HOWE Positive IS "Positive Reinforcement?"

Conditional Reflex

HOWE To USE ONLY PURELY PLEASURABLY POSITIVE METHODS

HOWEDY People,

HOWE Positive IS "Positive Reinforcement?" Depending
on your dialect it could be shoving someWON off a cliff.
The terms are MEANINGLESS. We NEED to COMMUNICATE
in terms which are EZ to understand like as if you was
talkin to a child.

Subject: How to use Kongs

The Kong is a nice durable chew type erratically
bouncing "ball" which The Amazing Puppy Wizard's
dogs occasionally enjoy despite that HE NEVER fills
them with food.

Food motivated and excessively chewing dogs are
INSECURE and self concerned. Of curse, NO WON
should EVER be FOOD DEPRIVED, as in traditional
clicker and other lure / bribe type training
"METHODS".

When used NON PHYSICALLY a toy, light or treat BRIEFLY
NON PHYSICALLY and ALTERNATELY VARIABLY introduced e.g.
you could briefly flash a toy or light and put it out
of sight as you INSTANTLY PRAISE for 5-15 seconds and
praise intermittently again while the dog is THINKING
and again before and when the behavior you're working
on resumes and just follow the technique alternating
or RANDOMIZING the BRIEF NON PHYSICAL distractions
or CUES instantly praising the cue when extinguishing
behavior and installing CONDITIONAL REFLEXES to ANY
command.

Conditional reflex is like when someWON posts sayin
"Thank you, Jerry. Your METHOD SAVED MY DOG'S LIFE.
G-D BLESS YOU" and then get called liars and forgeries
and FOOLS for followin JERRY'S METHODS.

Then rather than burden an already whipped dead horse
with another WHIPPIN let's CHANGE THE NAME and we'll
call "POSITIVE" anything we'd LIKE for HOWErselves and
try doin THAT to whomever you happen to be near and if
THEY MIGHT NOT APPRECIATE IT, it would therefore
necessarilly be INAPUPRIATE FOR ANY CRITTER.

That way there AIN'T NO GREY AREAS or need for the
terms SOFT or HARD or DRIVEN as DRIVEN DOGS are HYPER
when IN DRIVE which should ONLY be used under specific
working circumstances or the dog MIGHT JUST GO INSANE
with OCD's and other behavior / temperament problems
and heelth DIS-EASES. Like DENTAL DIS-EASE. Dogs DON'T
NEED dental care if they DON'T GET DENTAL DIS-EASE
which can be a STRESS INDUCED AUTO-IMMUNE DIS-EASE.

ALL behaviors can be CONDITIONED NEARLY INSTANTLY
if you follow the apupriate proven effective non
physical methods. The WON TRICK PONY ALWAYS WORKS
because it uses EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK that WORKS
and uses NUTHIN which may cause FAILURE, like variable
rewards bribes avoidance or force.

UNDERSTOOD?

Let's get on to the EFFECTIVE USE of PURELY PLEASURABLE
POSTIVE training and we'll LEAVE HOWET "RE-ENFORCEMENT"
as "RE-ENFORCEMENT NEVER ENDS" because when you ENFORCE
a behavior you've VIOLATED *"ALWAYS"* purely positively
NON PHYSICAL which means you WILL FAIL as we've PROVEN
through DOCUMENTED CASE HISTORY DATA by simply changing
the word positive and INSERTING *"ALWAYS"* Purely
Pleasurable in its stead.

IOW, WON MUST NEVER say "ALMOST ALWAYS USE POSITIVE
METHODS" as THAT would lend INCONSISTENCY to PURELY
PLEASURABLE POSITIVE caring. That means we DON'T
turn our back on a puppy greeting us or push IT away
no more than you'd do that to a child greeting you
unless they had sumpthin catchy.

The TRAINING will come as though by MAGICK as soon
as the critter becomes accustomed to NON OPPOSITIONAL
METHODS. Think OPPOSITION REFLEX and ALLELOMIMETIC
behavior and that's the END of ANY negative reinforcement
or alpha theory methods such as GIVING a REWARD or
TAKING AWAY as punishments for conditioning a behavior.

That takes us to PRAISE IN ADVANCE. Let's CHANGE
THAT to UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TRUST and RESPECT and
there goes the shootin match.

