Month: November 2020
Sit Does Not Mean Sit: Giving Puppies a Voice with Mand Behaviors
Jane Messineo Lindquist borrowed the term “mand” from the human psychology lexicon. Mand training for nonverbal humans is a way of teaching them how to use gestures to ask for things, and that’s the simplest explanation—a mand behavior is a nonverbal way to ask for things and/or signal a need. Manding is the concept that … Read more
Restoring the Old-fashioned Black and Tan English Shepherd
A strategy for preserving the Old-fashioned Black and Tan English Shepherd If we continue to refer to the black and tan farm dogs of Middle Tennessee simply as black and tans, they will eventually become extinct. It may already be too late. The issue is that by calling them black and tans, a large amount … Read more
From Field to Forest
We had a few consecutive nights of heavy frost. So this morning, I finally got a chance to introduce Sugar to the thousand acre wood. At dawn there are a multitude of scents, sights and sounds at play in a hardwood forest. All degree of distractions for a yearling dog. But Sugar stayed close the … Read more