that he was three seconds over the time and _____ (18:35) [47:44], and that was kind of sucky, but it was okay, right? Like, now with all this perspective it's fine. --- Teri Martin: There's a lot, really, that affects both ends of the leash. After all, we're all learners… it can be easy to forget that sometimes. Melissa Breau: Nancy, for example, shared during her interview how her father influenced her training. He was a football coach, and she's a dog trainer, but that doesn't matter -- because it's all training. Let's listen to that clip. --- Nancy Gagliardi Little: He was a master at analysis, details and creative solutions and i think that's something that I've either inherited or I've learned from him. Melissa Breau: I was going to say, even just listening to you I can hear the parallels to dog sports; just the idea that breaking things down into pieces and foundation skills. Nancy Gagliardi Little: Exactly. This is the other piece that I think is so cool is he expected them to be excellent players, as well as excellent human beings, and he believes in people, and he respects people, loves to learn about people. There's so much about his coaching that parallels the way I train my dogs because I expect and focus on their excellence too. I believe in my dogs -- I always believe in them. I believe they're right and they're telling me things. I listen to them and try to make changes to my training based on what they need. Those are all things that my dad taught me from the way he coached his players. There are so many parallels between coaching and dog training; just his way of coaching, it helped me as a dog trainer. Melissa Breau: I'd really love to hear how you describe your training philosophy now -- what's really important to you? Or what do you see as the big things that you believe in how you believe in training when you work with dogs today? Nancy Gagliardi Little: Well, I guess to sum it up, it's not a really long philosophy. What sums it up for me is I just always look at my dogs as my coaches. So the dogs are my coaches, whether they're my students' dogs, whether they're my dogs, they're the ones who they're helping me develop a plan, and I like to think of it that way because it keeps me always evaluating and looking at things. --- Teri Martin: Dogs as coaches is one of those gifts that sometimes takes us in new directions we never expected. Take Stacy Barnett, nosework instructor, for example. She sort of fell into that sport because of her dog, Judd, just needed to have something, and now it's turned into this incredible passion for scent sports. I think she talks about that on her podcast and how the sport is so good for dogs that might struggle in some of the more traditional sport venues. Melissa Breau: She did! Let's give that a listen. --- Stacy Barnett: Nose work is not only a confidence builder. It can also help reactive dogs. Nose work itself is very reactive-dog friendly in those venues because the dog doesn't have to work within eyeshot or earshot of another dog. They get to work on their own. However, it really does help from a confidence perspective. The sense of smell is actually pretty amazing. It goes through the limbic system, which means that it goes through the hippocampus and the amygdala. So the amygdala is kind of the fight or flight area, and the hippocampus is responsible for developing those early memories. So what happens is, is that the dog is scenting, and the dog is using about one-eighth of his brain with scenting, and this is all going through this system that's responsible for emotion and responsible for memory. If we can develop this positive feeling toward sensing and toward scent, we can actually help to put the dog into a really good space so that they can work, and also, you know, as long as you're working the dog under threshold, the dog is able to continue to work and will actually become more confident over time and actually less reactive over time. I saw this particularly with my little dog, Why. When he came to me, he could not work at all away from the house. He was also fairly reactive to other dogs. Had about 100-foot visual threshold to seeing other dogs. Now, through nose work, he has developed a lot of confidence. He's now able to search in novel environments with very little acclimation, and he's also quite a bit less reactive. He's got about an eight-foot visual threshold now to other dogs, which I think is absolutely amazing. So the behavioral benefits, especially for a dog like Why, they're off the charts. Absolutely off the charts. --- Melissa Breau: It has been a lot of fun to see the sport of Nosework grow so quickly in the last few years. The AKC has even added it to their list of sports. I caught up with Julie Symons on the new handler scent portion that is part of the new Scent Work competition program with the AKC in Episode 39. --- Melissa Breau: I want to switch a little bit from outcomes to training… what challenges are there when training a dog to search for handler scent, you kind of mentioned that, that may not be present when you're teaching traditional odors? Julie Symons: That's a good question. First, it is just another odor. We can attack it that way and it's true, this is another odor that we teach your dog. But it is different in that it does have its challenges, especially for savvy nosework dogs that have been in oil for a lot of years. We've seen a little bit of it being a little bit more difficult for them in certain situations. For example, there's no aging handler scent, like with the oil odor. So oil hides, the nosework venues we've been at, they're usually placed and they're out there 30 minutes to hours, so the odor is going to disperse more and diffuse into the area. For handler scent you pretty much give it its last scent, you hand it over to the helper, they place it, and then you go in and run. So the scent's going to have less diffuse in the area, handler scents is heavier, that's going to fall down more than, like, a vapor odor oil will disperse in a room, and of course it depends on airflow. Any kind of airflow is going to travel in each scent. It's going to be helpful to your dog that the scent's going to travel into the space. With my dogs and many teams that I've worked in, I find that the dogs have to get a lot closer to where the hide is for handler scents to really hone on that. So in this case I'm not talking about the novice level and boxes; I'll get back to that. But if they hide Q-Tips or cotton balls in a search area, your dog really has to get close to it to find it. So what I'm finding is that I'm actually introducing a little bit more of direction with my handler scent and it's actually helped a lot, and it gets my dog focused and more... not a patterned search, but just getting them to search. For example, in Advanced Handler Discrimination, it's an interior search, and no hide is higher than 12 inches. So I'm going to plant low. I'm going to be, like, have my dog search low, and they find it really easily. And I found when I have blind hides somebody has set up for me, I feel more liberated to point and direct. Whereas if I know where the hide is, we tend to not want to intervene at all and my dog finds it quicker, because I don't know where it is and I'm just going to have my dog cover the area and then they usually find it. So that's been very helpful in the difference with the handler scent. Also another thing that's interesting if you watch dogs search the traditional oil hides in a box, they just find it really easy. You put your scented glove in a box and the dogs just search differently. They have to go cover the boxes a few times, they just don't hit on it as easily as oil. That oil odor, especially for AKC, is so strong, and your handler scented item is just not going to be as strong in a box, especially it's not aged. So those are some of the differences and why I think the handler scent is a little bit harder to source for a dog, just because of the amount of odor that you have and the fact that it's not aged. --- Melissa Breau: And while we're talking nosework, we have to include a clip from my call with Melissa Chandler. Like Stacy, nosework became her passion after she saw the positive effect it could have on a more sensitive dog, like her dog Edge. Teri Martin: I think there's some really great takeaways for handlers who have softer dogs in that interview. --- Melissa Breau: Now, having worked with a soft dog, do you have tips for others who have soft dogs, kind of to help them let their dog shine or that they should know about setting up training sessions? I mean, what kind of advice would you share? Melissa Chandler: Sure, this is another subject that I did a lot of research and I attended a lot of different seminars to try and get information, mostly to help Edge, and I think, first and foremost, it's so important to keep your dog safe and build their trust because once they trust you, that you will keep them safe, that gives them more confidence, and as I always tell my dogs, I have a cue, it's called “I have your back.” So, if they see something and they get concerned, I'm like, “I got your back.” So, that's our communication of whatever it is, I see it, you're fine, I got you, and it just takes time and by keeping them safe you build that trust that they know that you do have them. I would say never lure or trick your dog into doing something that they don't feel comfortable doing. Sometimes we find that in parkour because someone really thinks their dog should be able to do that behavior and the dog doesn't feel comfortable in that environment, so they tried to take cookies and lure them there. Just back off, work on it somewhere else, and eventually it'll happen. If you lure them, and then they get up there and they're really afraid, they're never going to want to do it again. If you let them do it on their own then they'll be able to do that anywhere in the future. Teach new behaviors in a familiar, comfortable environment, and then when you're ready to take it to another room or on the road, lower your criteria and reward any effort that the dog gives you in trying to do that for you. And one thing, when you're setting up your training sessions, make sure you're not always asking for difficult behaviors or, in nose work, difficult searches. You want your dog to always look forward to and succeed in your training sessions. If your sessions are always difficult and challenging your dog will no longer look forward to them. Have fun sessions that you reward everything, or just play, or do whatever your dog enjoys most. I had mentioned how much Edge loved his dumbbell, there's times we just go in the other room and we play with the dumbbell and he loves that, and just think of the value you're building in your relationship in your training because we just went and did what he loves doing. And then, for nose work, play foundation games. Just have one or two boxes out, do the shell game, play with your game boxes so it's fun, fast, quick, highly rewarding searches. And, I have a thing that I put in most of my classes, it's kind of like your recalls but it's for odor. How much value do you have in your odor bank. And, when you set up these fun, fast, foundation games, you're putting lots of value in your odor bank so, then when you have a more challenging side, you have deposits in that odor bank that they can pull out in order to work harder to find that odor. --- Melissa Breau: Gotta love those tips from Melissa C. So our next two clips, I think, really speak to Denise's sixth sense for bringing on new trainers… she seems to excel at tracking down people who really are incredibly good at what they do, but who also truly imbue the FDSA additude. Teri Martin: I agree. I think our next clip, from Chrissi Schranz, really shows what that attitude is all about. --- Melissa Breau: So I wanted to get into your training philosophy, and lucky me, I got a sneak peek before we started. You sent me over the link for this, but I'd love to have you kind of share your training philosophy and how you describe your approach, and for those of you who are going to want to see this after she talks about it, there will be a link to the comic in the show notes. Chrissi Schranz: Yeah, so I'd say my training philosophy is based on my favorite Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. So Calvin has a shovel and he's digging a hole, and then Hobbes comes up and asks him why he's digging a hole, and Calvin says he's looking for buried treasure. Hobbes asks him what he has found, and Calvin starts naming all kinds of things, like dirty rocks and roots and some disgusting grubs, and then Hobbes gets really excited, and he's like, “Wow, on your first try?” And Calvin says, “Yes. There's treasure everywhere,” and that is the kind of experience I want people and their dogs to have with each other. I want them to feel like life