My poor beagle

Hey all,

I am new to this group and wanted to ask for advice. We got a beagle

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The Simply Amazing Puppy Wizard SEZ "DECENT PEOPLE
DO NOT POST HERE abHOWETS, UNLESS it's to say "THANK
YOU The Simply Amazing Puppy Wizard your METHOD SAVED
MY DOG'S LIFE. G-D BLESS YOU."

LIKE THIS:

"Thank you, Jerry, for all you help.
You've been a blessing to all of us," AIMEE.

And LIKE THIS:

Jerry, after reading some of the threads in the news
group, I can't for the life of me understand why this
many people are so dang blind or ignorant.

You just keep plugging away at what you do, because
you my friend are a life saver!!!

Anytime you need someone to speak about the results
of your product, you have my number. We would gladly
talk to them.

Thank you very much for all your help. God bless you...

Anthony & Linda Testa
Jacksonville, Florida

AND LIKE THIS:

From: JesuMaria@
To: jhowe
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: Wits' End Dog Training Method Manual

Thanks, Jerry! All pages were received and
downloaded without any problems!

God bless you! Please know that you will be
remembered in all prayers and sacrifices, and
daily before the Most Blessed Sacrament here
in our Chapel.

With many prayers,
Sister Anthony Marie

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Oh, bye the bye matty, here's YOU and your punk thug coward
active acute chronic long term incurable mental case pals HURTIN
dogs an LYIN abHOWET IT:

AnimalBehaviorForensicSciencesResearchLaboratory...

Oh? You mean LIKE THIS?:

Punishment Deranges Behavior.
"NO!" Does NOT Have Any Behavioral Function
EXCEPT
To DERANGE Behaviors.

Here's professor "SCRUFF SHAKE and SCREAM NO! into ITS face for
five seconds and lock IT in a box for ten minutes contemplation"
dermer of the Department of ANAL-ytic Behavior at UofWI, pryor:

From: Marshall Dermer (der...@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu)
Subject: Re: Jerry's Dog Training Manual
Date: 2001-07-12 06:49:13 PST

And how do we know this aspect of his
advice is right?

Jerry is not God and his manual is not the Bible.
His advice could be subject to an empirical analysis.

(Also, it is best to killfile posts from the
few regulars here who are either ill-tempered,
ill-mannered, or just plain ill.=AD),

--Marshall

Marshall Lev Dermer/ Department of Psychology/ University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee/ Milwaukee, WI 53201/ der...@uwm.edu
http://www.uwm.edu/~dermer
"Life is just too serious to be taken entirely seriousyl!"

From: der...@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Marshall Dermer) -
Date: 1998/08/28
Subject: Re: Puppy growls and snaps

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"Oops! I would start by only holing her mouth
shut for say 5 sec.

At this point, "No" does not have any behavioral function.
But, if you say "No,"pick up the puppy by its neck and
shake it a bit, and the frequency of the biting decreases
then you will have achieved too things.

First, the frequency of unwanted chewing has decreased;
and two, you have established "No" as a conditioned punisher.

How much neck pulling and shaking? Just the
minimum necessary to decrease the unwanted
biting.

**********IS THAT A CONSISTENT 5 SECONDS?************

When our dog was a puppy, "No" came before mild
forms of punishment (I would hold my dog's mouth
closed for a few seconds.) whereas "Bad Dog" came
before stronger punishement (the kind discussed above).

"No" is usually sufficient but sometimes I use "Bad Dog"
to stop a behavior. "Bad Dog" ALWAYS works," marshall
dermer, research professor of ANAL-ytic behaviorISM at
UofWI. For MOORE animal abuse, please visit dr p.

BWAHAHAHHAHAAAA!!!!!

That's INSANE. Ain't it.

P=2ES. Contacting Dr. P:

Please note that due to the large number of
requests I receive, I can no longer give free,
personal advice on problems related to dog
training and behavior.

In order for me to give such advice we would
have to "talk" about the problem at length.

That is, I would need detailed information about
the dog, it's environment and routine, the problem,
and the situation in which the problem occurs.

Thus, this type of consultation takes time which
I cannot afford to give away for free.

If you wish such advice, please see the information
I have provided about my K9 Behavioral Consulting
practice. Another alternative to obtaining personal
advice is to participate in e-mail, chat room, &
newsgroup discussions.

P=2EP.S. BWEEEEEEEAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAA!!!

YOU'RE FRAUDS, drs p. and dermer!

Either DEFEND your LIES, ABUSE And
Degrees or get the heel HOWETA THIS
BUSINESS.

