#balanced dog training

[mephorash]

ppl hear shock collar and imagine a dog surrounded by whitecoats going "administer the shock" and a large lever gets flipped and you hear ZZZT and the dog yelps

#buzgie ❁ #balanced dog training

[caninections]

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#dogblr #real dog training #dog agility #mondioring #dog obedience #clicker training #balanced dog training #force free dog training #dog welfare #dog #igp #new podcast #new dog podcast #new podcast alert #canicross

[abirddogmoment]

I forgot to do a Week 4 Recap post this week but she's crushing it.

#dogblr #rory borealis #she's honestly turning into such a cool little dog #we focused more on cooperative care and conditioning this week #since it was xmas so i wasnt motivated to go out #anyway we started pivots balancing exercises and proper positioning for square sits #also worked on combing clipping and nail grinding #this week's victory was really good name recognition and learning to ask for things (food training outside snuggles) #next week's goal is more neutrally around pinecone and starting on polite greetings (all four feet on the floor) #she has her last set of vaccines and starts one of her puppy classes and has a puppy grooming session #im excited to see what she learns from them

[darkwood-sleddog]

Can the balanced dog trainers please stop fucking talking about positive reinforcement as if those dogs are not “obedience trained”? A majority of competition obedience dogs I know were trained with R+. Letting your dog wander on the end of a line because you want to do so does not = untrained. It is simply…a choice.

#dogblr #dog training #I try to hear both sides and follow a diversity of people but this really stands out to me #1.) balanced means using multiple quadrants. positive reinforcment is part of that #2.) balanced trainers come off really insecure in their own philosophy when they do stuff like this #you should not have to put down other dog owners and trainers to elevate yourself #if you have to do this constantly there is a problem #the reality is to me so many of these people scream ‘I’m important and smart look at me me me!’ #the equating of r+ as = untrained in these circles is wildly prolific #‘I fixed this former r+ dog that was reccomend for BE!’ #acting like all r+ people are the inexperienced pet folks who have taken a single puppy petsmart class #and not a wide variety of individuals with varying abilities #meanwhile how dare r+ and force free people put THEM in the same box as abusive aversives using people #it’s just…how do these people have time to be like this #like shouldn’t you be training dogs? #every time people talk poorly about positive reinforcment I want to take them to a zoo #the hyenas do cooperative care with positive reinforcement #the tigers wolves and bears and other large dangerous animal too #your domestic dog is not different or special or in any way more in need of aversive treatment

[blueboyluca]

why are there so many women in the dog training hobby and industry that are quite willing to support macho male trainers

#like I know why but it's fucking gross #“balanced” dog training is painful to interact with on so many levels

[pawsitivevibe]

Experienced dog sports people can be so fun as students because we can work the nitty gritty details, but honestly I think teaching pet owners with their first dog is my jam.

#new people joined my hoopers class of experienced dog sports handlers and like I think I managed to balance the class well for them? #anxious reactive little doodle with hardly any training but she did SO GOOD #And I'm really pushing the 'this is buildinf her confidence and engagement' thing #because newbies do need to hear how this is actually helping their dog in day to day life even though it's a sport

[bokatan]

forgot to post this here a few days ago, but anyways I’m so happy with how far Lucy’s training has come🥹 I was iffy about adding a prong collar due to how sensitive she is, but it seems like it’s made a huge difference in communication. She’s at a point now where I can walk her past prey animals like ducks, noisy/reactive dogs, etc and she’s still listening to voice cues and able to focus back on me rather than getting fixated and lunging or screaming because she’s frustrated. We’re also shifting more to working on a long line or retractable leash to hopefully get her to a point where she can be off leash safely. She did a great job at a park today, I had her on a retractable and her recall was pretty good even with lots of distractions. She also got to go swimming for the first time this year and she had a blast jumping up and down riverbanks and running around in the river

#bo.txt #dog training shenanigans #lucy #my pets #it still blows my mind that the balanced training we’re doing now is less adversive than the ‘positive only/force-free’ training we did #she’s so much more confident and excited to participate now that we have clear boundaries and communication

[judasisgayriot]

- You don’t know everything about me, Nathan. But I do know everything about you. And I know what you’re capable of. - You think I’m a mass murderer? I can’t accept this.