is an adventure, and there's so many exciting things to be discovered that they can do together. I want people to learn to look at the world through their dog's eyes a little bit and find this pleasure and just be together, and doing things and discovering things, whether that's digging a hole or playing in dog sports. Yeah, I want them to feel like they're friends and partners in crime and have that Calvin and Hobbes kind of relationship, because I believe if you have that kind of relationship as a foundation, you can do pretty much anything you want, no matter whether you want to have a dog you can take anywhere or whether you want to compete and do well in dog sports. I think if you have that kind of relationship as a basis, everything is possible. --- Melissa Breau: I like that… “Everything is possible.” You certainly can't predict how far a handler and dog can go, if they build a fantastic relationship. Sue Yanoff talked to that a bit too -- she had some great things to say about how our relationship with our dog makes us a great advocate when they need medical care. --- Melissa Breau: Is there anything in particular about veterinary medicine that sports handlers often just don't understand? Sue Yanoff: Yeah. I don't think it's just sports handlers. I think it's a lot of people. Veterinary medicine is a science, and the decisions that we make have to be based on science, and not just what people think, or what they heard, and so when you're making a decision about what the best diagnostics are for a condition, or how best to treat the condition, it has to be based on a series of cases, not just on what somebody thinks, and I go a lot based on what I learn at continuing education conferences, and what I read in the veterinary literature. Because papers that are published in peer reviewed journals are scrutinized to make sure that the science behind the conclusions are valid. So while, you know, it's fine for somebody to say , “Well, I did this with my dog and he did great,” what I want to make my decisions on is what worked well for many dogs, dozens, or hundreds, or thousands of dogs, and not just something that might have worked for your dog where we don't even know if the diagnosis was the same. So I think I want people to know that veterinary medicine is a science, and we have to make our decisions based on science. Melissa Breau: I think that, you know, especially with the internet these days it's very common for people to turn to their favorite local forum, and be like well what should I do, but… Sue Yanoff: I know, like, let me get advice from everybody, and I know it's hard to make decisions when it involves your dog and you're emotionally involved, and that's one of the reasons I want to teach this class, to give people information that they can use to make those hard decisions. Melissa Breau: What about the reverse? Are there things about sports that you think most vets just they don't understand? Sue Yanoff: Oh yes. Yes there's a lot. Unless you're a vet who's involved in this thing, most vets don't understand the time and the effort, and the emotion, and the money that goes into the training, and the trialing that we do. They don't understand the special relationship that we have with our dogs when we put the time and effort into training them. I have had dogs that were wonderful pets, and I loved them, but I never showed them for one reason or another, and there is a different relationship when you accomplish something special with that dog. So I think that's important thing. The other thing that most vets don't understand, and might not agree with, but I have had some clients where we have diagnosed an injury, and said, “Okay, we need to restrict activity, and do the conservative treatment route,” and they say, “I will, but my national specialty is next week, and she's entered in whatever class.” Or they say, “I have a herding finals coming up in two weeks, and I really want to run her in those trials,” and I'm okay with that if the dog has an injury that I don't think is likely to get much worse by doing a little more training, or trialing, then I'll say, “Okay. Well, let's do this in the meantime, and when you're done with your national or with your specialty or whatever, come on back and we'll start treatment.” So I think a lot of vets would not understand that point of view, but I'm okay with it as long as I don't think that it's going to do serious harm to the dog, and as long as the owner understands that there's, you know, a slight chance that things could get worse. --- Teri Martin: One of the great things about all these podcasts is hearing all the instructors' personal stories. For example, you've just gotta love a Sue Ailsby story. Her talk stories are well worth the price of admission in any of her classes. Melissa Breau: She shared a great story about her cross-over dog when we talked. --- Sue Ailsby: The first dog I trained, it wasn't clicker training but it was without corrections, was a Giant Schnauzer and I got her to about eight months and it was glorious. And we were getting ready for an obedience trial and I'm heeling along, and part of my brain is saying, isn't this glorious? She's never had a correction and she's heeling. And the other half of my brain is saying, but she doesn't know she has to. And then the first part, why should she know she has to? She knows she wants to, but she doesn't know she has to. I'm going to put a choke chain on her and I'm just going to tell her that she has to. This is not negotiable. You don't want to put a choke chain on her, you've spent eight mon
Tellington Touch (TTouch) is a form of bodywork that helps dogs learn to shift their emotional states. Pam Wanveer, a level 3 TTouch practioner, joins Julie Fudge Smith and Colleen Pelar to talk about how families can use TTouch to help their dogs deal with overexcitement, anxiety, and arousal. For more information and show notes see: Your Family Dog
Summary: Lori Stevens is an animal behavior consultant, a professional dog trainer, a canine fitness trainer, an animal massage practitioner, and a senior Tellington TTouch® Training practitioner. She continually studies how animal behavior, movement, learning, fitness, and health interact. She uses intimidation-free, scientific, and innovative methods, in an educational environment, to improve the health, behavior, performance, and fitness of animals. Lori gives workshops worldwide and has a private practice in Seattle, WA. She is also the creator of the Balance Harness. Lori's most recent of 3 DVDs By Tawzer Dog Videos is co-presented with Kathy Sdao and called 'The Gift of a Gray Muzzle: Active Care for Senior Dogs.' It focuses on improving the life of senior dogs. She will be teaching at FDSA in August for the first time, with a class on the same topic, called Helping Dogs Thrive: Aging Dogs. Links mentioned: The Gift of a Gray Muzzle: Active Care for Senior Dogs Helping Dogs Thrive: Aging Dogs Seattle TTouch (Lori's Website) The Feldenkrais Method Next Episode: To be released 8/4/2017, featuring Amy Johnson talking about taking photographs of our pets. TRANSCRIPTION: Melissa Breau: This is Melissa Breau and you're listening to the Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy, an online school dedicated to providing high quality instruction for competitive dog sports, using only the most current and progressive training methods. Today we'll be talking to Lori Stevens. Lori is an animal behavior consultant, a professional dog trainer, a canine fitness trainer, an animal massage practitioner, and a senior Tellington TTouch training practitioner. She continually studies how animal behavior, movement, learning, fitness, and health interact. She uses intimidation free, scientific, and innovative methods in an educational environment to improve the health, behavior, performance, and fitness of animals. Lori gives workshops worldwide and has a private practice in Seattle, Washington. She is also the creator of the balance harness. Lori's most recent of three DVDs by Tawzer Dog Videos is co-presented with Kathy Sdao, and called The Gift of a Gray Muzzle: Active Care for Senior Dogs. It focuses on improving the life of senior dogs. She will be teaching at FDSA in August for the first time with a class on the same topic called Helping Dogs Thrive: Aging Dogs. Hi, Lori. Welcome to the podcast. Lori Stevens: Hello. Thanks for having me on. Melissa Breau: I'm excited to shout today. Lori Stevens: Yeah, me too. Thanks, Melissa. Melissa Breau: Absolutely. So to get us kind of started out, can you tell us a little bit about your own dogs, kind of who they are, and what you're working on with them? Lori Stevens: Yes. So I'm going to talk about two. One is with me now because both of them actually got me into this business. So right now, I have a 12 year old Aussie named Cassie, and I got her when she was two years old, and at two, what I was working on is very different from what I'm working on now with her. At two we worked on a lot of behavior related issues, especially on leash, what you might label reactivity. She was barking a lot every day, she was unfamiliar, really, with being out in the world, and so I learned a lot from her. Basically, you know, how do you calm, and communicate, and build trust with the dog that basically didn't have trust in the world, so I learned loads from her, and we're always working on life with her. Our sport is fitness. We started out in agility, but over time, I figured out that, that was really hard for her, she wasn't really enjoying it, probably because of all the environmental sensitivity, and as much as I worked with her it just didn't seem like her thing. She loved it when she was running, but when she wasn't running it was really hard to hear all the noises and see the other dogs running, so we moved on, so now we do fitness, we do standup paddle boarding, we do lots of hikes, and now I'm living with an aging dog. So I actually have firsthand experience now in living with a dog that's getting older, but I wanted to bring up my first dog because that is the dog, Emmy, who got me into any of this work at all, and basically, she had a lot of health challenges, a lot of physical challenges, I learned just loads of stuff from her, and that's how I originally got into TTouch Training and massage, so I'll talk a little bit about that more, but I just want to bring up that Emmy is always present, even though she's been gone 10 years. She's been gone quite a while. Melissa Breau: They do manage to have quite a lasting impact sometimes. Lori Stevens: That is so true. So true. Melissa Breau: So what led you to where you are now? I mean, you started to mention Emmy a little bit, but how did you kind of end up working with dogs for a living? Lori Stevens: Well, so Emmy had all these physical issues and I just took a TTouch class, basically, to learn things to help Emmy, and I kept going to my vet, and my vet kept saying you're just doing wonderful work with her, if you would just get cards made up I would send all my clients to you, sent lots of clients to you, and it's kind of strange because…I won't say when, but way back when I ended up with a degree in computer science, but before that I was in occupational therapy, and I was also in the University Dance Company. I danced for many years, so I have this kind of weird dual interest, both in things physical, movement, bodywork. I always had that interest with occupational therapy and dance, but then I ended up in IT for many, many years. I just retired from the University in April 2017, from the university of Washington, but in 2005 I started my practice, and that was at the urging of a vet, so I got cards made up, and I didn't really think a lot was going to come of it, but in fact, that built my practice. So I went to four days a week at the University and had a practice one day a week for a long time, and then I went half time at the University. I just kept, you know, kind of building my practice and working in IT, and am out of IT, and totally focused on animals, which is fantastic. Melissa Breau: Indeed. Congrats. That's so exciting being able to focus on that full time. Lori Stevens: Yes, it is. Now I'm spending full time writing this course, which is really great fun, but it's a lot of work, and so it's a good thing I don't have my job too. Melissa Breau: So there are lots of kind of interesting pieces there, right? Just kind of all the different things that you work with, and all the different techniques you have, but I want to start with TTouch. So for those not familiar with it at all can you kind of explain what it is? Lori Stevens: I can. You're right, there's all those pieces, and oddly enough, they do all fit together, but what is Tellington TTouch Training? So people here touch and they think it's only body work, but Tellington TTouch Training is actually a lot more than body work. It is