That makes TRAINING ANY CRITTER IMPOSSIBLE to not
achieve NEARLY INSTANTLY. UNLESS there's a PROBLEM
for accepting and giving UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TRUST
and RESPECT, which of curse, have been taught thru
ALLELOMIMETIC BEHAVIOR e.g. MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO.

Whatever your "role models" were are what you
probably HATED when you was young but now that
you're WIZER you DO accept punishment food rewards
deprivation and EXPECT tantrums and CON-TROLL or
DOMINANCE issues or "whatever" as THAT'S your own
CONDITIONING, just as it is for your dog or beneficiary.

NO PROBLEMO.

We've got effective methods of CONDITIONING behaviors
therefore WHATEVER the behavior is WE KNOW we can DEAL
WITH IT apupriately and NON PHYSICALLY using EFFECTIVE
conditioning methods like you was taught.

Even a CRIPPLE can train an obstrepetHOWES dog or child
because you don't need to give EFFECTIVE CORRECTIONS or
FORCED RESTRAINT therefore you DON'T GET OPPOSITION or
STUBBORN or HYPERACTIVE behaviors and destructive chewing
and self mutilations and aggression as those behaviors are
CAUSED BY REPRESION or as TRAINsfer behaviors or as anxiety
relief mechanisms.

Other time dogs just FAIL TO THRIVE and have auto
immune DIS-EASES as so very many of the dog lovers
dogs here got, some of whom have had SEVERAL dogs
with the same same SYMPTOMS.

HOWEDY Jen,

Jen wrote:
I have a question.

That's very curious.

I have a cheap brand kong type ball. It has one
opening. I've read up about stuffing kongs with
peanut butter and freezing soups and things in
them.

You mean to occupy the dog so IT DON'T GO INSANE.
THAT'S INSANE. Offering the dog a treat he can't
get at, will make the dog HYPERACTIVE or ANGRY.

"Despite Skinner's clear denunciation of "negative
reinforcement" (1958) NEARLY EVERY LEARNING
THEORY model involves the USE OF PUNISHMENT.
Of curse, Skinner has never to my knowledge,
demonstrated HOWE we escape the phenomenon
that an expected reward not received is experienced
as a punishment and can produce extensive and
persistent aggression (Azrin et al, 1966)."

But I'm wondering how does the dog
actually get the stuff out?

HE AIN'T SUPPOSED TO. It's INTENDED to KEEP IT BUSY
so YOU don't have to PUNISH IT for being ANXIOUS.

So far I've just put dry things in it,

For what?

and eventually as she rolls the ball around,
the things fall out.

Oh. She's PLAYING with it. There's no harm if
you're both enjoying getting stuff out but to
intentionally frustrate the dog to make him
lick peanut butter out of that hole is UN-WIZELY.

Last night The Amazing Puppy Wizard's dog asked
for a cooke and it dropped under the fridge and
threw her another. But when HIS pup pawed after
it HE got down and plucked it out so she wouldn't
get FRUSTRATED. Felt really stupid again to boot
lettin HISSELF get conned into givin a COOKIE on
the EXXXCUSE that DINNER WAS LATE!

Is this maybe different than the kongs you can
stuff with peanut butter and stuff??

Maybe. Maybe you're giving the toy with treats
in it to make her HAPPY. The other's are doin
so to KEEP THEIR DOG OCCUPIED so IT DON'T DISTURB
THEM.

"A word to the WIZE, is sufficient,"
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Jer 21 And unto this people thou shalt say,
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before
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2Ki 19:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus
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thou hast heard, with which the servants of
the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.


"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth:
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"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
- Matthew 10:34-36.


The Puppy Prophet {); ~ )


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First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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"Thank you for fighting the fine fight--
even tho it's a hopeless task,
in this system of things.
As long as man is ruling man,
there will be animals (and humans!)
abused and neglected. :-(
Your student," Juanita.


"If you've got them by the balls their hearts
and minds will follow,"
John Wayne.


The Amazing Puppy Wizard {); ~ )


To Dr. Steven Hamilton


From Jerry Howe,


The Amazing Puppy WIzard {) ; ~ )


Dr. Steven Hamilton is an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Psychiatry


"Psychiatry has yet to validate a single psychiatric
condition/diagnosis as an abornality/disease, or as
anything 'neurological', 'biological', 'chemically
imbalanced' or 'genetic'." Dr. Fred A. Baughman, Neurologist.


at the University of California, San Francisco, Langley
Porter Psychiatric Institute.


