Comments on: Training Tuesday: Bat Boy!

By: TheSophisticatedDog

TheSophisticatedDog — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:40:58 +0000

Thank you so much for the endorsement, Crystal! For the record, Crystal is an amazing trainer herself.

Irith (Eereet)

By: Training Tuesday: Batboy begins

Training Tuesday: Batboy begins — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:12:05 +0000

[...] I mentioned last week, my trainer Crystal suggested that Frankie and I try Behavior Adjustment Training (BAT) — not [...]

By: Edie Jarolim

Edie Jarolim — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:06:45 +0000

Thank you — and welcome. I’m always pleased to meet more people who advocate humane training methods.

By: Jonathan Klein

Jonathan Klein — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:42:09 +0000

Glad to see this all heading in the direction of counter conditioning and behavior modification, not confrontational and correction based training. Great work everyone.

By: Edie Jarolim

Edie Jarolim — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:32:58 +0000

I appreciated Crystal’s clarification too. Good thing we’re communicating via blog! It took me a while to find the perfect bat boy photo of Frankie — and to crop myself out effectively — so thanks for complimenting it!

By: Edie Jarolim

Edie Jarolim — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:30:59 +0000

It’s actually Irith (The Sophisticated Dog) who’s going to be doing the write up but I look forward to it too. Clearly I didn’t even realize it was all about calming signals! I will have to learn to read Crystal

Thanks for your nice words about my writing.

By: Mels Pet Pals

Mels Pet Pals — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:23:33 +0000

I wait excitedly for Grisha’s write up! I have used a form of B.A.T. with a dog client of mine and we’ve had terrific results! The only problem is sometimes I’m not being as observant as I could be. Still working on that one.

BTW- I loved your opening paragraph! Amazing writing!

By: Mary E Haight

Mary E Haight — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:59:44 +0000

This is going to be great. Icaught the tail end of the DogTalk session with Grisha, and read the script for the rest – was fascinated and sorry that I had missed so much. I am really looking forward to this! I appreciated Crystal’s clarification and the mention of barking as one of Frankie’s distance increasing signals – a neighbor has a dog with this issue and I can pass on this training method to her.

Great photo by the way – I see what you mean about the echolocation possibilities:)

By: Edie Jarolim

Edie Jarolim — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:11:09 +0000

What a small world this dog training world is! Irith is going to run her piece by Grisha before sending it to me (if you had a Twitter account, Crystal, you would know this ). But maybe you can tell me the connection between Irith and Grisha (who get prizes, incidentally, for wonderful exotic names).

By: Crystal Saling,

Crystal Saling, — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:05:38 +0000

Oh,
NOW I read this part- sheesh. Irith (Ereet) Bloom is the Trainer’s name at Sophisticated dog in L.A. I was her roommate at clicker expo this year. She is an amazing trainer. I’m sure her article will be just as good as Grisha’s would have been!