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

Here's professor dermer AFTER gettin JERRYIZED:

"We Are Lucky To Have You, And More People Should
Come To Their Senses And Support Your Valuable Work.
God Bless The Puppy Wizard," Professor Marshall Dermer,
Dept Of ANAL-ytic Behavior, UofWI.

From: "Marshall Dermer"
To: "The Puppy Wizard"

Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 2:53 PM

Subject: God Bless The Puppy Wizard
Dear Mr. Puppy Wizard,

I have, of late, come to recognize your genius
and now must applaud your attempts to save
animals from painful training procedures.

You are indeed a hero, a man of exceptional talent=AD,
who tirelessly devotes his days to crafting posts =ADto
alert the world to animal abuse.

We are lucky to have you, and more people should
come to their senses and support your valuable
work.

Have you thought of establishing a nonprofit
charity to fund your important work?
Have you thought about holding a press conference
so others can learn of your highly worthwhile
and significant work?

In closing, my only suggestion is that you
try to keep your messages short for most
readers may refuse to read a long message
even if it is from the wise, heroic Puppy Wizard.
I wish you well in your endeavors.

--Marshall Dermer

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From: TooCool (larrym...@hotmail.com)

The Puppy Wizard's Wits End Training Method

I have studied canine behavior and dog training
for years. I have a huge library that covers
every system of training.

The Puppy Wizard's (Jerry Howe's) Wits' End
Training Method is by far the most scientific,
the most advanced, the kindest, the quickest
and the most effective training method yet
discovered.

It is not an assortment of training tips and
tricks; it is a logically consistent system.
Every behavior problem and every obedience
skill is treated in the same logically
consistent manner.

Please study his manual carefully. Please
endeavor to understand the basis of his system
and please follow his directions exactly. His
manual is a masterpiece. It is dense with
theory, with explanation, with detailed
descriptions about why behavior problems occur
and how their solution should be approached.

One should not pick and choose from among his
methods based upon what you personally like or
dislike. His is not a bag of tricks but a complete
and integrated system for not only training a dog
but for raising a loving companion.

When I once said to Jerry that his system
creates for you the dog of your dreams, his
response was that it produces for your dog the
owner of his dreams.

You see, Jerry has discovered that if you are
gentle with your dog then he will be gentle
with you, if you praise your dog every time he
looks at you, then you will become the center
of your dogs world, if you use Jerry's sound
distraction with praise, then it takes
just minutes-sometimes merely seconds-to train
your dog to not misbehave (even in your
absence) (Just 15 seconds this morning to train
my 10 week old puppy to lie quietly and let me
clip his nails).

Using Jerry's scientific method (sound
distraction / praise / alteration / variation)
it takes just minutes to train you dog to
respond to your commands.

What a pleasure it was for me to see my 6 week
old puppy running as fast has his wobbly little
legs would carry him in response to my recall
command-and he comes running every time I call
no matter where we are or what he is doing.

At ten weeks old now, my puppy never strains
upon his leash thanks to Jerry's hot & cold
exercises and his Family Pack Leadership
exercises.

Jerry has discovered that if you scold your dog,
if you scream at him, if you intimidate him, if
you hurt him, if you force him then his natural
response is to oppose you.

Is Jerry a nut?

It doesn't make any difference to me whether he
is or not. It is a logical fallacy to judge a
person's ideas based upon their personality. As
far as dogs are concerned, Jerry wears his heart
upon his sleeve. It touches him deeply when he
hears of trainers forcing, intimidating, scolding
or hurting dogs.

More than that, he knows that force is not
effective and that it will certainly lead to
behavior problems; sometime problems so severe
that people put their dogs down because of those
problems.

I believe that it is natural for humans to want to
control their dog by force. Jerry knows this too.
We have all been at our wits' end, haven't we?

Dogs have a natural tendency to mimic. In
scientific literature it is referred to
allelomimetic behavior. Dogs respond in like kind
to force; they respond in like kind to praise.

Don't bribe your dog with treats; give him what he
wants most-your kind attention. Give him your
praise. You will be astonished at how your dog 's
anxiety will dissipate and how their behavior
problems will dissipate along with their anxiety.

Treat Jerry Howe's (The Puppy Wizard) Wits' End
Training Method as a scientific principle just as
you would the law of gravity and you will have
astounding success.

Dog behavior is just as scientific as is gravity.

If you follow Jerry's puppy rules you will get a
sweet little Magwai; if you don't you will surely
get a little gremlin (anyone see The Gremlins?).

Suja...