#heroesedit #primatech #heroes nbc #heroes #anni edits #nbc heroes #nathan petrelli #angela petrelli #im back with the heroes content that literally no one asked for bc its not abt characters anyone seems to care about #but I do so gimme those 3 notes baybeee!!!!! loool #rly tho just. how viscerally uncomfortable nathan looks throughout this entire scene #angela revealing yet again that she's been lying to him about everything #right at the last minute to throw him off balance #of COURSE angela knows about the whole thing and is in fact ORCHESTRATING it #and what is nathan if not a trained dog following his parents' orders? #angela continues to be creepy and manipulative - another instance of the petrelli family's relationships being majorly messed up!! yay!!! #i just. ugh they're fascinating #also Nathan does NOT want to do this but to angela it's so not his choice lol. That's my boy. you do what you're told don't you. #(screams) nathan petrelli #you know??? #heroes season 1

[girlhorse]

fr id be so sad if i had to cut enzos hair down but if i cant get my shit together soon that might be what has to happen until im in a better/more stable position. part of it is that it keeps getting Longer and so i have to groom more frequently and for longer sessions. this is also the most harrowing time in a havanese dogs life (around 9-18 months) when theyre 1) dealing with adolescence and 2) have a chance of having a very difficult coat change (blowing puppy coat and developing the undercoat, which in non-shedding breeds can cause some messy, easily matted hair!)

as a result enzo has been losing a lot of confidence on the grooming table and is less tolerant of it. He's not getting pissy or biting at all, just wiggly and low key stressed, which sucks bc he needs to be up there for me to deal with his crazy teen hair =_= The crazy hair is making him even Worse because sometimes theres a bit of a mat i need to get out (at this point i have been clipping them out to avoid causing him discomfort)

it's also spring, which means theres a ton of burrs and seeds everywhere, and the grass is growing tall. so every time we go outside he gets so many little things in his hair. it's a nightmare sometimes LMAO

#gab gabs #literally got a little reel mower so i can at least cut down the grass in my yard #i hate grass but i have a landlord #pray for me #we are working on some cooperative care techniques and handling exercises #but no one ever talks about how youre supposed to keep up with hair maintenance consistently when training isnt finished but your dog has #urgent and ever present grooming needs #this is probably why so many havanese breeders and showdog people use a more balanced and non R+ approach #no ones out here punishing their dogs its more like #they do NOT go cooperative care route #they use very light force #its not cruel but it can be hard for some dogs and owners (me) to adjust to #but i do think cooperative care is pssible im just not a great trainer #also fwiw all the breeders i know do praise and treat their dogs and will not push a dog that is having a major panic attack. they just #set expectations for the dog to hold still and be mostly passive and not interfere with the groom #and usually dogs are rewarded after! #also most of them consistently groom from puppyhood onward which means theyre more likely to be accepting of the process as they age #my dog has always been a little uncomfortable with it but he was getting better #just a bit of a teenage regression #SORRY FOR RANT LMAO

[bitchfitch]

I might be getting a service dog next year (a friend has an AKC registered lab who's a pet due to an injury but who's dam was a hunting dog and the sire a service dog, and the planned sire is a service dog and has already had pups who proved out as good service dogs. and she offered to let me buy one of the puppies from her for cheap because she's a really good friend) . Which is exciting and would be a massive help because a service dog prospect puppy can cost thousands just for the pup with no training and you'll be on the waiting list for years before its even born. but the price tag on getting this pup trained is giving me palpations lmao.

That might be what gets me to finally e-beg El oh el.

