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Hallelujah! I've been preaching that gospel for years

I could give you a dynamite list of people however they may be too busy or too expensive. I would love to say yes, but it would greatly depend on time and location as I don't have the luxury of lots of time, however it does sound interesting and it would be fun.

This is a valid point that I always pass on to anyone interested in listening. A trainer should be given merit by the results they can achieve both with the handler and the dog. They should have a good undestanding of all breed charecteristics and behaviours and they should have good working knowledge of all breeds, not just 1 or 2. There are thousands of good trainers and very few great ones and the old saying says that the enemy of great is good.

felix would be a good choice but i believe he is competing in some upcoming FCI and fmbb competitions, i dont fancy your chances in getting ed out but would be worth a shot you never know.. just throwing a few names around of Australian based IPO trainers. Danny Jagodic - Working Malinois breeder (he is the breeder of felix ho's dog) danny is a former military dog handler from holland he set up australias first KNPV training club. experienced in training dogs for all protection sports and detection work Dennis Gallacher - Working German Shepherd breeder former military dog handler from the UK responsible for setting up Schutzhund in Australia responsible for bringing the best working line shepherds to Australia if you would like for an IPO trainer from outside of aus tho i would be able to help you out ETA: what do you want the seminar to cover? Kris kotsopoulos would be a better choice

Flames Daddy, you crack me up dude! I've never seen anyone so obsessed with their dog :rolleyes:

OK. I have a handy $800.00 spare as it seems I am not attending Mrs UK Spice (or is it a herb) seminar. $800!! I mean, REALLY! Some people are just plain desperate aren't they? Buy her book for $40 odd bucks. I'd give 10 people a lecture a fraction of that price and they come away better for it. Back on topic. Thanks to all those that responded to the thread. Very much apprecitaed getting your comments.

He should Lablover! He's extremely busy all the time though which is a damm shame. I'll keep working on him though

Well you would certainly be hard pressed to find a better lecturer in Australia for dog related issues and the canine mind than Boyd.

Very sorry to hear of your loss

Excellent feedback guys. Keep it comming

Is that the "Training in Drive" by Gotfried Dildei and Sheila Booth? It's a great book, one of many in my personal library

Agreed

Yes that's what I would classify as thin nerves. It's probably a critical period issue in that the dog was exposed enough during the 6 to 16 window, therefore it has trouble coping in new environments. Does the dog recover or does it continue to have trouble?

Hi guys, I'm curious to know what some of you guys thought about the course by asking what were your favourite topics and why? Who were your favourite instructors and why? What did you get out of the course?

It's easy to say, ban the correction chain when you may have a dog that will never require one. Banning in these tools is clearly a knee jerk reaction once again to individuals emotions on how, "THEY" feel about them. It seems that sensible people are suggesting education as banning always leads to the snowball effect. I have a list of devices that i'm not a great fan of , however I will not run off half cocked to raise a people's army to have them banned. It's not the answer

Well I have to say, after I re read that I kind of blushed Fear not loyal readers, it went no where near there

Ok, so the fact that I'm an electrician by trade and have a working knowledge of electronics that must account to a resonable ammount of credibility for my long arms Being belted a few times by 240 v and even once almost fatal by 415v I could give you a living testimony on what's horribly painful and what's merely unpleasant as I have shocked myself many times on several sensitive locations with an Ecollar. I would be willing to bet, as others have put it that many people who voice an opinion have never really had any field education, they just don't like it and that's enough evidence for them. If people don't like seeing suffering in animals, then for gods sake, don't own one as there will be some kind of suffering and torment that the animal will have to endure by coexisting in a human environment. It's not all roses and sunny days like everyone portrays in their happy snaps! Silly stuff like scientific fact and evidence seem to have no place in an emotive society In closing, I might just add, like it's been said many times before, any equipment in the hands of the idiot or the ignorant are indeed dangerous, exactly like opinions.

I have had the honor of meeting some of the nicest, most generous & brillant minded people through the dog community and on the other end of the spectrum I have had, (as have others) the misfortune of meeting, destructive, mindless individuals who have failed in life so miserably that they rely on their animals or the generalisation of animals to bring about laws and more laws so someone will take notice of them. Many of these people are polititions mind you, the greasiest, most two faced, deceitful people on Gods good Earth! Sadly, there are many idiots out there and they too vote and have the right to their opinion which they seem to have a lot of time to do as the good folks are too busy being productive and sensible. Why don't you all watch the movie, V for Vendetta. It's where we are headed.

Nekhbet, you're wasting a good argument!

It was a great example of how a stable dog should react. She passed with flying colours

exactly! What is this world comming to! Introduce a new law, people make a little fuss then roll over on it, make a new law etc. The dog training world is pitiful with all the half cocked mums clubs and the laws that keep getting introduced are a appauling. Political correctness is rife in the world and it's making people nervous and mistrusting of one another

Easy $8000. Oh well, good on her

There seems to be some confusion amongst a few people regarding nerves so I will explain an example of how nerves should function in the dog. When I first started training dogs professionally, I was training service dogs, security and protection dogs. We never had an issue if a dog had a reaction to a sight or sound providing the dog could recover. By recover, I mean that the dog could identify that it was just a brief interruption that means nothing and get on with the job at hand. To give a further example of this, when I used to work my own dog in security, if we were focusing on a threat and he heard something behind us, I would expect him to look as it may an additional threat. If not, he would continue to focus on the most immediate threat at hand. If he heard the sound which turned out to be nothing and could not function properly then he would have a recovery issue which would put both our lives in danger rendering the dog unsuitable for work. Thin nerves don't just affect recovery, they affect the health and well being of the dog as well. To hopefully put this to bed, reaction is fine providing the dog can get over it.