body work, and there are a variety of body work touch techniques, but there's also an element of it that is movement, which includes slowing down dogs and having them move precisely over various equipment on different movement patterns over different surfaces, stopping, turning, really slowing down the nervous system and letting them feel themselves, their bodies, in a way that maybe they haven't felt them before. It's interesting how many dogs move really, really fast, and it's uncomfortable for them to move really slowly when they're working with someone, so you learn a lot from that, and there's also several tools and techniques that go along with TTouch. One of those is leash walking and making it more comfortable for dogs to walk on a leash, and to fit well in their equipment, and that's pretty much how, you know, it's that awareness that caused me to develop, over years, the balance harness, but there's also the really learning to observe the dogs, and to give them choice. So there's a lot in TTouch that many years ago other people weren't really focusing on, and now, thankfully, many people are focusing on it all over the place, so it's kind of nice that, you know, it's now overlapping more with other work that people are doing, and anyway, I hope that gives you a better idea, but it's not just body work. Melissa Breau: Okay. So I wanted to ask kind of how it works too, and does it work for all dogs, is it something that works, you know, for some dogs better than others, is it something I could learn to do? I mean, how does that all kind of work? Lori Stevens: Absolutely, you could learn to do it. Does it work for all dogs? I have to answer that…and you know, of course, there's an element of it that works for all dogs, but you have to define what you mean by works, and everything depends on the dog and what you're trying to do, but the thing that makes Tellington TTouch work unique is that it's not habitual. In other words, the way you touch the dog is not the way the dog is used to being touched, so it sort of gets the attention of the nervous system in a different way. The way you move the dogs is different from how they typically move, so it kind of gets their attention in another way. It's almost as if they're listening to the work sometimes. It's super interesting. The nice thing about it is that I can get a dog that's so fearful in my practice that I can't touch the dog, but I have other tools to use with that dog, so I can move the dog, and over time, with that movement I build trust and we have a dialog going on between us, and eventually, that dog says okay, I'm ready to be touched now. I mean, they really do, they come up to your hands, and then once you start the touch work you've got another set of things you can do, so it's really got a depth to it that isn't so visible on the surface, and the fact that it's called TTouch often just leads people into thinking that it's just this one thing where you touch your dog. There's work in humans called Feldenkrais, so it was developed years ago, and it's a technique that moves people in nonhabitual ways to kind of develop new neural pathways to give them freedom of movement again. So people that have serious injuries, and they're, you know, varying them for whatever reason, a variety of reasons, have very limited movement, they can work with the Feldenkrais practitioner, or in a Feldenkrais class called Awareness Through Movement that really slows down and moves your body into nonhabitual patterns to regain new freedom of movement in your own body. It teaches your body to move in another way to get to the same place. Linda Tellington Jones, who developed Tellington TTouch Training, went through that Feldenkrais training for…she did it in order to work with the riders in our Equine Center, the horse riders, so then she started applying those ideas, and those techniques to animals, and that's where the work came from. Melissa Breau: Interesting. Lori Stevens: I know. It's a well-kept secret. Melissa Breau: So you know, you're also a small animal massage practitioner, and you're a certified candidate in massage, so how did those pieces kind of mesh? What are some of the differences between something like TTouch and massage, how do you use them in conjunction? Lori Stevens: There is overlap and there's also quite a bit of difference, so with my massage training I can really focus on if I'm working with a dog who is super tight in the shoulders from doing too much agility over the weekend, and has big knots, you know, I can get those knots out because I have that training. Also, my training is in rehabilitation massage, so I can do manual lymphatic drainage, so if the dog has lymphoma say, and has huge swollen lymph nodes in the neck that you can actually see how swollen the lymph nodes are, I can do this very gentle work to bring that swelling down, to move the lymph node system lymph fluid again, so I can do very specific work that has a very physical effect. In TTouch body work I can work on a tail and change the behavior of a dog, so…what? So it's very different, you're more working with fascia and skin in the nervous system than you are working muscles, although muscles can change as well. Both of the techniques can change gate. It's all very, very interesting how, you know, both of them can change gate from working on the bodies, and I'm sure there's a lot of overlap, even when you're focusing on different things, but they really have kind of a different focus. And the TTouch work is much…I won't say lighter, because they both can be quite light, like even when I'm working on a knot in a muscle I don't dig in there, you know, I'm very…I go with the muscle, but I would just say they have a different focus, and therefore, you can end up with a different result. And the TTouch body work can actually…I see more changes in behavior than I do with massage, and I don't know if that's because I'm focused upon that, I don't know. I mean, it's kind of interesting, but you know, when a dog gets really uptight, often times out on a walk, my dog's tail will start to go up. That will be one of the first things I see. Maybe her ears and head, but I'll see her tail go up. If I actually reach down and just stroke her tail and bring her tail back down it actually brings her back down. Melissa Breau: Interesting. Lori Stevens: Yeah, I know. It's kind of interesting. I might have to teach that in my next Fenzi course. Melissa Breau: Hey, I'd certainly be interested in learning a little more about it. So it sounds like to me…and I could be totally of base, obviously, but if the TTouch is a little bit more focused on kind of the physical and behavioral tied together, whereas, the massage is more kind of on the physical and performance side. Is that kind of right? Lori Stevens: Well, sure. You can put it that way. I would just say they are different techniques. There is overlap, but there are different techniques. TTouch in no way does it do manual inside drainage, for example, that is a massage technique, and when I'm doing just message to get knots out I'm not generally looking for changes in behavior. I'm looking for changes in the body. So…I don't know, I mean, they're both touching the body, both body work. Melissa Breau: Now, you're also a certified canine fitness trainer, so how does that factor in? Lori Stevens: So that factors into the movement work, so I have been doing the Tellington TTouch training moment work for years, and it wasn't really getting dogs to the point that…it wasn't getting them where I wanted them to go if they were showing weakness in their muscles. Having a background in dance and being active my entire life, I was really looking for ways of helping the dogs be stronger, and more flexible, and more agile, and more confident, and blah blah blah, and some of those TTouch gave, and some of those it didn't, so it was natural for me to take it a step further. I mean, all the stuff I do sounds like a bunch of certifications, but they're all really interwoven. I had been doing some fitness with dogs for years, and then when the University of Tennessee offered the certified canine fitness trainer program and partnership with Fitpaws I jumped on it, because that was the first program that I saw that I thought would be worth doing, and just going ahead and getting my certification in it, plus I learned things. When I see…especially a dog's age, is weakness, or you know, I see habitual movement patterns that maybe a dog got injured when they were two, and at six they're still carrying the same pattern, they just never quit taking all their weight off their back right foot, say, so fitness really allowed me to take it a step further and help those dogs get back to being more functional, and stronger. And it's really fun, and it's a fantastic way of building trust, and enjoying communication with your dog. It's just another…well, like I said, it's my sport, one of my sports, so I just think it's fantastic. Melissa Breau: So I want to kind of shift gears for a minute and look at your interest in older dogs. What led to that? Was it Cassie getting older or was it something else? Lori Stevens: No, no. I've been working with older dogs for years. It's funny how long I worked with them before I had one, although, I have had older dogs before, but because of the kind of work I was doing the veterinarians were sending lots of senior dogs to me, and because I was helping them get functional again, and helping them feel better I just kept getting them, so I had a lot of experience. Even in 2005 I was getting the older dogs sent to me and I just kept building up that knowledge of working with them, and helping them feel better. I wonder what year it was. I want to say it was 2014, but I can't be certain. Kathy Sdao and I decided to do Gift of a Gray Muzzle together and really focus on aging dogs in a video in our workshop. We just gave that workshop recently again. It's kind of a passion of mine because you know, everybody when they get a puppy they're very enthusiastic about their new puppy, and you know, they have to learn a bunch of things, but there's a motivation to learn a bunch of things because you have a new puppy, you just went out and got it, but our dogs age gradually, and it's not the same kind of oh boy, I've got an aging dog, and I'll go out and learn all these new things. You know, books on aging dogs don't sell, and the thing is that there's a real joy of working with aging dogs, and watching them get new light in their eyes, and watching them physically get through things that maybe they weren't getting through before, so anyway, that's what led me to it. Melissa Breau: To kind of dig into that a little more, what are some of the issues that older furry friends tend to struggle with where your training and presumably, also your upcoming class may be able to help? Lori Stevens: Well, I think even with people, keeping our dogs minds, or keeping our minds and bodies active is incredibly important, and this thing happens as dogs age is they all of a sudden get really comfortable sleeping for a very long time, and I think we go…especially if we have more than one dog I think we kind of say to ourselves well, our older dog's fine, you know, I'll put more energy into my younger dog, you know, maybe don't think that, but that's what ends up happening, and then one day you notice oh my god, the hind end strength is going, and the proprioception is going, which both of those naturally diminish with age. I better say what proprioception is. Proprioception is your conscience ability to know where your body is in space during movement, so if you think of a toddler at a certain age, they can't hold their cup up with juice in it, they're just pouring it upside down and then they're upset their juice is gone, but then at a certain age they suddenly know how to keep their cup upright while they move. That's proprioception. Well, you lose it with age, and so you have dogs that used to be able to step over and run over everything, running into low poles, or low logs, or whatever, and so hind end strength and proprioception naturally diminish with age, and so in the course, and when I work with older dogs, and when I do the workshops, that's what I'm helping people do is get those back. Also, I think we're not quite prepared as humans to all of a sudden, we have this senior dog, and our dog can't do as much as it could do before, and so we have to change as well, so how do our expectations need to change, and how can we make this time together, which hopefully, will be many years as wonderful as it can be. You know, we have to change our expectations, and rather them be disappointed, find joy in that as much as our dogs need to find joy in a different kind of life as well. Not meaning…this isn't bad, this is all good stuff. I mean it all in a very good way. It's just that's it's different, and so