The charity called “DARG” or Domestic Animals Rescue Group located on Main Road in beautiful Hout Bay, has invited me for a talk about
“How to live in harmony with my dog”.
You will find DARG (www.facebook.com/DARG.org.za)alongside Main Road in Hout Bay/Cape Town - South Africa.
Please call 021.791 3903 or 021 790 2050 in order to reserve your seats because we have a limited amount of chairs.
How can we live in harmony with our dogs?
Having worked for decades with droves of dog lovers I came to the conclusion that the training of dogs becomes only possible when we do something else first. First and foremost we have to understand our dogs.
In order to understand our dogs we have to learn their language.
How do dogs speak? Do they speak English, or Zulu, or French, or Xhosa, or Spanish? No, they do not speak a verbal human language. But they speak something we can easily learn to understand and that something is “body language”. It is a language we speak ourselves every day without consciously noticing it. Linguists tell us that whenever we use words, we lie most of the time. To lie with words is easy. But have you ever tried to lie with your body? That is much, much more difficult. Or let’s look at it differently: With our body we speak the truth, most of the time. Now that is very interesting. It means that if we learn to read the body language of our dogs correctly it becomes very, very easy to understand them. It becomes easy because dogs always speak the truth.
As soon as we understand our dogs, we can communicate clearly with them without having to deal with misunderstandings like pulling, obsessive barking, chewing furniture… you name it.
When we can clearly communicate with our dogs, we can educate them in such a way that they accept and respect us as their pack leaders. If they accept and respect us as their leaders, we are sure they are paying attention to us when we want it. That is what we need. Ever tried to educate a dog (or a human) who ignores you?
As soon as our position of leader in the pack is clear, then and only then can we start training our dog in agility, fly-ball, nose work, man work, carting etc…
After the talk you can enroll for a six months course in canine communication that will start at.9.00 on Saturday 04.02.2012 on the DARG premises.
See you there.
Kindest regards from Brunothedoglistener.
www.brunodogs.co.za
info@brunodogs.co.za
079 393 3553
021 761 3801
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