Ed Frawley of Leerburg goes positive??

• 09-27-2009 8:17 PM

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  spiritdogs Joined on 09-10-2007 Posts 11,729 Points 1,020

  Re: Ed Frawley of Leerburg goes positive?? Reply Contact Well, I, for one, am certainly glad to see this.  Now, if we could just get Ed to call Cesar... Regional Director for Massachusetts, International Positive Dog Training Association Director, SeniorCare Pawsitive Connections Program AKC CGC Evaluator #3669 Therapy Dogs, Inc. Tester/Observer Sioux, CGC, TDInc. Maska, CGC, TDInc. Sequoyah, CGC Fergie, Retired Lap Dog, Age 20 1/2 Dancer, CGC, TDInc. (1989-2006) #1 Heart Dog In memory of Mike, please become an organ donor today. "If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys." - Chief Dan George "The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be." ~ Konrad Lorenz

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• 10-01-2009 6:24 AM

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  poodleOwned Joined on 01-13-2009 Posts 112 Points 5

  Re: Ed Frawley of Leerburg goes positive?? Reply Contact spiritdogs: Well, I, for one, am certainly glad to see this.  Now, if we could just get Ed to call Cesar...   I think that you would have to do major door alterations for both egos to fit in one room.... I lost it a long time ago with Frawley when he did some Math that suggested that the method of tracking that i was using would require 28Kgs to get my dog to track 5-6 kms. Guess he never talked to me or my dog....or the many other dogs that would do it. Any one that dumb deserves ignoring..... It was the same as when i was sitting at my desk playing tug with my Lab and his dumb bell, and being told by a nameless guru that what i was doing wouldn't work, and would wreck my dogs retrieve. The humour of it all was just too much for me, i could barely speak... Never mind that it stopped his mouthing and in the next step i gave him the fetch the unboiled egg test ....           Tch Cadbury CDX (RIP) Tch Nascere Bella Nera CDX Ch Jenuin Constanine

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• 10-01-2009 7:39 AM

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  spiritdogs Joined on 09-10-2007 Posts 11,729 Points 1,020

  Re: Ed Frawley of Leerburg goes positive?? Reply Contact poodleOwned: spiritdogs: Well, I, for one, am certainly glad to see this.  Now, if we could just get Ed to call Cesar...   I think that you would have to do major door alterations for both egos to fit in one room.... I lost it a long time ago with Frawley when he did some Math that suggested that the method of tracking that i was using would require 28Kgs to get my dog to track 5-6 kms. Guess he never talked to me or my dog....or the many other dogs that would do it. Any one that dumb deserves ignoring..... It was the same as when i was sitting at my desk playing tug with my Lab and his dumb bell, and being told by a nameless guru that what i was doing wouldn't work, and would wreck my dogs retrieve. The humour of it all was just too much for me, i could barely speak... Never mind that it stopped his mouthing and in the next step i gave him the fetch the unboiled egg test ....       Ha ha, I love it when we can foil their attempts to prove that what we do sucks lol.  What I really enjoy more than that, though, is seeing my students' faces when Sequoyah comes to do a demo, and she learns a new behavior right before their eyes in about ten seconds flat.  That demo is always done after the "training game" where I ask a good sport to allow me to marker train him or her for a few minutes.  Then, they  understand how hard it is for the dog to figure things out, yet they see the dog happily trying to figure it out, without being coerced to do so. Regional Director for Massachusetts, International Positive Dog Training Association Director, SeniorCare Pawsitive Connections Program AKC CGC Evaluator #3669 Therapy Dogs, Inc. Tester/Observer Sioux, CGC, TDInc. Maska, CGC, TDInc. Sequoyah, CGC Fergie, Retired Lap Dog, Age 20 1/2 Dancer, CGC, TDInc. (1989-2006) #1 Heart Dog In memory of Mike, please become an organ donor today. "If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys." - Chief Dan George "The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be." ~ Konrad Lorenz

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• 10-15-2009 10:02 AM

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  AgileGSD Joined on 09-16-2007 Posts 1,034 Points 65

  Re: Ed Frawley of Leerburg goes positive?? Reply Contact  I am teaching a class at the local all-breed club and sure a man in my class has a very shy wGSD puppy. He was really happy that I use a marker word because the training DVDs he ordered from Leerburg use the same methods. I still associate Leerburg with old school methods in my head but it sounds as though he has changed for sure. It was neat to have a dog in class who already was familar with a behavior marker and it helped me be able to start working through her shyness issue the first night.

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• 10-15-2009 2:45 PM

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  Dog_ma Joined on 06-25-2007 San Diego County, California Posts 1,389 Points 860	Re: Ed Frawley of Leerburg goes positive?? Reply Contact Ha, Cesar could learn a lot from Frawley's old stuff, let alone his new attitude towards markers. Frawley has always fascinated me. His stuff on dealing with aggressive dominant dogs is decent imo. "Are you a dog trainer?" "No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night."
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