you know, in the course I give lots of tips on the easiest way to get your dog in and out of a car, or on the sofa, the functional things that dogs could do when they were younger, sometimes those go away, and so how do we bring back that function or maintain that function and joy with our aging dogs. So we'll be doing lots of activities in that course on keeping our dogs minds and bodies active, but also tools and techniques we can use to participate in making their lives as good as we can. Did that help? Melissa Breau: Absolutely. So if you were to make one recommendation for everyone listening who happens to have an aging or older dog, what would it be? Is it about mind shift, is it about, you know, exercise? I mean, what kind of piece would you pull out of that? Lori Stevens: Well, I certainly have one. Surprise, surprise. I would say be your dog's advocate, trust yourself. If you suspect something is wrong, be a detective until you get to the source. I can't tell you how many times the answer is well, your dog's getting older, you know, you're making stuff up, or that's just natural, your dog's getting older, and there really has been something, so I do think it's really, really important to be your dog's advocate, and to trust yourself, and it's okay to take your older dog to acupuncture appointments, or TTouch appointments, or massage appointments, or swimming appointment, you know, whatever you want to do to make yourself feel better. That's a good thing, but if you notice that…and your dog feel better, but if you notice something seems off it can be really hard to find what it is, and just be your dog's advocate is all I can say. Go to another vet if your veterinarian isn't willing to work with you through figuring out what it is. Melissa Breau: And finally, the questions I ask in every episode. I want to ask you kind of the same three questions that I asked everybody whose come on so far. So to start, what's the dog related accomplishment that you are proudest of? Lori Stevens: My observation skills. I mean, they have developed since 2005 and I'm happy that I can now recognize how developed they are, and how important observation skills are, and really honoring the dog's needs rather than my own agenda, right. I mean, you know, sometimes it's natural when you have a practice to think through I'm getting ready to see this person and dog, and here's my agenda for the hour-long session, we're going to do it, X, Y, and Z, and then the dog gets there and goes no, we're not, you know, I want to do something else. So really being observant to be able to tell that, and then honoring the dog's needs, and the person, of course, has the say in what you do as well, but you know, really honoring the dog's needs. And I've actually…I will say it's only happened once since 2005, but I lost a client for not forcing a dog to do things, so I didn't mind losing that client, but… Melissa Breau: It's important to stand up for your principles and kind of do what you believe is the right thing. Lori Stevens: Yeah, and I'm just not comfortable forcing dogs into position for a massage. Melissa Breau: Right. So what about training advice, what is the best piece of training advice that you've ever heard? Lori Stevens: You know, it's funny. I don't really think these are what you have in mind, but… Melissa Breau: That's okay! Lori Stevens: Yeah. Meet the dog where she is or he is. That was the best piece of advice I heard and that was in TTouch, but just kind of change to meet both learners, the dog and the person, where they are. You can't really tell people to change, right, you have to guide them gently, and kind of move with them when they're really to move. People have to decide for themselves to make changes, and communication is so incredibly important. I've seen dogs and people go from, you know, a pretty dark place to an incredible place, and I'm so thrilled with what, you know, with the influence that I had on that. I would have to say just meeting everybody where they are, and recognizing how important communication is, and that it's not just about what we think, or how we think it should be done, but bringing the person and dog along at their own pace. Melissa Breau: And finally, who is someone else in the dog world that you look up to? Lori Stevens: Well, you know there's several, but I have to say Dr. Susan Friedman and Ken Ramirez probably are two top. Melissa Breau: Ken's well regarded among the FDSA staff. I've heard his name a couple of times now. Lori Stevens: Yeah. He's pretty great. So is Dr. Susan Friedman. I think you'll hear her name more and more if you haven't already. Melissa Breau: Cool. Well, thank you so much for coming on the podcast, Lori. Thank you so much. I appreciate you having me on. Melissa Breau: I feel like I learned a ton. Lori Stevens: That's great. Melissa Breau: Yeah. And thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in. We'll be back next week with Amy Johnson to discuss photography and our dogs. If you haven't already, subscribe to our podcast in iTunes or the podcast app of your choice to have or next episode automatically downloaded to your phone as soon as it becomes available. CREDITS: Today's show is brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. Special thanks to Denise Fenzi for supporting this podcast. Music provided royalty-free by BenSound.com; the track featured here is called “Buddy.” Audio editing provided by Chris Lang and transcription written by CLK Transcription Services.
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Melissa Breau: This is Melissa Breau and you're listening to the Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy, an online school dedicated to providing high quality instruction for competitive dog sports using only the most current and progressive training methods. Today we'll be talking to Dr. Amy Cook. Amy has been training dogs for nearly 25 years and has been specializing in the rehabilitation of shy and fearful dogs for over 15 years. She's the creator of The Play Way, her process for helping dogs learn to cope with the world around them. She's also a certified dog behavior consultant, a long-standing professional member of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers, and has attended all four Chicken Camps in Hot Springs, Arkansas taught by Bob Bailey. Amy returned to school in 2006 to get her PhD in psychology from UC Berkeley. Her research there focused on the dog/human relationship and its effect on problem solving strategies dogs employ. She also recently started a blog at playwaydogs.com, and everyone should definitely go check it out. Hey, Amy, welcome to the podcast. Amy Cook: Hi, Melissa. Thanks for having me. This is so exciting. Melissa Breau: I'm very excited to talk to you. To start us out do you want to tell us a little bit about the dogs you have now and what you're working on with them? Amy Cook: Oh, my dogs. You know, when you start people talking on their dogs it's kind of endless, so you're going to have to stop me when you've heard about my lovely dogs. I have currently, I lost my old girl last year who I would have had a lot to say about, but I have currently Marzipan who some people know, she's my Whippet, she's five and a half, I want to say, or so, and with her I mainly do agility. She's been actually out with an injury for now what seems like a million years and since dinosaurs have roamed the earth. She got sort of her foot reconstructed, she had reconstructive surgery on her toe. So it's been a real adventure having a dog go from three classes a week and traveling every weekend to you live in a box. It's been hard on both of us, but also stretching for both of us because of how I can keep her happy in different ways than I used to before. And I have little baby Caper who I think you helped name if I'm not mistaken. She is a ten-month-old terrier, chihuahua-terrier is what she is. Melissa Breau: So what did Marzipan do to her foot that took her out of commission? Amy Cook: You know, yeah, you'd think it would be during sport or something since we do such crazy stuff, but no, we were hiking and I think the crime was that it was not quite winter, it wasn't winter, it was summer, and the ground used to be marshy and now was dry and cracked. I think she just tweaked a toe just running, just not even running a lot, just running kind of a normal amount, and it didn't look injured at all, and so it took so long, it's like, oh, rest it for three weeks, it'll be fine. Then it was like, oh, that wasn't long enough, rest it for eight weeks and it'll be fine. The specialists come in and they're like, you're going to take four months and it'll be fine. Then finally to the agility, fancy agility surgeon and he said, “Yeah, I think we should do some surgery on her toe. It's not healing.” So from that point, I know, it was six weeks of splint and six weeks of bandage and now it's going to be 12 weeks of rehab. You know, it was quite a shock to the system. She's my main partner, my main dog. I didn't have the puppy, she was the only dog I had at the time that happened. So our training life took a turn for a bit. But we're almost there. Almost there. Six more weeks, I hope. Melissa Breau: The end is in sight. Amy Cook: End is in sight. Very happy about that. Melissa Breau: So you mentioned the puppy. Where did the puppy come from? Amy Cook: Caper, she was my unplanned pregnancy as my friend likes to say. God, she was…a friend sent me a picture, I'm like, oh my God, she's so cute, it's a classic story, I just need a little pocket dog, I just need a little…Marzipan is going to be out for a while. My next sport dog will come in 2018, I thought to myself, and I just need a little dog to tide me over, I'll get a little Chihuahua or I'll get a little pocket dog, I'll have a little fun companion for a bit. So that'll be fun. So I get this little sort of try on as a foster dog and the first thing she does from week one is she's bringing me toys, she's pushing me, she's, “Why are we not doing more? I'm not a pocket dog. Put me down. Why are you picking me up? I don't want this. Here's a toy. Can you tug this?” She was so active. It's like I'd adopted a Border Collie puppy. It's crazy. I was like, oh, well, that's not who I thought you were, but I can roll with that. Okay. All right. That's fun. She's a fun little dog. She's really fun to train and she came with focus out of the box. I've barely trained focus in her and she doesn't take her eyes of me. It's crazy. It's really fun. Melissa Breau: She's really cute. Amy Cook: It's a real contrast to Marzipan. She's so cute. And it's a real contrast to Marzipan because I'm used to the sighthound way and she's all terrier, all terrier. I'm learning a lot from that, from working with that psychology, you know? It's different. Melissa Breau: So I know that one of the things about your intro that I don't think I'd known before I started doing some research for the podcast is that you'd been to Chicken Camp, especially four times. So I really want to hear more about that. Just like, what your impressions were, what your thoughts were about it, what was it like? Amy Cook: Amazing. Amazing. I went to Chicken Camp. It's like a friend of mine and I, we went together, and I'm really glad to see that Bob is still here and with us and doing Chicken Camps, but at that time I think it was right after his wife had died and they were doing the camps together, and he wasn't sure how much he was really going to continue. It was like, God, I've been putting this off way too long, we have to go, we have to go. So I actually did I think two in one summer and then two the next summer if I'm not mistaken. I kind of crammed them in. Melissa Breau: Wow. Amy Cook: Yeah. Because I really wanted to take advantage of learning from Bob. There's really nobody like him. At the time I was very, very into clicker trainer, I mean of course still, but I was much more so then. Learning it, learning it a lot on the internet, a lot from books, a lot from just every source I could find and I wanted to go to somebody who was so close to the, I guess I could say origins of it if that's fair to say, and learn as much as I could. Honestly it was absolutely life changing to learn both from him and to train an animal that does not meet you halfway, that does not help at all with the learning process, isn't trying to work with you at all. I think if you can train a dog that's one thing, but it doesn't guarantee you can train another animal. But if you can train a bunch of other animals you can probably train a dog because they make it so much easier on you and the other animals kind of don't, at least that's my impression. So it was wonderful and he's such a good teacher. He knows exactly how to lay just the right amount in front of you. There was one time when a chicken was pecking me like crazy and I was really afraid of her and he