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Envoi looks a very happy boy :)

Interesting thread. It does seem to be a bit 'my (SY?) way or the highway' from some quarters. Just because someone is successful...

I absolutely agree - they can become habituated to the process in some training scenarios, and if taking food is part of that habituated...

It is very very rare for someone to use no pressure and release at all. Rein aids are pressure and release Leg aids are pressure and...

The R doesn't stand for reward, it stands for reinforcement. R+ is ANYTHING that gets added to a learner's environment that they find...

Most people do, you'd have to be really stoney hearted to diligently remove R+ entirely from your repertoire with animals. It is also...

You probably do, you just don't realise and/or name it. If the reward is that the animal gets your affection or attention as a result...

Why the incessant demands for people to explain what they would do, either in a given or rather strange hypothetical situation? Telling...

His approach to the dog isn't much different psychologically to his approach with horses though tbh. The cob video up thread was put in...

Poor thing does not look happy. Why are we acting like it's this guy or nothing? Or this guy or R+ or nothing? These are not the only...

Not post the video, I would guess. But that is a sad thought. Dangerous horse dangerous horse dangerous horse is the refrain, when any...

How would you have "dealt with" (what a lovely turn of phrase) the dog in this video then @paddy555 ? Horse-wise you seem to be implying...

I’m surprised someone who owns dogs isn’t concerned about what happened in the gap in filming when the dog went from owner to SY for the...

Puke. Will this dog be PTS if it doesn't learn to be respectful and walk nicely in 2 hours tho.

There’s a whole thread on that one somewhere