Dog Star Daily is partnering with James & Kenneth Publishers to present our Scientific Adviser and sometimes blogger,
Dr. Ian Dunbar's U.S./U.K. 2010 & 2011 lecture tour. The tour includes seminar dates for his hotest seminar topic,
"Science-Based Dog Training With Feeling" and three all new 4-day Dogs with Dunbar Academies.
After many years of concentrating on spreading the word about modern, easy, efficient, and effective pet dog training methods all over the globe. Ian has returned stateside and to his homeland, and here's why:
"After reflecting on 40-years of dog training, it has become very clear to me that there are still many basic aspects of husbandry and training that we continue to neglect. And this is holding back dog training.
One thing that is often misunderstood, still needs to be addressed, is the notion of non-aversive punishment. It is certainly the secret for response-reliability and can be done without fear or pain and without the continued need for training aids, such as, leashes, collars, lures, toys, clicks and treats.
Compliance without Coercion. In our new learning theory, a total re-evaluation of punishment offers an improved quality of life for dogs and their owners. Many trainers don't punish because they think that punishments must be scary or painful. However, without binary feedback, you won't have absolute reliability on those few occasions when it is essential. Other trainers use many aversives while training because they think that punishments must be aversive in order to be effective.
Now certainly in the laboratory, computer-inflicted punishments had to be aversive.
However, not so when we humans train or teach. When we use language to instruct and give feedback, we literally transcend the old learning theory. Not only can we clearly instruct dogs what we want them to do, we may also instructively reprimand them to quickly get them back on track when they err. And most important, instructive reprimands may be given in a soft calm voice. Think of teaching a child to read or play baseball, or teaching a spouse how to dance."
This is just a tiny taste of what's on the menu of this seminar series, check out the 2010/2011 appearance schedule if you'd like to take a bigger bite!
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