by Kris | Oct 21, 2019 | Breeding, Nutrition
The Science of Epigenetics 30 Years ago, a friend made a behavioural claim that shocked me and was considered scientific heresy. His claim was impossible, according to my genetic worldview – after all, genetics are fixed! It turns out he was correct. Discoveries...
by Kris | Oct 20, 2019 | Breeding, Nutrition
Kris Kotsopoulos CARE – NUTRITION – TRAININGKris Kotsopoulos’s story is a fascinating one. After their home was robbed, sixteen-year-old Kris had a natural and centuries-old reaction. He felt the family needed a dog around the place to deter would-be...
by Kris | Sep 6, 2019 | Tracking
First Principle A ‘tracking article’ itself should have potentially no meaning to a dog. It is nothing more than a piece of material. What should have meaning to the dog is the odour of human scent on that piece of material. Tracking is nose work. That...
by Kris | Sep 5, 2019 | Obedience
Antecedents, Behaviour and ConsequencesEvery time we interact with our dog we provide some form of signal and these signals overtime associated with pleasant or unpleasant events. These events are not limited to us as handlers but also to all factors in our dogs...
by Kris | Sep 2, 2019 | Obedience
What is Learning?It has been said that ‘Teaching is the art of suggestion’. Put more rigorously; it could be accurately stated that “Learning occurs when the outcome and the expectation differ.”The implication of having learnt something is that a change of behaviour...
