Guide dog training

[skinnydipper]

Excluding puppies, and some toy breed lines with hypoglycaemia, why would it? I appreciate the bloat concerns with bigger dogs, but the health benefits seem to be uniform across breeds [x].

GDV is a very real risk with large deep chested/barrel chested dogs.

I'll continue to feed twice a day.

I had a Rough Collie, deep chested breed, who also suffered from BVS and needed a late night snack.

 

[skinnydipper]

Excluding puppies, and some toy breed lines with hypoglycaemia, why would it? I appreciate the bloat concerns with bigger dogs, but the health benefits seem to be uniform across breeds [x].

"For now, dog owners should stick with their current regime, says Matt Kaeberlein at the University of Washington in Seattle. “Based on this study, we are not recommending that people make a change in the way they are feeding their dogs.”

Matt Kaeberlein is one of the authors of the study.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Almost as if varying science/research exists and that it can be applied individually to the dog in front of you/the application is modified as appropriate?

I think we all know by now that human children in a classroom do not all learn in exactly the same way and respond differently to different teaching methods, I think it is fair to say that it can be the same for animals.

 

[Widgeon]

My 40 years of guide dogs and good friends

The BBC's Ian Hamilton has had seven guide dogs who have all been good friends and a way of breaking down barriers.

www.bbc.co.uk

On a related note, a nice article from this BBC journalist about the guide dogs he's had over the years. It really makes me worry about the consequences if Guide Dogs can't get the current problem sorted out.

 

[twiggy2]

OK, the training that I had with imdt, clarified that for them positive training is training that delivers something, it can be food, a stroke, a smack or verbal correction so it can be both good and bad for the dog.
Negative training takes something away so, removes a toy, an uncomfortable feeling again both good and bad for the dog.
Talk about try and make things confusing...
The idea that positive training is nice for the dog and negative is not is so much easier and is what most people think of.
The idea that positive training is always one step ahead of the dog so you teach the dog to do the correct thing in every given situation is great but means no slacking ever when you are with your dog, so you don't ever allow it to do the wrong thing- lovely idea and you would end up with a great dog and relationship with it, far from achievable in my eyes.
Many people with working dogs or dogs that are highly trained in one discipline kennel or crate their dogs so the dog cannot make the wrong choices when it is not supervised.
For me it's more about training the dog in front of you, some are softer than others, some are more self pleasing than others, some more aloof etc etc. I would love to be able to adapt to every dog I have and as a trainer it is so much easier to put your training head on to train to a certain dogs needs for a set amount of time, living with dogs that you don't click with on that wave length is so much harder.