One of my professsional mentoring students asked me a question about counseling animals and I thought it would be helpful for you to know what I told her about this issue. She decided to try doing some counseling with a rescue dog who was fearful of all kinds of normal things like boxes and dark rooms. [...]
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The next virtual practice group is February 9th, Tuesday. There are three sessions, two require Skype, one is by conference call. The times are for California which is Pacific Standard Time (PST). If you are not sure what the time difference is between us check the world time converter to find out: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html The sessions [...]
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Check out these cool videos from a dog training group in Hungary. The group is nonprofessional, and is promoting a style of training they call Mirror Method, which is explained in the second video. The third video is dog day at the beach. Really fun group, well done videos and the dogs are having lots [...]
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It is hard to get it that animals really do understand us. It does not mean they will always respond accordingly but if you do the experiments you will get the results that prove to you this is real. Here is one example from a reader: I love reading your blog and was so happy [...]
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I just worked with a woman and her dog on a behavioral issue. The dog was running lure races but instead of going for the lure was jumping on the dog who was running next to her. I talked to the dog and found that she really wanted to win and she thought the best [...]
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Posted in just for fun, your questions on Aug 20th, 2009
A reader, Dianne, sent in this question: You asked for topic suggestions, and I have one. It’s been my experience as someone who can communicate with animals, that animals seem unusually drawn to me. I’d be interested to learn if that happens to other animal communicators, and what their experiences have been with animals “recognizing” [...]
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Posted in your questions on Aug 18th, 2009
No one seems convinced that Michael Vick is either reformed or contrite. Most people who wrote in on the subject felt that his activities in support of dogs are just so much window dressing. I am very much inclined to agree. I worked for a time at a battered women’s shelter and learned a lot [...]
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Posted in your questions on Aug 14th, 2009
There seems to be a question about whether it is OK to talk intuitively with an animal without permission from the animal’s person. Some say it would be unethical to do this. However, wouldn’t animals, like humans, have free will and the ability to refrain from talking to someone if they so chose? I wouldn’t go [...]
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