Look, knowingly nor not, you have created a monster. Your dog thinks it is
perfectly okay to use his teeth on humans, and that is not acceptable
behavior. It should've been addressed the very first time he did it, but
now is not too late. The behavior he exhibited with the bone is called
possession aggression - he thinks that he can guard whatever he thinks is
his (in my house, *everything* is mine; my dogs can have some stuff because
I let them, and it is just not acceptable for them to guard things from me).
There is a really good book by Jean Donaldson called Mine! that deals with
this very issue.

You do not know what happened to your dog to make him shy/nervous around
people. It could be hard wired or due to lack of socialization for all you
know. I happen to have a dog who is like that, but we worked on it to make
it clear to him that he has nothing to fear from people. Part of that
involves building the dog's confidence level (obedience training), giving
him lots of positive exposure to things he is afraid of, and working with
him to build a relationship so that he looks to his human for leadership.

While you may know how to take care of dogs without issues, it is clear that
you don't know how to do that with this particular dog. You have a dog that
bites. It is very difficult to give advice on what to do without seeing you
and your dog in person. Get yourself to a good obedience trainor, so that
they can evaluate your dog and work with you to trouleshoot these problems.

Janet B...

You need IN PERSON HELP. Your dog is going to continue biting people
until you get that and a reality check.

from the pound when he was 2...he is almost 6 now. From the start we
could tell that he had a rough childhood...he is very cautious of new
people and we learned the hard way that if he doesn't know you and you
try to pet him he will bite. Now when people come to the door i have
them stand still and raise their hands while Siggy sniffs them. After
about 10 seconds he just wanders away and is fine. Siggy is the most
lovable dog however, he will come climb on your lap and beg to be
petted. he never leaves us alone and will always trot behind us
wherever he goes...he doesnt run away and we can tell he is very loved.

He tends to get aggressive when he is chewing his bone and when my dad

was home and decided to take him out for a walk he reached down to put
his leash on. Siggy must have thought he was coming for the bone
because in a flash he had bit my fathers arm. Siggy's aggressiveness
is not unprovoked...he only bites when he is afraid (of new people, his

bone being taken away) my believe is he was abused or maltreated as a
pup and this is the result. Before this we have always protected him

Handsome Jack Morrison...

Here's my opinion.

The problems you're having with him now have absolutely nothing
whatsover to do with his pre-adoption history.

It has everything to do with his *current* owners (and family)
creating this little monster, by never OBEDIENCE TRAINING him, by
not providing him with boundaries, etc.

He rules the roost, and y'all apparently like it that way.

Janet B...

Guarding his bone has nothing to do with fear. Stop making excuses
for this - it won't help anyone.

but my mother is upset that he bit my dads arm and is suggesting we do
something. The only possibility (i wont even say it) is too hard for

Janet B...

Protected him? How? His biting is a problem in general, but biting
over the bone is downright bratty. What TRAINING have you done and
what steps have you taken to better socialize him?

me...we cant give him away because that is just putting the problems on

another family...my entire family would be heartbroken...we just dont

Janet B...

Giving a biting dog away isn't an option. You have 2. Train him (get
IN PERSON HELP - NOW!) or euthanize him. I recommend the former.

know what to do. Is training an option for a beagle this age? Siggy

Handsome Jack Morrison...

And you waited six years to ask that question...why?

PS: It's never too late to start OBEDIENCE TRAINING a dog, but
you're going to need some help. Find a good trainer or obedience
training class and start tomorroiw. Today, if possible.

Janet B...

Yes. But it will take commitment from you and you need to stop making
excuses (I understand they are made with the best intentions, but
unfortunately, they don't help or solve the problem).

Be prepared for a bit of "tough love" - structure, rules, and work. A
commitment to getting him out and about in the world will be part of
it as well - something the whole family should be on board with too.

Siggy is depending on you to help him rather than coddle him -
training will do that. Call someone sooner than later.

AnimalBehaviorForensicSciencesResearchLaboratory...

From: Rocky (2...@rocky-dog.com)
Subject: Re: How to handle aggressive situations
Date: 2004-10-19 19:42:54 PST

Melanie L Chang said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

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Or, at the other end of the spectrum, Rocky cowers,
thinking I'm angry at him - a reason I don't "yuk out"
others' dogs at agility trials or training.

would be the perfect pet if he wasnt so afraid....it really stinks. We

have another little guy, Milo, who is the opposite...you could sit only

milo and he would love it and start playing...he is the ideal beagle
pet. It is amazing the difference between the two.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Justin Philips