From: "George von Hilsheimer, Ph.D."
To: "Jerry Howe"
Subject: Alleged Professors of Animal Behavior
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:50:51 -0400

Dear Jerry, I paged through some of the "dog business"
and was astonished at the low quality of opinions arising
from professors of behavior analysis.


I had the very great privilege of meeting Sam Corson
(Pavlov's last Ph.D. student) and his dogs at Ohio
University. I even got to spend a night at Sam's house.


There is no question but that you are a spiritual brother
to Corson and to Pavlov, both of whom knew that the dog's
great capacity for love was the key to shaping doggie behavior.


Paradoxical reward and paradoxical fixing of attention are
both well documented Pavlovian techniques. Even so humorless
a chap as B.F. Skinner taught students like the Breland's whose
"The Misbehavior of Organisms" demonstrate the utility of your
methods and their deep roots in scientific (as opposed to
commercial) psychology.


George von Hilsheimer, Ph.D., F.R.S.H.
you may find my resume in Who's Who in
Science and Technology



His research is focused on mapping genes for complex traits.
Dr. Karen Overall is a world-renowned animal behaviorist and
researcher at the Center of Neurobiology and Behavior at
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine.


From: "George von Hilsheimer, Ph.D."
To:
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 5:38 PM
Subject: Doggy advice

Scott, Jerry Howe forwarded me the letter below.
I'm glad that you referred negatively to Jerry's
habit of CAPITALIZING and HOWEING everything.


I personally hate this habit of his. I think it is his
way of diluting his authority - IME he is a very modest
fellow. However, contrary to your sneer, he is very
competent at living with dogs.


I thought I'd list a series of actions which I found
on the list, folk asking advice on what to do about
dogs doing this and that, for example:


whining,
humping, hunching,
pacing,
self mutilation - paw licking, side sucking,
spinning,
prolonged barking, barking at shadows,
overstimulated barking,
fighting, bullying other dogs,
compulsive digging,
compulsive scratching,
compulsive chewing,
frantic behavior,
chasing light, chasing shadow,
stealing food,
digging in garbage can,
loosing house (toilet) training.
inappropriate fearfulness
aggression.


The thing that is fascinating to me, as an ethologist who
graduated from college 50 years ago and has spent all of
the intervening time working with animals (including the
human animal), is that you never see any of these behaviors
in wild dingoes, jackals, coyotes or wolves, you don't even
see these behaviors in hyenas (who aren't dog related).


You see these behaviors in human managed animals, especially
animals who live with neurotic hysterical humans.


As Sam Corson (Pavlov's last student) demonstrated for
nearly 50 years at Ohio University (Oxford, O.) there
is no treatment more useful for dogs than tender loving
care.


George von Hilsheimer, Ph. D., F. R. S. H., Diplomate,
Academy of Behavioral Medicine


"Linda" wrote in message
news:


I have been trying for the last 18 months to help my
dog who became fear aggressive at 18 month of age.
I do not know what started the problem but he came
aggressive first with dogs and then began lunging and
snapping at people. Until this time he loved everyone
and could play with any dog. He was well socialized
ad I took him with me everywhere.


At 13 months he passed the Canine Good Citizens
Test except he could let me leave him. I had used
clicker training to teach him manners and tricks but
it was not working on his aggression problem.


I took him to vets who suggested a low protein diet,
trainers who charged $800 to only make him worse.
They tried to use a prong collar and he froze, urinated
and tried to climb on my head to help him. they then
suggested a shock collar I knew this approach was not
working as he was becoming more aggressive.


I took him to an animal behaviorist with Ph. D. 400 miles
away who told me to "KEEP HIM SAFE" and read a book
on the fearful canine. I tried another trainer who tried to
use a nylon chock collar but it only made him worse.


I read hundreds of books,"CULTURE CLASH", "DOG
ARE FROM NEPTUNE", "THE OTHER END OF THE
LEASH", ETC looking for help. We finally went to Purdue
University Small Animal Behavior Clinic and they said he
had fear aggression, punishment would not work, use the
gentle leader and when out walking and he got stressed
have the people stop until he could get in control using
treats, and work on clicker training.