#the specific combination of POTS and my bad joints mean that when something ends up on the floor #it just has to stay there until im well enough to get down to grab it. which is bad and sucks. #my bad balance is also a massive issue but i dont think i could train a dog to help with that on my own #and the panic attacks those arnt fun but idk how much a dog would help #and getting up and down is rough and i get thunderclap migranes a lot so having a dog who can hit the light switch would be really nice #and making sure its trained to be nice to my cats is a priority #both of my cats like dogs so long as the dog is nice to them #and like i get why service dog training is expensive and im not complaining about that #im complaing about not having the money for it #honestly as long as the dog can pick things up for me an not knock me over when we go for walks and like #be cool sleeping int the van with me then i think itlll be fine #hopefully only having a few sorta basic things it needs to do will help cut down on the price

[sheepdog-and-fakegoldenretriever]

Comparison of a self described unique training style dog trainer adding aversive stimulus on walks. This dog was **fixed** in 1 whole week apparently.

Before training with aversive trainer.

Dog pulling on lead and zig zapping. Sure we want that improved so the dog does not do this especially around a stimulus, but overall relaxed body ears forward, relaxed mouth panting, medium to high tail base and not shown was the dog sniffing and engaging with environment. Able to react to stimulus that make it uncomfortable by barking.

After aversive training and equipment added

Ears pinned sideways, low tail base, stiff body carriage, whale eye, tight mouth panting, lots of lip licking, ignoring stimulus it was previously reactive to. Overall this dog is pretty shut down and unable to make any choices.

#idk why people keep doing this to dogs #like a shut down dog is a loaded fucking Canon bro #seriously what tools has this trainer given the owner when the dog reacts again? #nothing #seriously #makes me fucking mad #dog training #balanced training

[darkwood-sleddog]

Idk man but “lip licking and yawns” do not = working hard to me.

#dogblr #dog training #so called balanced trainer bs #the dog did not look enthused or happy to be doing work #like I know we all want our dogs to enjoy the work their ancestors did #and this was this dog’s first time pulling a ca #*cart #but you HAVE to make it fun and positive #especially if your dog is not particularly driven #this guy is just lucky his dog is a more biddable carting breed #my malamutes would not stand for this unfun behavior #they’re unionized lmao

[daisy-aboudi-dogtraining]

i didnt pay enough attention to details so it  messed up her behavior big time,  no you will not barge through, now we are working on this from the beginning and there’s already a huge change

#attention to details is super important in balanced dog training

[bringbackgoth]

Even 1 year ago if you had asked me if Cosima would be mature and stable enough to guard me on the porch with only verbal recalls I would have laughed in your face.

Biting the proverbial bullet and getting an ecollar is what has lead us here. 98% of my training with this collar is on vibration only. And it’s lead to times like this where I’ve helped her understand a threat from a neighbor - she’s watched 3-8 people going from the house across the street to the house on the corner (and vice versa) and was Alert, but no growling and still laying down, I’ve taught her who is a neighbor and so she knows them. She might not trust them but she knows them.

As soon as someone stopped their car and dropped off a stranger she was “posting up” at the edge of the stairs. Still no growling, just watching.

This is exactly what I wanted in a dog. Wary. Suspicious. But discerning.

There are so many times I felt like I failed her and yet at the end of the day she’s perfect. An exemplary picture of her breed. I love this dog so much.

#cane corso #balanced training #protection dog #my pets #Cosima #yes she wears her ecollar when not in the house #I live with my mother and she’s 68 years old and we must have this as a contingency #that being said the vibration is pretty much the only thing we use

[louistonehill]

A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. 

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.   

AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond. 

Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows. 

Continue reading article here

#Ben Zhao and his team are absolute heroes #artificial intelligence #plagiarism software #more rambles #glaze #nightshade #ai theft #art theft #gleeful dancing

[sanguine-tenshi]

My parents moved into a house and their weirdo dog refuses to shit in the yard.

#dog #dog things #like i don't even know man #he just has to shit out in the city #his favorite spots are in front of the bank and anywhere near the church #and listen i don't believe in reincarnation #but his toilet habits do give me pause #and it's not like we trained him to do it either #he just refuses #this isn't his weirdest habit either #no the weirdest part was him balancing on his front paws back when one of his back paws was injured