actually shaped us both without telling me that's what was happening. So I got the experience of just quietly being compassionately and respectfully shaped. It was just a beautiful experience. I loved chicken camp so much and it changed the way I train fundamentally. Absolutely. Melissa Breau: For anybody out there who might not be familiar with the concept do you want to just briefly kind of explain the idea? Amy Cook: Sure. So what you do is maybe you're a dog trainer, maybe you're a bird or exotic animal trainer, I went to camp with a few of those, or even a psychology professor. If you want to learn how to apply the techniques of operant conditioning in a very controlled environment you can go to Chicken Camp. You pay money to spend a week with Bob and two chickens and a partner and a _____ (16:26) doing the little exercises that he lays out for you. They get increasingly complex and you first start with how do I click and how do I feed this animal in a way that is correct? How do you feed a chicken? They peck. You can't hand them with your hand a piece of feed, right? So you go through all the mechanics of how to train a chicken, clicker train, and then he gives you these little tasks. So it's like, you know, here are some disks, have your chicken peck only the red one and not the yellow or blue one. You're like, oh, piece of cake. I can do that. Famous last words, right? Sure enough, one errant click somewhere because you're late, because dogs can kind of handle you being a little bit late, right, and still progress, one errant late click for the chicken and the chicken goes, oh, all right, got it, and starts doing that thing that you clicked over and over and over again. You're like, no, no, I didn't…wait. I just…could you not? I didn't mean that. No. One click could get you a hundred clicks in the wrong direction to get out. And you really learn to be accurate because you can't afford to make certain kinds of mistakes. And the chicken will get full, so every click and every food they eat is measured. You have to really, really be careful and very, very good, and you make all sorts of sloppy mistakes and you pay for them really harshly. Your chicken does not do anything you thought you were teaching, you're all over the place. You know, you find yourself maybe turning to things you otherwise do with your dogs that maybe you don't realize you do, like oh, come on, just could you just…then you're like, wait, I can't do that to a chicken. Do I do that to my dog? I shouldn't do that to my dog either. It pares you down to the pieces of the technology that actually work and the chicken forces you to get better because she's not going to cover a single mistake that you make, ever. That's it. Click once wrong and oh, boy. You're going to be there all day. Melissa Breau: I definitely think Chicken Camp is on my someday list, on my bucket list, something I would love to do. Amy Cook: For sure. Absolutely. Run, don't walk. For sure. Melissa Breau: So I wanted to ask you too about the early days of FDSA because I believe, I think you actually told me that you were one of the first teachers that Denise brought on at Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. So I was really curious to get some of your impressions on how you think it's changed and kind of what happened when she initially approached you. Amy Cook: Oh, boy. You know, it was standing in the right place at the right time, I swear. You know, she had taught online elsewhere and decided to do this endeavor, and I was just…I'm pretty sure I was just finishing grad school and saying, well, I guess I'm going back to dog training. I wasn't sure what I had in store, I'll just revamp or ramp up my business again, fine. And I can remember, I was standing near a freezer in her garage and I can't exactly remember how it came up but she said, “We have a behavior arm, could you teach what you teach, teach a class in what you do?” Boy, I felt…the answer was both yes and no. The answer is no because I've never done that, but the answer is yes because well, it has to be possible, right? Sure. I'll certainly try it. I really wanted to do something like that. But for a second there I was like, really? Behavior? Behavior, though. I mean, behavior. It's complicated. People are all over the place. Dogs are behaving all over the place. It's a lot to…how will I do this online? But I had faith. She really had vision early on for how this was going to go and we brainstormed, I was really excited about it. She actually came up with the title of the class, Dealing with the Bogeyman, that's hers. She's like, let's call it that. I was like, sure. It was exciting. It was exciting times and I was really just like, well, I'm happy to run a class and see what I can do for people. If it's something I don't feel is resulting in improvements that are reasonable for the dogs I'm helping then it's not right, then online is more suited for skill-based stuff and not so much the concepts or the complicated behaviors. I shouldn't have been afraid because it's been amazing. It's been amazing. I got to say, I think that my online students…oh, well, I wrote a blog post about this because I was just so moved by this. My online students get to their goals faster than in person students do, and there's something very intoxicating about that. To get somebody closer to the resolution in such a shorter amount of time, you know, I was like, well, then I want everybody online. Everybody get online. Everybody, quick. You know? And it's amazing how much contact I have with somebody who takes an online class. They can talk to me every day whereas no in-person client does that or can afford to really. That's the reason. And I get every day almost contact with people trying to apply the lessons, run into problems, and ask again. I get to fine tune it so much. It's like living with people which is what I always want to do when I get a new client. I'm always thinking wow, if I could just move in, you and I together, we could fix your situation and I could help you. But you get an hour a week. It's not enough, you know? And boy, being online with people in amazing and the community that Denise has been able to build through Facebook and all of that. I don't know. I think about it all the time. I think about how much access we have to changing…I know it's ____ (22:34) any other way to say it, changing the world. You know? It's the ripple effect. You have to put it out there and say, this is the way I think we should be doing this, and let me help you with it. And the changes I've seen just in these short few years have been really, really inspiring. I'm so grateful to be a part of it. Melissa Breau: So my understanding is the very first class that you started offering right out of the gate with Denise was the Bogeyman course, right? Amy Cook: It was. It was. And that's all I ran for a long time. Melissa Breau: Do you want to just explain briefly to listeners kind of what the course is and a little bit about the methodology that you use? Amy Cook: Yeah. So the course is Dealing with the Bogeyman, and it's designed for fearful, stressed, reactive dogs, dogs that are overwhelmed with what's going on for them, what they're afraid of, and really getting to the root of problem and really trying to get to the source, get right to the bottom of the problem rather than just kind of manage it which is what we end up doing a lot of times. We find a way to get to about a stasis and we kind of coast along there. But stress is a hard thing to experience. Everybody listening knows exactly what I mean. Wouldn't we all not want to have the stress we have in our lives? Every one of us wants to have a less stress life pretty much because it's hard and I feel that for dogs. It's hard for them to live in our world when they're so stressed. So this class is designed to help with that at a root level. What I do is I use social connection and social play to help get them in a state where they can process their triggers a lot better, and I reduce the use of food, I reduce the use of toys sometimes to zero, but not always all the way to zero, to help them. And it didn't start out…like, it started out, the first iteration of the class is not like the current iteration that's running right now. It has evolved a lot over time. As I watched students have more success with even more play I started emphasizing more and more play. It was a part of the program before but it wasn't as emphasized as it is now. But I've seen the wonders of what it can do, and so now it's really the bulk of what the approach is. I think I might have lost your question in the fact that I'm just talking on. Is that what you're asking? Melissa Breau: Not at all. You actually answered it pretty well. I just wanted you to kind of explain what the Bogeyman course was and kind of what's involved and I think you did that very nicely. I do… Amy Cook: People are going to play. If you take the class you're going to play, play, play, play, and then you're going to play some more, and then your dog is going to get better. That's _____ (25:35). Melissa Breau: So that leads me very well into my next question which is asking you to kind of…I know when you and I talk about it usually you call it kind of The Play Way is like, the name of the methodology even though the course if the Bogeyman course. So I was curious if you wanted to sum kind of what the play way is up in a short blurb. I mean, you talked about it a little bit, but if there's anything kind of you want to add there. Amy Cook: Yeah. The play way is specifically using social play and social connection, so not tug, not fetch, not that kind of thing, but being goofy and silly and making your dog laugh and having a fun time with your dog, and taking that play and using that to directly solve problems that they have with fear. So it's dog centric, it's about the dog, him or herself coming to a new understanding of the thing that they don't currently understand. So if they're afraid of strangers it's because they have a misunderstanding of what the strangers are about, because none of the strangers really mean to hurt them, and I think they don't have enough information. Now it's hard to get dogs to get new information about things that are scary to them because they're scared of them and you can't look at it openly and you can't deal with it as well. Like, I can't deal with spiders. You put one on me, I'm done. I can't deal with that. So if you want to reframe that it's not going to work until you get me distance, you get me in a calm state, and I really found that play puts them in this completely different emotional space that allows for our therapeutic attempts to really take root. And I realize none of that is brief, none of what I just said is brief. I don't think I can be brief. I think I'm genetically wired to be the opposite of. Melissa Breau: But I think it gives people a good idea, right, of what the methodology is and kind of what you're endorsing here. I mean, I think that it's very different probably than what most people are used to hearing about dealing with fear and dealing with dogs' sensitivities which is so often food-based. Amy Cook: It's different from anything I had ever done. I mean, I've been doing this a long time and it's a complete departure for me. It's not at all what I've done most of the time in helping dogs. Melissa Breau: So where did it come from? Where did the idea… Amy Cook: Well, yeah. Kind of…it's an evolving idea I should first say, right, I'm not finished. I mean, I want to keep investigating all of this and putting all the little pieces together. Right now I'm at a place where I've put some pieces together and it's hanging together, it's helping, and that's really exciting. It's sort of this big evolution of influences. I first got together with Denise because I had known her before kind of just from our local training circles, but she and I both got puppies at the same time and they both turned out to have every similar sorts of views on the world and challenges and training. It made us get together kind of more often. Once a week we would talk about it and shoot the breeze about these different things. I started watching her train in person more which I hadn't really done a lot of previous. And the amount of social interaction and the way she was working with her dogs was sort of reminding me of how I had been feeling lately about a lot of clicker training was feeling remote to me, at least at the time. It was feeling like very Chicken Camp. I'll tell you maybe a little bit about that later, but where you observe your animal a lot, so you're watching, and you're holding your clicker, and you're kind of being still and letting your animal think. Or maybe it was just me, I was making learning a little more sterile than I needed it to be, and she had so much more play and relationship in it. And through watching her