My general concern here is, that I think people haven't gotten the "positively" concept what we all support here in this forum. Victoria's earlier seasons have run on television here, but that had no general impact. I feel like I'm blessed with knowing that there IS ANOTHER WAY apart from punishing and nagging, but I don't know how to tell people. People use clicker training, which in my eyes is the perfect example of positive training, only for tricks and agility, not with behavior problems.
I go to Estonian dog forums and see people asking for help with anxious and problematic dogs and I want to help, I can almost always think of some ideas to make the situation better with their dogs and problems, because I have watched so many Victoria's shows and read about dog behavior, but I don't really have experiences. My dog is perfectly behaving (except while its thundering, but we're working on that) and I don't think people will let some 20 year old girl who has no papers proving experience to train their dogs.
I probably would struggle in the beginning, but I want to get experiences so I could help people in the future. I've had some experience, I taught a young dachshund to walk nicely without barking on passengers and to stop barking at doorbell and tried basic training with clicker on a spaniel. And I'm still experiencing with clicker training on my dog, we are learning how to pull from rope right now.
I've been thinking that maybe people in shelters would let me try make the dogs behave better so they would be adopted. But when I saw the people responsible for the shelter in my town, well, they probably know nothing about training dogs or dogs' behavior
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The other thing I've been thinking about, is clicker training and other animals besides dogs. In Karen Pryor's "Reaching animal mind" there are descriptions of people working in zoos, doing amazing things with clicker. They can manage animals better, have regular medical checkups and animals are not afraid of their keepers. I feel I'd like to introduce clicker training to the zoos in my country, but again, who on earth would let a 20 year old with no experience experiment with wild animals? I could tell them what other zoos in the world have accomplished, but again I fear they would not listen to me, and I can't give them any examples as I haven't personally seen or worked in a zoo using clicker, only have made a duck to "quack" to get pieces of bread.
Phew, I got my thoughts out there and I feel a bit better now
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