{"id":1279,"date":"2012-04-14T09:01:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T22:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2021-08-02T17:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:06:39","slug":"messages-for-dog-trainers-from-ian-dunbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/dog-behaviour\/dog-training-dog-behaviour\/messages-for-dog-trainers-from-ian-dunbar\/","title":{"rendered":"Messages for Dog Trainers from Ian Dunbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small><small>This post is part of the series in response to Dunbar&#8217;s 2012 Australian seminars. See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/aboutblog\/the-dunbar-index\/\">index<\/a>.<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n<p>There were a few gems of advice throughout the seminar on things dog trainers should acknowledge and do when working with clients.\u00a0 They can be summarized as:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you\u2019re working with an owner, don\u2019t get slugged down with data transfer, explaining things, and \u2018telling\u2019.\u00a0 Don\u2019t waste good dog training time talking about dog training, instead: Do some dog training!<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Use and promote the resources on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogstardaily.com\/\">DogStarDaily<\/a> (especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogstardaily.com\/training\/you-get-your-puppy\">Before You Get Your Puppy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogstardaily.com\/training\/after-you-get-your-puppy\">After You Get Your Puppy<\/a>).<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The \u2018best\u2019 method for dog training is normally the quickest, easiest, and most effective for a pet owner.\u00a0 (Explaining learning theory is normally not quick, easy, or effective.)<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The 6 Es of dog training: Easy, Efficient, Effective, Enjoyable, Efficacious (do its job but not produce side effects), Expedient (techniques should be suitable for pet owners).<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Use games.\u00a0 Games are fun, they motivate everyone (the dog, the owner, spectators, and the trainer).\u00a0 They allow a way for you to quantify a dog\u2019s performance without the \u2018pressure\u2019 of performing, and owners often comply more with games than standard instructions.\u00a0 (Owners will do almost anything for a ribbon!)<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Remember that the dog owner has zero years of experience and none of your dog training skills.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>To be successful in dog training, you need to be a people person \u2013 especially in order to motivate people to do what you ask.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Start taking stats on dog training &#8211; and use your stats in marketing and use them to motivate clients (it shows that their dogs are doing better!).<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Use \u2018the Bozo Game\u2019 to help you practice correct responses.\u00a0 The Bozo Game entails getting your dog training buddies together, and your goal is to create appropriate responses that keep the owner on side, despite the \u2018bozo-y\u2019 things they are saying.\u00a0 For example, \u201cI rub my dog\u2019s nose in it\u2019s mess when it poos inside.\u201d or \u201cI can\u2019t walk my dog unless I put it on a prong collar\u201d.\u00a0 Your job is to respond in a way that means you don\u2019t lose your client!\u00a0 (And the implications of that is, potentially, they\u2019ll use a trainer that is less refined as you, and the dog won\u2019t improve, and the dog may end up being euthanised.)\u00a0 Answers to these statements could be, \u201cIt must makes heaps of mess when you rub the dog poo into the carpet! I\u2019ve got a cleaner way for you to housetrain your dog.\u201d or \u201cAfter attending my classes, you might be able to find other ways to walk your dog.\u201d\u00a0 If you come up with an inappropriate response (e.g. \u201cYou\u2019re so cruel to your dog!\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019re an idiot!\u201d) then you have \u2018lost the dog\u2019 and lost the game.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Dunbar had messages for dog trainers in his recent Melbourne seminar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[424,12,284,425,164,11,426,256],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-training-dog-behaviour","tag-bozo-game","tag-dog","tag-dog-trainer","tag-dog-trainers","tag-dog-training","tag-dogs","tag-game","tag-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4952,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/4952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}