do that and training with her and exploring that with my own dog I started just to…some things were clicking in my head. Then I'm also friends with Grisha Stewart and when she was creating BAT which is behavior adjustment training she was really exploring how dog centric training could be. Like, how much can I let the dog do for him or herself without intruding so much and let the process happen so naturally? And it was inspiring to me because we were tending not to do that, we were tending to make a lot of associations. Here's a cookie, I'm making an association for you, I'll be there in your process with you. That was percolating a bit too, about how to…I mean, really dogs, all of us should know how to deal with our fears if we're given the right environment to do so. An animal should know how to calm him or herself. An animal should know how to become less afraid, to investigate something that's frightening. It just isn't available if the stimulus is too high. If you're too afraid you can't do it, but all of us have that kind of wisdom in us. We all know how to make something better. So with that percolating. And then I sort of had this undercurrent of a bit of dissatisfaction with the way rehab was going with the basic tools that I had. It worked, but I don't know, I felt that there was something more. And when I was in grad school I got a chance to actually read a whole bunch more literature than I had been able to read as a nonstudent, although I was studying Skinner and studying Pavlov and using science to train dogs, for sure science based all the way. Now I had big libraries behind me and a whole bunch of information and people I could ask, and I realized when we're dealing with human fears we don't really do it like we do with dogs, we don't really classically condition them in that same way. And more importantly, when children have fears we don't classically…or maybe someone does, but I was seeing that a lot of therapy has to do with play and has to do with relaxing and talking things through. I thought, how can I do this with dogs? I can't talk things through with dogs. So all these pieces were just kind of in the air for me. And as each influence kind of came in I started to think, well, okay, I like what this distance is doing, but the dogs are on their own, and for our sport dogs we need them to be turning to us and be more interactive and wanting to do things with us. How can I put myself in this picture with them, with their dog centric work without impeding it, without taking it over, without going back to trying to click or make associations with classical conditioning? How can I blend them? And I started to just experiment and see what dogs needed. And it kind of all came together. It took a few passes through Bogeyman for me to see just how I wanted to impart it to people. Honestly that's not even true because I keep tweaking it, I tweak it every time figuring out how to explain it better and more. But that's where it came from. It's partly human psychology, human therapy, and partly the great distances that Grisha is experimenting with and letting a dog solve her own problems, and then the great relationship building stuff that Denise is just amazing at, and reading when you are being too much for your dog and when you're not giving them enough agency to come at you. You know, she's just so good at that and I drink everything…every time I get to see her do anything like that I drink it up and think how can this apply to dogs in trouble? How can I use this? You know, it's very inspiring. Melissa Breau: Yeah. I mean, I have to say, having had the chance to watch Denise train a couple of times now I feel exactly the same way. When you see somebody who is really incredible at what they do and you just get a chance to watch it's just, I mean, it's fascinating. I'm looking forward to camp again this year so much because last year…you get to watch, I mean, all the instructors at FDSA are so incredible, and to be able to spend a couple of days doing nothing but watch these incredible trainers do what they're best at, it's a really neat experience. Amy Cook: It really is. I change every time and I would have my lesson with Denise and then I would sit there and watch her do whoever came after me just to kind of watch what she did and go, how come what she's doing here isn't what I have access to in the pet world? I came from…I did pet dog training all of this time, my whole career, my whole life, pet dog training and behaviors in pet dogs, aggression and fear, stress, all that stuff, not really sports stuff. Sport I got into late and I just did for myself. And it's a whole different world. Pet dog trainers don't have access. It's almost two non-overlapping circles. It isn't quite true but it felt that way. When I watch a lot of…Shade is one of those people too, I watch her and I go, how come that wasn't something I could have learned when I was learning how to train dogs? That part is missing from the pet dog trainer education and I wish we were a lot more…I wish there was a lot more overlap than there is. I hope that's in our future. Melissa Breau: That makes both of us. So we got a little bit away from kind of what we were talking about originally, but that's okay. I think the conversation went good places. But I want to kind of bring us back for a second to the Bogeyman course. We talked through that a little bit but you also now teach the Management for Reactive Dogs class. So I wanted to give you a chance to tell us a little bit about how that course is different, and what that course covers, and kind of why you felt the need to add a second course. Amy Cook: Yeah. That course is different. I teach that as an adjunct or kind of a package, but I mean, you can jump in at either point, they're not sequential. Because when you live with a dog who has some troubles it's great that you can put aside time for therapy, and those therapeutic moments are really impactful, they really make a difference and that's all great. It takes time to do it though, and in the meantime you still have to potty your dog and you still have to get your houseguests in, right, and in the meantime you still have to drive somewhere. Life goes on. You can't stay under threshold. I have a way more conservative definition of threshold than most people do, so staying under it gets even harder if you're going with my definition of threshold. So that doesn't solve everybody's problem. That's great, you can go through Bogeyman but you can't potty your dog, right? So management class is for the times when your dog is going to be over threshold. Maybe not massively so, maybe not full on into the biggest display over, but worried, actually triggered by being scared, seeing somebody outside or seeing a strange dog, and it covers all of the strategies to get you through daily life. How do you get a positive leash walk going? What do you do when your dog barks at a window when someone is walking by the house? How do you get your dog outside without rehearsing the worst behaviors of their stress and their fear and their anxieties? I don't want anyone to worsen anything. Management is what you put in place first, you just say, how can I make sure nothing gets worse than it currently is? How can I relieve the pressure as best I can, keep everything as positive as possible, what skills do I need to do that? Once that's in place you're like, all right, now let me set aside some time for therapy to get at the root of this. So management is how you can get through your leash walks without getting your leash all tangled, how to feed in a way that keeps the dog's nose right on that cookie magnetically. I'm continually surprised that that's hard for us all because we're trained to keep the cookie off, it's not a lure, we're supposed to reward after. So a lot of little details that way, and the two together get you through kind of the problems you're having with your dog. I also teach a learning theory class but it hasn't been on the schedule for a bit, but I think that one is coming back too. So I do have three classes that I currently teach as well. Melissa Breau: Well, that's exciting. Do you want to briefly tell us what that kind of… Amy Cook: Yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking…yeah. I'm thinking of revamping that one. I do a learning theory class that's a bit of the basics to catch up, make sure we're all on the same page with operant and classical conditioning and how it works, what it's for. But I've been doing this for a long, long time, and there's a lot of interesting practicalities when using those models. There's a lot of overlap between the two models. There's a lot of times when you're not sure which one to use. So I wrote this class to be a practical introduction for people who had been trying this stuff. Like, I'm trying to use operant conditioning but this is the common thing I run into. I look for all the common pitfalls, all the holes, all the should I do this or that, because I've heard if I do that it's going to make this happen. I'm like, aha, glad you asked, I'm going to write a whole lecture on it. So it's sort of very practical, very nitty gritty, very what a dog trainer actually needs to know. Like, you really don't need to know all the schedules of reinforcement. All of you out there, if you studied all the conditioning models, you also studied schedules of reinforcement, but you don't really use them in real life, right? So I pared this down to the stuff you actually do every day of your life, and then we talk for fun about things like can dogs feel jealous or can dogs tell time, can they estimate things, what kind of a life does a dog lead inside their brains? We foray into that for fun. Amy Cook: But I'm currently revamping it a little bit. Melissa Breau: You can't dangle those two questions out there without giving us at least a brief answer. So can dogs feel jealous? Can they tell time? Amy Cook: Well, that's what we discuss, right? That's what we discuss. If you lay out the evidence for jealousy I think it doesn't pass. I think what they feel, and this is a guess, I'm not saying I have a fact, right, I think they feel a precursor to jealousy. I think they feel the thing that is like, oh, I want that, no, why does…I want. A very basic version of feeling upset and wanting that if it had more self-awareness we would be comfortable calling jealousy, because jealousy has this sense of she shouldn't have that and I wish I had the thing she had. It's got more layers to it. But just because it doesn't have the outer layers doesn't mean it doesn't have the core. So it's my guess knowing what emotions they do have and what emotions they don't have. They don't seem to have secondary, they do seem to have primary emotions. They probably don't have well developed jealousy but everything is a continuum and having a basic version of jealousy, it becomes a semantic argument. Like, maybe we would just call that jealousy then, why can't we just say that's what jealousy is in dogs and say they have it? You know? So we toss that around a lot. It's a class for talkers and thinkers and tweakers and people who like to debate back and forth about definitions. It's that kind of geeky class. Melissa Breau: That sounds excellent. Amy Cook: It's like me. Melissa Breau: Hey, it sounds pretty good to me. I'll have to take it next time it comes around. Amy Cook: You're welcome. Melissa Breau: So now that we've talked a little bit about that, I mean, looking at a puppy who doesn't necessarily have a fear issue, or you mentioned you did get Caper fairly recently, how do you kind of try to raise that puppy in a way or lay groundwork for that puppy in a way that really allows them to become a healthy adult dog so you don't see some of those issues crop up? Amy Cook: Yeah. It's been fun. Every puppy is this adventure gift, right? I mean, part of why her name is Caper is because we're on a caper, we're on an adventure together. You can think you have one thing when you meet your dog or when you get to know a dog and have something entirely else at any point. And you know, as Denise would say, you train the dog in front of you today, right? So I say great, I've started with a brand new puppy, she's not really a blank slate because we know nobody is really a blank slate, but she hasn't had anything really happen to her, but you know, really she's a dog that was found stray in the streets of Fremont and picked up and put into a shelter and then into a rescue, and she certainly has a history. So what's been really fun is using the sensitive tools I have now that I didn't have before, or you know, that you're always a better trainer this year than you were last year, right? Oh, boy. Please, God. You know, so I feel like she's the Fenzi puppy in a way because Marzipan kind of wasn't. I mean, she was, but this one, I don't know, this one feels like she really is. So