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My mother left home when I was 2, taking my brother and sister with her. My father was always 'busy' and I was looked after by a succession of minders. My life was empty and I made my own entertainment. Permission was given for me to keep a stray dog, a wire haired terrier called Sparks, because he was a live wire. My loneliness disappeared and Sparks was joined by another unwanted puppy, and another, and another. I have shared my life with dogs since then, apart from a few years after leaving home. I began seriously training them when I was about 8 after my mother died and I knew that she would never come home. I haunted the town library, this was my source of information on training, grooming, diet, exercise, health and rehabilitation. I became involved with The Cavalier Welfare Organization over 20 years ago and have given a home to several who needed various degrees of physical as well as mental rehabilitation. A few other breeds have infiltrated over the years, several cocker spaniels, a Springer spaniel and a Border Collie Jazz, who came during the spring of 2000. he wanted to eat my cats, resulting in them spending most of their time away from home. This was a problem outside of my capabilities and I enlisted the help of a behaviorist. Her advice was to place a head halter on Jazz and yank his head hard when he looked at the cats, he was to be tied to a hook on the wall and water was to be thrown on him when he was 'naughty'. She informed me about Pack Rules structure and Jazz was to be put on a rank reduction program, no games/ toys unless I said so, no going through doors before me , no walking in front of me, no eye contact, he was to be ignored unless I wished to interact with him etc, etc. Everything that was foreign to my beliefs was to be put into place. I paid her handsome fee and I never heard from her again. My refusal to damage Jazz resulted in my quest for a solution to
our problem and I started studying canine I am currently working on a further Diploma in Advanced Canine Behavior Management. My heart is with the rescue dog and at the moment I share my life with 7. 5 Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, one Cocker spaniel and Border Collie, Jazz . At the time of writing, Bruno, a boxer, is staying for a while, he is about 3 years old and has been in rescue kennels for the last six months, he was deemed to be untrainable and un-homable and was facing euthanasia. He will be going to his forever home next week. I only use kind, positive methods of training and prosper only by virtue of a model based on mutual respect and understanding. |
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psychology. Within a few months and on
applying my new knowledge together with common sense, our problem was well on
the way to being solved and
the cats were back home again. My studies have continued from my
introduction to canine psychology to intermediate and culminating in my Diploma
in Advanced Canine Psychology. My studies have broadened further with a
Distinction in Advanced Animal Behavior Diploma.