She also helped after the war in Bosnia by replacing positive and negative reinforcement with correct communication when training dogs to detect land mines and was invited to present a paper on her research at the Paris International Conference on Education and Economy.
As civilized dog owners, we need to realise just how intelligent, intuitive and highly complex our domestic dogs are. We need to understand their mental processes, how their minds work, how complex their emotions and their instincts are, how they are genetically equipped to communicate I read it in an academic text book - so it must be true! I don't think so. So what then are the implications of these wide spread theories that are taught to professionals as fact? That is at the core of where Pam's work and the artificial systems diverge.
The fact is, dogs are designed to live within families, who live within a loyal and mutually supportive social system - a pack, or communal system - of dogs. They therefore have their own instinctive "language", which they bring with them into our homes bag and baggage. Living in families where there is love, loyalty, compassion, jealousy, rivaly, politics Who doesn't want to be "top dog"? Or know someone - 2 or 4 legged - who always wants to be King of the Castle?
Even better - a pack, or a team - of dogs have a highly developed sense of right and wrong, which creates cohesion in a communcal system that is built for living within a kill or be killed environment.
Yes, little Poochie Woochie bless his cotton socks is even smarter than you, me or the most complex computer that just came onto the market yesterday. We call this awesome capacity for strategy, networking with each other, for cooperative synergy and for survival - which we have not bothered to make the effort to understand, but only to try and project our own human reasoning onto them Yet it is their very instinctual moral code - i.
But they are not able to adopt our moral code - i. Which, when they can't, humans call "no ears" and "stubborn". If showing a dog what he has done like they don't know who did it , barking orders, bribing All that dog owners need to do is develop their dogs' sinbuilt, instinctual desire to please their leader through communicating correctly in a way that their dog can understand.
Not to bliksem them into submission, spray them or "lose it" simply because they have no idea what we are on about. Nature knows best. All this means that our dogs are actually "pre-packaged" to move into our homes already equipped with the potential to learn the difference between what is acceptable behaviour, and what is not acceptable behaviour - provided we know how to set these parameters and "behavioural fences" in a way that their instincts can relate to.
This is not achieved through hostile army-style one way communication or by trying to manipulate our dogs with tricks 'n treats - because that is not the way dogs are "hard-wired" to communicate. Not even humans are. Which explains why there are so many different "flavours of the month" artificial dog training methods and hot off the press gimmicks that keep appearing on the dog behaviour scene Which they don't, so on to the next one Countless much-loved dogs then end up at rescue shelters, because these artificial behaviour systems compound - not cure - behaviour problems.
Then caring and committed families adopt these confused dogs, unkown to them, together with their baggage of "behavioural disorders" - which soon surface in their new homes. And are then "taken to training" She's responsible for the gratuitous murder of a beautiful dog. This is the woman who wrote a book years back, entitled, 'Living with an Alien' the canine.
She said that your dog 'gets depressed' if you pat or stroke it gently. She also said from memory that you should never permit the animal to turn its back on you. So all of my back-scratch-loving dogs over the years have needed her pseudo interventions.
Thank God they never got near her. Please tell as many people as you can about this crap. People like this shouldn't be allowed anywhere near animals - other than hungry carnivores. Digg This Save to del. Please visit this site - hopefully,it will pop your over-inflated ego, and put an end to your hysteria. Posted by: Dr. Anthony Marsh Monday, 29 January at Posted by: jane johnson Tuesday, 30 January at What is the Marsh dude a doctor of? If ever an article was filled with conventional wisdom and cliches then the Argus one he refers to was it.
Posted by: Cynic Wednesday, 31 January at What formal qualifications does Pam Whyte possess? Her website bangs on about her vast experience with animals, but says nothing about how she acquired this knowledge. And who is Anthony Marsh? Is he a real doctor? I can also call myself 'Herr Doktor Professor' when I post my 2 cents worth to this website.
The Argus article which is linked with his comment does not convince me that Pam Whyte is an expert. In fact, it is difficult to see why he refers us to this article. It's as if "Pam's in the news, so everything she says must be true. Her website basically dismisses all other animal trainers. One rapidly gets the impression that Pam thinks of her system as the only valid system for training dogs. It's as if she possesses a special gnosis which sells for about R She dismisses animal behaviourists, obedience training - in fact, just about every other system used to train dogs.
What do qualified animal behaviourists say about Pam Whyte? Is she a quack or is she for real? Her e-mail response to Clive was not particularly enlightening. I have heard Dr. Platzhund on Cape Talk commenting that he does not agree with Pam Whyte, but he does not elaborate on this. I would really love to hear from a qualified animal behaviourist. Or is Pam a tad too litigous? Posted by: Lev Friday, 02 February at I requested Pam's assistance recently.
I dont know what to do now Posted by: doglover Monday, 02 July at Well, there are always other options. Talk to your vet, talk to the SPCA. Google it. Why give yourself only one limited option? Posted by: Clive Simpkins Monday, 02 July at I had a dog a few years ago who was giving problems because he was always biting people.
I engaged Pam Whyte to help me, and I gained a lot from her tips on how to relate to dogs, and how to control him. I did not take everything she said as absolute gospel, but used what I needed and ignored what I did not need. She came to my house for one and a half days and upset my whole apple cart. My pooches are the kiddies and I was told to treat them like animals.
If it does not get better than this it was still worth the money - and it cost me quite a bit as I live some distance from C. Viva le alien!!
Jet Please help.
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