I think of that and I think, who do I have today? Who are you today? How do you feel today? I get to keep asking her how she feels, and I feel like I can hear more clearly what her answer is than I have every felt before with other dogs. It's really exciting. She has her issues, we went through a season, her heat cycle and a false pregnancy, and maybe from that or maybe a kind of fear period, I don't know, where she was all of a sudden some other kind of puppy. I thought wow, okay, I don't have the puppy I had a minute ago. What do I have now? And it's been just, at times a not so fun challenge, but mostly a fun challenge while I figure out what her needs really are, and she's completely different. I mean, maybe everybody says this, I'm going to go back and see if you ask this of everybody or what people say now, but thinking of my last four dogs, not a stitch of similarity in any of them to each other, you know? Like, I'm going to get a dog who's going to be like this and we're going to do that. You get the dog and you're like, oh, hi, nice to meet you. Who are you? What _____ (43:30). You know? She's enormous fun and I'm taking a lot of time with her. I don't care. A lot of people would just…you know, there's this pressure in puppyhood to get a bunch of skills in because they're just so malleable and you can start all this stuff and they love to learn and all that is true, but I also know that I can teach an older dog, any dog those kinds of things, and the time in immaturity, the time when they're growing up is the time to actually smell the flowers, you know? To chase the actual butterflies, to let them take in the world without so much interference from my input and from training. We go out and we exist together. We see the world and I resist the urge to try to take advantage of every second and train all the fun stuff. It feels more holistic and it feels more like we're bonded in a way that it just feels richer because I'm spending so much time listening and asking her how she feels and what she'd like to do. She's just an n of one, we like to say. It's not like I can say, and that leads you to the best dogs in the world, because I don't know. It's her. But I feel like when she does then say yeah, I can work, I'm ready to work, the quality of the connection that we have is much, much better after I've let her. And I directly learned that from the stuff that Denise was investigating with Brito. I mean, it's really…I'm just so grateful she got a little dog before I did, you know? Next I want her to get a Border Collie so then I can get one of those. It's like, you do it first. Somebody pave that. I don't want to make that _____ (45:20). Melissa Breau: So we're nearing the end, unfortunately, so I want to ask you those big questions that are always some of my favorites. Amy Cook: We just started. I have so much more to say. I have so many more things. Melissa Breau: Well then, we'll have to have you back, that's all. Amy Cook: All right. Melissa Breau: So I want to ask you what the dog related accomplishment that you're proudest of is. Amy Cook: Oh, my. Well, right now that would be Marzipan who I guess I didn't talk too much about. I have a theme. I have a theme in my life where sometimes I get a dog and I think, yeah, I can just make her into that, I can do that, I'm a good trainer, I know what I'm doing, I can just solve that problem, no problem. And then I realize that I'm on crack and I don't know what I'm doing at all, and get in way over my head. I got a dog long ago named Hannah who was very, very fearful, and I didn't estimate correctly how difficult that was going to be, and it was really, really, really hard, but I got into it going, no, just a few weeks of clicking and I'll be fine. So when I get my Whippet, Marzipan, I had intended to get my main sport dog, I'm getting my dog, and I'm going to do all this fun stuff, and I get whippet, and she's not purpose bred, she was five months old, and she didn't really work, didn't enjoy it, and I thought, so what? I'm a trainer, I'll just train her to like that stuff. It was harder than I thought it was and of course therefore then a gift, right? It led me to people like Denise, it led me to people like Shade, it led me to understand that I don't know anything about drive building and need to actually learn from people who do. But we got…she's in master's level agility and she does very, very well, and she's fast, and she's connected, and she's focused, and she didn't start out that way, and it was really hard mostly because I didn't know. I was applying the tools I had and they weren't right. So I'm really, really proud that together we were able to find a key to her lock if you can say that, and that I was able to change enough, because I had to do all that work, I had to do all the heavy lifting. It's not on the dog, right? It's not on the dog to change. You have to be who the dog needs. I had to change the way I presented myself. She didn't like a lot of things I would like, a lot of the things I was doing were not the things for her. Through the help of Sandy Rogers and through a bunch of people we found a way to motivate her, found a way to make her love this, and I got a non-working bred off-breed to find a way to love and look forward to and perform well in agility, and I'm just really proud of that and I'm proud of her for sticking with me through my many, many late front crosses. Thank you very much. I'm really proud of her and I'm really proud of the teamwork we have. Melissa Breau: That sounds like it's totally a good thing to be proud of. It sounds like you guys worked really, really hard to develop it and she's come a long way. So that's awesome. Amy Cook: Yeah. I'm thankful for it. It's lessons to me, right? I'm grateful that I've been able to grow in this direction because if she were a really easy dog I might not have the skills that I have, right? So that's the upside to all those things. So I'm just very grateful. Melissa Breau: So potentially my favorite question every single episode, since we've had somebody quote you on the podcast, not to add any extra pressure. Amy Cook: Oh my goodness. Hi, Julie. Melissa Breau: What is the best piece of training advice that you've ever heard? Amy Cook: Well, you know, my advice, that's my…no. I'm kidding. That piece that I made up, that's the best advice ever. No. Gosh, remind me to tell you the story one day of how that lecture at camp came to be because it happened the night before, believe it or not. Two. Everybody else got two, so I'm taking two. Melissa Breau: Go for it. Amy Cook: So I'm just saying that there's two. One that really, really made a difference, has really impacted me, always stuck with me, was from Bob Bailey. He said observe your animal, observe your learner. And you know, maybe that doesn't sound so deep at first. Of course, you'll watch your learner and you'll learn what you need to know. But it solved so many little problems and so many things that get in the way of your training because you're not seeing who is actually right there in front of you. And the short example is that you have to teach a chicken to peck not just the circle, it's like a construction paper circle, and not just the circle, but the dead center of it. That's really harder than it sounds because they move very quickly and the speed it takes for you to see the chicken and then depress your thumb onto the clicker, by the time the sound is made the chicken is on its way back up from pecking. Melissa Breau: Right. Amy Cook: So you need to click, plan to click and start the clicking when the chicken is on its way down. So it took many lessons, I'm concatenating it for this reason, for you, but Bob had to give me little pieces over time. But it was I had to know what her head and her beak angle, and what she looked like when she was going to be pecking the center and decide before she got there that that was going to be a successful peck and then click that one. And instead I was looking at the peck, I was looking at where the peck landed and trying to click the correct ones. Instead you click on the trajectory toward. And if you don't know what your animal looks like, if you don't observe her really closely you can't tell which peck is going to be the one and therefore your click will be late and therefore you'll never train the chicken. It doesn't really happen, with dogs you can be late, it's all right, but chickens no. And I was teaching a dog to tug open a fridge and I had to call him because I kept not getting it right, I couldn't see what my problem was. I was clicking when she was tugging and it just wasn't getting more tugging out of it. And he asked me, “What does her neck look like when she's about to make the best tug, about to make the strongest contraction?” I'm like, “I wasn't looking at her neck.” “What were you looking at?” The tug in her mouth? Well, are you looking at the clench of her claws as she settled in to really get a good tug in? Click that. And in the matter of an evening she was tugging really tugging really hard and pulling the fridge open. You really have to look at who you have and not see what you want to see and not click or reinforce end products but reinforce process because it's process you're trying to often get when you're training. So that one stuck and made me a much more accurate and better trainer. Then my second is Denise in the sense of…I don't know if she boils it down, but in the way of attitude before precision, I'm sorry, yeah, attitude before precision where you feed cookies for attitude. If that behavior was incorrect you give a cookie anyway. I think a lot of times we as trainers get caught up in, I reinforce the right ones and I make sure not to reinforce the ones I don't want, and that's very engrained in us. So don't click or don't reinforce the incorrect behavior. She does it all the time. She's like, that isn't correct, but my dog tried, you know, cookies for attitude. When I first was aware she was doing that it made me a little nervous. It's like, you're going to get all this bad behavior in the mix. How is this going to work? But it works beautifully. It works beautifully. It keeps your dog in the game. She really helped me see that cookies for trying is not bad. How to handle a mistake is to reward it because your dog tried and was with you and you can just _____ (54:03) most of the cookies are for the right things, don't worry so much. Your learner has an emotional life and that's way, way, way more important than anything else. She codified it down into attitude over precision. It really centered me in my training a lot. So those are my two. Melissa Breau: Those two things, they feel like they have a lot in common, just in terms of kind of looking at the bigger picture of things, you know? Amy Cook: Right. Right. Exactly. It's very bigger picture, and I think clicker training, just for me, I shouldn't speak for anyone else, can get me a little too focused on minutia and make me forget the rest. So those were good for me to learn and to incorporate at this stage of my training. Melissa Breau: I certainly don't think you're alone in that. I mean, clicker training, it's all about splitting, and sometimes when you're splitting it's hard to hold both ideas in your mind at the same time, right? Amy Cook: Right. It's kind of like, wait, I'm splitting, but should I lump again? It's not lumping, it's splitting and wait…mixed metaphors. Forest. I'm splitting in the forest. Wait. Something like that, right? Someone listening can suggest something much more elegant than that because I've never been known for an elegant metaphor, I'll tell you that. Melissa Breau: So for this last one, who else, somebody else in the dog world that you look up to, and I'm going to push you not to name Denise since she's gotten named lots and we've talked to her lots. Amy Cook: No. You can't do that. I know, because I talked about her way too much. I didn't plan to talk about her constantly for the past hour, I promise you. Melissa Breau: I'm sure you have one or two that I'm not super familiar with. Amy Cook: No. No. No. It really isn't all about Denise, but I stand on the shoulders of giants, right? Everybody who has come before me is an influence on me, and everyone has taken their turn. I had a troubled dog years ago that I brought to everybody. Instead of doing some TTouch with her I brought her to Linda Tellington-Jones, you know? Like, I sought everybody I could find to help and to teach me, and I absolutely stand on their shoulders, all of them. I credit myself with nothing and them with everything except my own mistakes and however that phrase really goes. So since I can't name Denise I'm going to anyway. What I admire most…no, I'll be vague and we'll pretend I didn't mention her. What I admire most in a trainer I can look up to now is independent thinking. People will say there's nothing new in