At that point I knew more about clicker training and using
the gentle leader than they did! Nothing was working--he
would not come when I called him and would run away when
I tried to catch him. I was afraid to walk him even in the
neighborhood as we had become that "mean dog and women who
hasn't trained her dog"


I went to four trainers in both Michigan and Florida who
were trainer/specialists in aggression and the last two
were so afraid of him they could not approach him. No one
said I should give up on him and kill him but they would
say "You have to realize he is dangerous and you are
responsible for him."


*(You got LUCKY, Linda... They coulda got Sunshine
DEAD on us. Damned near did... too.)


As last resort I tried the internet again--I had had on
going discussions with trainers from Triple Crown and Dr
Meister with out any help-and I found the ad to Doggy Do
Right and messaged Jerry to ask if this might help my dog.
He said solving the aggression problem was EZ but I could
not believe him even when I downloaded the manual.


The name of the method was right I was at my Wits End.
I had been working for 18 months!


Using the can sound three time he came, and still comes
from anywhere with the command-"comegoodboy" Next
I tried the can when walking him--when he saw a dog three
blocks away he went off-lunging and snapping-I used the
can sound and he looked at me like uhn?


I used it three more times and we got to the other dog-
-the looked at me wagging his tail--the other person
looked at me like why are shaking that can but just walked
on by.


When ever I try to explain about the sound people look at
me like "you must be out of your mind"


The results can make a believer!!!


Three weeks since beginning the Wits End Training
Manual program I walked him without the gentle leader
in a busy shopping area with many dogs.


He just seemed to not notice any one.


When people talked to him or ask his name he would
look at then and wag his tail and let then pet him.


I still can not believe the change in him--we can now
enjoy life out in public.


If I had not found the Wits End method I know there
was no hope for him and he would have hurt someone
Through all this he never growled at me, guarded his
toys or food or showed any sign of aggression with me.


My goal is to get the message out to all dog lovers that
dogs can be trained fast, easily and problems solved with
out force, pain, food or anything but sound and praise!!!!


I know most people would have given up on him a long time
ago but he was and is my life. Solving the problem was EZ
but only with the right approach-sound and praise.


I know because I tried everything else and nothing worked!!!


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From: Linda Daniel
To: Jerry Howe
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 1:06 AM
Subject: - dog aggression


Thanks for writing--I would be happy to do almost anything
to get your approach out to dog owners as I know it would
save so many lives. I know at times I was so frustrated I
thought of giving up on Sunshine but of course I never would
have but many people would have. The world just does not
know you can train a dog in just a few sessions and actually
solve problems.


We will be here until late April and we really have no plans-
-just to enjoy the warmth and sun of Florida, so any time
you could meet us would be great. I drive so I would be
happy to come to you anytime anywhere!


We went to Celebration today and two little poodles got
right into his face and he just sat there--I GOT a little
scared but he handled it just fine.--a couple of times people
would ask his name and want to pet him and he just went
to them tail wagging and rolled over for them rub his tummy.


He really just is not concerned about people passing, even
those on rollerblades! I have always used a gentle leader
in public but he spent most of time rubbing his face on the
grass--today I used his collar and he was so much happier!!


Only problem is he will stop to smell and I can not get
stopped soon enough to keep the leash loose. He never
pulled ahead of me but when he gets into smelling I have
a hard time getting him going--at times I think he could
smell a blade of grass for 10 minutes.


I can never thank you enough for giving Sunshine back!!!!!


I wrote to Purdue and told them about him being able to
walk in a crowd with out the /gentle leader and not having
a problem with other people and dogs.


I told them their advice did not work. Their advice was
to use the gentle leader at all times and when he was
around people or dogs to have him sit and reward with
treats--one really good suggestions was to have people
coming toward us stop when he got stressed or aroused
and not move until we backed away-


- can you just see me yelling at people to stop on the street
until I get his attention with treats.


They also suggested the possibility of using drugs-prozac-
but thought he was too dangerous as the drug would make
him less fearful and then he might attack or become more
sure of himself and become dominate aggressive. Just had
to share their great advice with you but I am sure you have
heard it all--even I am becoming an expert on bad advice.


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