The Canine Paradigm

How trainers make you see their content is an enlightening discussion as Pat shares his experiences working within a marketing company. During that time, he reveals the strategy that social media algorithms use to encourage more views and longer time spent on the page.

This is why we see trainers stepping outside their profession and spending more time being a performer than a trainer and making outrageous content. Many of them ar...

The 2022 Dutch rudder circle jerk follows in the traditions of our end of the year wrap up. There have been many highs and some lows for many of our community which have been shared either through episodes, in our forum and in person.

we would like to thank all of the people in our community who made the year better and held each other up and supported each other. It’s also been great to see better people joining our circle and t...

Perfection is paralysis when you find yourself unable to take a leap at anything in life until it’s perfect. This is why we see so many younger people fail to launch as they feel whatever they do, must be perfect.

It really is disheartening to see paralysis prevent talent from taking form in the dog training industry. It’s worse to know that paralysis came from fear of letting their mentor down.

However, a new year is upon us and...

Real life problems with fictional solutions is how the world is working to solve some of the problems owners are having with dogs. Yes, we ranted in this episode as we can foresee a future that for many dogs was successful, will now not be. People who are upheld in the community are giving fictional advice while contradicting their own practices.

Trainers who misquote, mislead and misunderstand tools are continuing to create ficti...

You really don’t understand dogs at all when you appear to believe that training a dog is the same as training a marine mammal. Yes there are comparisons. Yes we have learned many great concepts from marine mammal trainers. However, if you still think it’s the same, then you most certainly don’t understand.

Furthermore, what people fail to understand is the implications that training tool bans are going to have on dogs. It’s fri...

3 biggest mistakes new dog owners make is a headline based around one of those social media posts where someone dances and points at brief answers. We managed to almost make an hour and a half show on some of the points we felt needed open discussion on some of those mistakes.

Speaking of mistakes, we also found that we have no standardised language which attributes to handlers and trainers adding to the list of mistakes during con...

Incompatible behaviour & positive punishment is a topic from a quote that we posted on our instagram some months back. The quote was from Dr. Susan Friedman and it says.

“The key question is not, how do I stop this problem behaviour? Rather, the question is, what do I want the animal to do instead, then teach it.”

It’s a good quote with plenty of merit. There are many who have taken it and have inferred that in order to do th...

Lessons from the tantrum came from an actual full scale, first off tantrum that Pat’s second son Axel had. According to Pat, it was of epic proportions and it gave him some perspective on how his dog must feel when he is confused about a situation and doesn’t have the ability to effectively communicate it.

Any good educator will always consider the teachable moment, even in an unfavourable moment. Even a child’s tantrum, which mo...

Cam Ford & the scent detection avengers is another great episode that we got to have in person with our great friend, Cameron Ford.

Although the wonderful team of doctors and specialists that presented at the Australian K9 scent detection conference were not with us, we got to think about and discuss their wonderful work.

The scent detection world is so diverse and wonderfully eclectic that it deserves and demands peer review ...

Jas Whiting raising working puppies is the long awaited update on what our great friend Jas has been up to. Even though we see her regularly there's been a lot of time between pod-cast catchups. Also, Jas has been doing a bunch of amazing things. Kicking ass in the BJJ scene, lecturing at conferences, doing seminars, keeping up GRC training and more. Safe to say that Jas has been doing some amazing things and keeping he...

Marketing and the low hanging fruit is an inspired conversation from one of Larry Krohn's online posts. Larry was exceptionally disappointed when a colleague came into the chat and made some confrontational comments. This aside, it raised some interesting notation on social media marketers versus their actual ability as a trainer. Multiples of conversations have been had on our platform and others about the effectiveness o...

Without the cookies, I'm just a monster is a part of a bigger story that developed from a listeners question on our discussion forum. It came about when we discussed how people can carry a burden for so long, that when given an option to lose it, they are scared of who they are without their cookies, or bad behaviors. The majority of the story is talking about the potential of poisoning reinforcers, (food) when connecting d...

The evils of cherry picking information have been more evident in social media posts where agenda driven lunatics are trying to destroy a target. Politicians are amongst the worst of the cherry pickers, especially around election times. They are also amongst the least trusted people in the world. Cherry pickers are trying to direct the attention of many people onto the focus of one or several people. However, they may need to...

What do you want to do with your dog? Have you planned it all out or is it still pie in the sky at this stage? Did you buy a companion only to find you have a drive monster or did you get a dog for a sport only to discover it not what one of you want? While many are happy with a coach potato, some want that dog with the V8 engine. However, some of the V8's pay for their energy with their life. Further details looking...

The new puppy and the baby trainer is an episode covering Birdy O'Sheedy's new puppy, PAX and how she is doing with him. It's also about Pat's experience with a baby trainer when Axel was having sleeping problems. Birdy is an experienced dog owner from having her time with Luna, however she has never raised a puppy before. Now her and Dan are experience a different life with their new baby, Pax the Labrador so ...

Intuition versus learned from others was being discussed in an on-line forum and there were some interesting back and forth comments which sparked good conversation. So what's right? Do trainers have intuition from the beginning or do they always learn from a skilled mentor. If we are talking about intuition, what does that even look like or feel like to those who have it? How did your mentor learn when they got into the...

Be a monster, an absolute monster and the learn how to control it. It's a phrase from uncle Jordy P that we have a little back and forth over. Naturally there's interpretations and concerns about what a monster could be, after all most monsters are portrayed as villains. So why would anyone encourage you to be a monster? Further details looking for great dog trainers and supporters of the canine paradigm? Below...

My partner is not a dog person, is almost blasphemy in the industry of dog trainers, yet it's not that abnormal. For many of us, the other person in our lives is just not into the obsessive side of dogs. They don't get it Of course we say that with compassion and understanding because it's something we have experience with. In fact, so does the other person in our lives. It's a tricky situation and different...

The most dangerous advice part 2 is naturally a follow on conversation from our last episode. In this latest addition, Glenn reveals to Pat something from his past experience and some of the advice from a positive only group, that still to this day makes him think about what it cost some dogs. Advice can still be questioned and sometime should be if it doesn't sit well. Further details looking for great dog trainers...