training, you know, it's all been done before it's just how we're repacking or talking about it differently. I don't think so anymore. I think there have been just a few people, at least on my radar, that are willing to challenge something that's supposed to be the way it's done and try it on dogs and not say, well, that's in the wrong _____ (57:12) or that's supposed to do this, that's going to make a dog do x, can't do that. Because I was that, that's how we all start when we're learning, we acquire the wealth and the wisdom of other people who say don't do it this way and please do it that way. So you do. And we can get a little lost in that sometimes. So I gravitate toward the independent thinker who isn't about I do it this way because this is the way we do it. I like people who say, I don't know, what would happen if I just give a cookie when he was wrong? Let's find out. I mean, yeah, of course it's going to make him a little confused, but I can fix that, I'm not worried about it. That kind of confidence of I'm an independent thinker and I don't do just what people do because it's what they do. I'm not terribly like that so I look up to it. I think Denise does that. Grisha also does that. And Donna Duford, I don't know if you remember her, also taught me that same way, and she was one of the early old school clicker trainers from the East Coast. There was a kind of East Coast/West Coast rivalry going on in the clicker training where early on, or at least I'm led to understand, I was a few years later, or I'll just say that there were people who replaced their methods, people that called themselves crossover trainers, who replaced things they did piecemeal, one at a time. I don't think this one works so I'm going to do this instead. Oh, this works better, oh, this is really great. Then there are people because they hear about a new system throw out everything they did before and try to put in the new fancy positive system that they're learning. I think when people have the courage to say, I'm just going to try this little piece and see how it goes, and they put in their system and they go, oh, I think I like this, this is pretty good, I'm going to investigate some other stuff, I'm going to try something new. I think from there comes the innovation. At least in my world, in the people who have been around me to influence me, there haven't been a ton of people doing that. So when I see that that really stands out to me. I fully admire it. I think Grisha did that when she just said, “I'm just going to see what happens when we do this.” I think Denise does that all the time. She's not beholden to the world of some _____ (59:27) training that says this is how you do it. She says, “Let's find out.” And I look up to anybody who can think independently, try stuff on their own, and just kind of stand their ground with what it is. Melissa Breau: I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit. I think that's exactly what you've done with The Play Way, is take a look and do something totally different. Amy Cook: Well, it's really what I'm trying to do. It's what I'm trying to do. I don't know that I bravely strike out so well, but I'm trying to because you know, we have to see things new ways, or we have to explore. If there's some other way people do it in some other traditions don't be afraid. If you're good enough at what you do, if you're sensitive enough with your learner, if you really are sure that you're not going to cause harm it's okay. It's okay to give a cookie for the wrong behavior, right, to use that again, because you're not causing any harm, so try and _____ (1:00:19). So that's I think where innovation will be found, and I think we get a little stuck, we're a little rutty a little bit in some positive training circles and some pet training circles, and I think it's time to see what…not to throw out things, but to enrich them with new experiences and new things from other thinkers. I don't know if I'm headed there but that's what I think about a lot. So thank you for that but I don't accept it. I reject your compliment and insert some self-deprecation of my own. You can't get me. I refuse. Melissa Breau: Well, I'm going to tell you that I think it anyway and you can choose to accept it or not. But they were sincerely given. Amy Cook: Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Melissa Breau: Well, thank you for coming on, Amy. I really appreciate you taking some time to chat. I know that you weren't feeling well earlier this week, so I'm glad we managed to reschedule and get this in there. Amy Cook: Thank you for your patience. I hope I don't sound too husky, I'm not extra sexy, I'm back to nerdy, but I had no voice _____ (1:01:28). I'm telling you people, I hope you understood everything, I didn't cut out. Melissa Breau: Well, thank you for coming on and thanks to all of our listeners for tuning in. We will be back in two weeks with Julie Flannery to talk about Rally-FrEe, and if you haven't already please subscribe to the podcast. You can do that in iTunes or the podcast app of your choice and you'll have the next episode of our podcast automatically downloaded to your phone as soon as it becomes available. Today's show is brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. Special thanks to Denise Fenzi for supporting this podcast. Music provided royalty free by bensound.com. The track featured here is called Buddy. Audio editing provided by Chris Lang, and transcription written by CLK Transcription Services. Thanks again for tuning in and happy training. CREDITS: Today's show is brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. Special thanks to Denise Fenzi for supporting this podcast. Music provided royalty-free by BenSound.com; the track featured here is called “Buddy.” Audio editing provided by Chris Lang and transcription written by CLK Transcription Services. Thanks again for tuning in -- and happy training!
www.DogCastRadio.comExpert dog trainer and TTouch practitioner Toni Shelbourne talks about her latest book Help! My Dog Doesn't Travel Well In The Car Solving Motion Sickness And Other Traveling Issues. Experienced veterinarian Deidre Chiaramonte explains how owners can best support their dogs through surgery. Lots of practical advice in this show to help with some stressful issues, and help make dogs' and owners' lives happier and healthier.
www.DogCastRadio.comExpert dog trainer and TTouch practitioner Toni Shelbourne talks about her latest book Help! My Dog Doesn't Travel Well In The Car Solving Motion Sickness And Other Traveling Issues. Experienced veterinarian Deidre Chiaramonte explains how owners can best support their dogs through surgery. Lots of practical advice in this show to help with some stressful issues, and help make dogs' and owners' lives happier and healthier.
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On this episode of Animal Instinct, host Celia Kutcher welcomes guest Karen Krueger to discuss the Japanese healing art of Reiki. Karen has been practicing Reiki for people and pets since 1997 when she was originally attuned to Reiki to help her horse. Since then, Karen has become certified in many types of healing modalities and is a certified Equine Body Worker through Equinology and the Upledger Institute. Karen is a practitioner in Quantum Touch, CranioSacral Therapy for people and pets, Chinese Energetic Medicine, TTouch for dogs and horses, and animal communication. Karen maintains two websites relating to Reiki for pets at ReikiGal and KruegerHorseTherapy.com. This program has been sponsored by Rolling Press. Music provided by PEELS. “Because it’s a universal energy, Reiki can be used for anything – imbalances in the body, mind, spirit.” [15:05] “It just goes where it needs to go, and it fixes what it needs to fix.” [20:10] — Karen Krueger on Animal Instinct
Our furry friends need high-vibe energy right now, too! Animals of all kinds are feeling the energy shifts around the world, and there are simple ways we can support them. In this special show, I'll share a few perspectives with you about our pets and what they need from us at this time, as well as how you can be conscious of your energy's affect on them - and vica versa. And the massage technique for dogs I was trying to remember (forgot the name!) is TTouch or Tellington Touch. Lots of YouTube vides on it! Molly McCord is a Consciousness Catalyst whose Spiritual Awakening began in 2002. She shares her gifts as a writer, author, intuitive, astrologer, messenger, and teacher in this weekly show. Discover more on her popular spirituality website, Conscious Cool Chic.com WOW! #1 on Amazon in Spiritual Self-help and Memoirs: Adventurers & Explorers ~ thank you, thank you! Celebrating over 10K FB likes ~ Woot, woot! Facebook Twitter
Our furry friends need high-vibe energy right now, too! Animals of all kinds are feeling the energy shifts around the world, and there are simple ways we can support them. In this special show, I'll share a few perspectives with you about our pets and what they need from us at this time, as well as how you can be conscious of your energy's affect on them - and vica versa. And the massage technique for dogs I was trying to remember (forgot the name!) is TTouch or Tellington Touch. Lots of YouTube vides on it! Molly McCord is a Consciousness Catalyst whose Spiritual Awakening began in 2002. She shares her gifts as a writer, author, intuitive, astrologer, messenger, and teacher in this weekly show. Discover more on her popular spirituality website, Conscious Cool Chic.com WOW! #1 on Amazon in Spiritual Self-help and Memoirs: Adventurers & Explorers ~ thank you, thank you! Celebrating over 10K FB likes ~ Woot, woot! Facebook Twitter
Rescue Guest Tiziana Wise https://www.facebook.com/tiziana.valentina.35 tells us why it is not good to post free dogs on facebook. Spanky is our pitbull animal rescue guest! He says "I want to find a home that keeps treats in their pockets" Panda the cat from Australia calls our radio show and says her mom "Mom can we go outside?" Monkey a Rotti from heaven calls our radio show, says he's coming back but "There aren't that many ways back, I wanna look just like me" Millie calling in from the other side, she says "I come to you all the time. My body couldn't hold me anymore." Talk of calming signals, TTouch and more... Laura Stinchfield - Animal Communicator with show producer Ai Kusuhara will interview interesting animals and their people. Laura will also open up the lines for listeners to call in to ask questions to their animals. Be prepared to be enlightened, amazed, to laugh and maybe cry as you are opened up to the inner lives, thoughts, and feelings of the world's animals. Laura Stinchfields official website is http://www.ThePetPsychic.com
WOW what a treat to welcome pioneer Linda Tellington-Jones, PhD (Hon) join Frank Ferrante and Keri Davis in this educational platform. Linda has her roots in a philosophy that sees all beings -- humans and animals alike -- as reflections of a Divine Whole. The Tellington Method was first created 4 decades ago as a system of animal training, healing and communication that allows people to relate to animals in a deeper, more compassionate way -- a way that furthers inter-species connection and honors the body, mind and spirit of both animals and their people. The Tellington Method utilizes a variety of techniques of touch, movement and body language to affect behavior, performance, and health, and to increase an animal’s willingness and ability to learn in a painless and anxiety-free environment. Linda's highly effective and revolutionary approach to working with animals brought her world wide recognition, and it was out of this success that Tellington Ttouch for humans has arisen. The method for horses, first developed in the 1970’s, is known as TTEAM (Tellington TTouch Equine Awareness Method). In the 1980’s, Tellington TTouch broadened to include the world of companion animals, developing techniques that deepen mutual trust and understanding and strengthen the human/animal bond. During this period, TTouch work was also introduced as an effective and valuable method to reduce stress in wild life rehabilitation and to enhance the well-being of animals in zoos. Keri Davis has trained through the Institute of Integrated Sciences, in the HUNA™ program (Humans Understanding Nature and Animals) which is based on the philosophy that all life is connected and cannot be separated.
The creator of TTouch, Linda Tellington Jones joins us once again! Linda shared some of her amazing stories with a wide variety of animals and, as as always, her healing TTouch. She also talked with us about cell memory, light, and natural communication with animals through touch and movement. More details on this episode MP3 Podcast - That Intuitive Touch - with Kim Bloomer & Jeannie Thomason
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