Here is a fantastic video for our analysis, provided by dog trainer and blogger, Aki Yamaguchi, or "BCNerd" (love the name!). In it you'll see three dogs, one an adolescent with the typical over enthusiasm for his age. There's lots I can't wait to say about what is going on here, but I'm going to tape my mouth shut and let anyone who would like to play use it as an exercise in observing and describing behavior. (Lots of you loved the idea of us watching and analyzing videos together, which I'm thankful for, because I love doing it too.) If you want to respond with a comment, and I hope you do, I suggest that you include : 1) An objective description of what is happening. Practice making clear, detailed observations about what you are actually seeing. Hold off on making any Read More
The Texas Two-Step
What a great time we've had the last two nights: I had the pleasure of doing a fund raiser for the Austin Humane Society in Austin Tuesday night, and for the Animal Defense League of Texas in San Antonio last night. Both nights had fantastic turn outs and raised lots of money for good causes. By the way, please please please check out the website of the Austin Humane Society. This is what I shouted in my office, months ago, when I first found it: "You guys, you guys, you HAVE GOT TO COME SEE THIS!!!" A few hours south of Austin, the newly formed San Antonio Pet Trainers Alliance (all progressive trainers, and as nice a group as you can imagine) organized the San Antonio event and donated all the money to the Animal Defense League. You can learn more about the Alliance by writing Read More
Can Dogs Tell Stories? The Question
I'm working on a section of my new book right now about stories; about how stories are integral to the way we humans make sense of the world. Story telling is so important to people that to some, the ability to tell them defines us as a species. One writer asked "Who would we be without stories?" Even young pre-verbal children begin to tell stories with their hands, and good parents not only tell stories to their children, they help them learn how to tell them themselves by alternating statements and questions: "And then what did the little duck do?" Our stories are both a blessing and a curse. We can use them to navigate through the challenges of life like past or current heroes (think Odysseus and Harry Potter), and they can bind us inside boxes that both contain and constrain us ("I Read More
Better Together DVD Combo
I promised I'd send this out in a blog when it was ready, so here it is for those of you who've been asking for us to do another DVD combo. We put together our two best selling DVDs in a package. Through this Friday the 17th, you can order a PACKAGE of Lost in Translation: How Dogs use Sight, Sound and Scent to Communicate and Treating Dog-Dog Reactivity and save $20. Spoiler alert to those out of the US: ARGH, although Katie has been working non-stop on it for 3 weeks now, we still can't get our new website to manage the postage for international shipping. We've made progress and have hopes (springing eternal) that we can soon, but please be patient. We can't be trying any harder than we are already! MEANWHILE, back on the farm: Lots to tell you on Friday about life on the Read More
eBooks Available!
The rock stars at my office (that's Katie and Lisa and Denise) have made all the books that we publish, from The Puppy Primer to Feisty Fido, available as eBooks. You can learn more about ordering them by going to the website at PatriciaMcConnell.com. You can download them onto your Kindle, your Nook, your computer, your iPad and your forehead for all I know (okay, maybe not). I'll be writing my usual weekly blog tomorrow, but I wanted to get the word out about this now because, well, we've been working on it a long time and it's great to have it all working and the books available in this form. Enjoy! Read More
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