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Here is a brief outline of the vast and very misunderstood subject of helping dogs adjust to domestication and their lifestyle, and integrating them into their families.
A Natural Dog Training Home Kit has all the info a dog owner needs to be able to both prevent and cure behaviour problems through understanding their dog correctly - instead playing “armies” with them and their owners (dog training) by bliksemming them into submission, bribing them and therefore having very limited control and losing their respect, or by applying theories that have been developed through studying laboratory animals. None of these artificial situations reflect the real world where dogs live and interact with their families. Dogs are very much more complex and super-intelligent than either dog professionals or laymen give them credit for.
These highly superficial approaches all leads to treating only the symptoms, (making dogs scared of being punished, etc.) and never to actually removing the root cause of the problem. And because none of their theories have actually been subjected to any long term (or even short term) quality control tests within the dogs’ own homes – they lead to the appearance of one gimmick after another - all falling into the same trap - and all propped up - not by results – but by marketing myths and propaganda.
Natural Dog Training Home Kits, on the other hand empowers dog owners with empirical information which has been drawn from many, many years of on hands experience in curing behaviour problems in domestic dogs (and other pets) within many thousands of homes. Studying the spontaneous interaction between members of functional packs of wild dogs confirms and enhances this thoroughly proven information. It therefore only teaches techniques that have been subjected to stringent long term quality control tests.
With the Kit, Pam also gives vital one on one tailor made training to each dog owner, whether they live in New Zealand, USA, Canada, India, Denmark, UK...
The Natural Dog Training Home Kit gives dog owners a deep understanding of why their dogs do what they do, and therefore how to get so much more enjoyment out of them through connecting with them on a much deeper and more meaningful level, and how to remove their urge to be destructive, aggressive, disobedient, pull on the lead, mess indoors, chase the cat, bark for nothing, chew, dig, knock children over... which is always either a cry for help, or the direct result of confusion. Dogs are not human, and instead of trying to impose human reasoning on dogs, the Natural Dog Training Home Kit teaches dog owners DOG logic! (Which is actually extremely logical.)
Every range of behaviour problem can therefore be cured simply by learning what motivates our dogs to behave the way they do, and by understanding what they are communicating to us (trying to!) through understanding the subtle, exciting and powerful Laws of the Jungle which are built into every dogs’ genes - and therefore govern all dog behaviour. They are kind and easy to apply - and simply remove the dog’s urge to be “naughty, disobedient” etc. Nature is always simple. It is man who complicates things.
Once dog owners have achieved this vital mind shift (which won’t be found any where else) their dogs become an asset and an enhancement to their families (and vice versa). This is because they are able to live in harmony with their pets who automatically become well behaved, without having to be ordered around, commanded, subjected to raised voices and threats (and worse) - but to be fully under control through influence, trust and communication (sound civilized? it is!), so that their families can be proud of their dogs’ behaviour! Naturally! Because that is how a pack of dog lives – as the Alpha Training attachment shows.)
Very importantly, the Home Kit also brings out the dog’s natural urge to protect his territory, his pack and his leader. The technique is taught - not by academics who are limited by their “corridor vision”, or by dog trainers, who want to subjugate their four legged ‘enemy” or “opponent” – but by environmentalists and conservationists who observe dog behaviour objectively and scientifically (as in the real world) with no axe to grind, and no vested interests in problem behaviour.
Time to start barking up the RIGHT tree? Long overdue.
The Natural Dog Training Home Kit does just that. If you would like to help liberate more dogs and their owners from this “culture clash”, so that they can connect with and enjoy one another on a more positive and meaningful level – just let me know, and we can work out a plan. We actually work with many families in Kzn. Can you also tell me more about the feeds that you sell, so that we can refer our dog owners to you?
What our dogs are dying to tell us!
Some of our family members have four legs, and some have two. But there is a difference between recognizing the human qualities in dogs - and trying to turn them into humans. As we can observe, in a society that is both superficial and highly commercialized, industries are anthropomorphizing dogs in order to turn dog owners into well trained consumers. And at the same time, create confusion and stress in the dogs, leading to what becomes labeled: “behavior problems”, “disobedience”, “psychosomatic disorders”, “out of the blue” attacks, etc.
Yes, our pet dogs are family members, and they have extremely human qualities - such as the capacity to love and be loyal, be disappointed, happy, jealous, embarrassed, guilty, play mind games…. In fact they have such human qualities that we easily forget that they are animals! Animals that are designed to live in communities that are very similar to human communities, with families, politics, rivalry, power play, compassion, respect, trust, baby sitters when they go hunting, facial expressions, consciences, ground rules to live by... For example – the “plebian” dogs are not allowed to sleep where the “royal” leader sleeps, and only the “royal bitch” is allowed to breed, and no dog is allowed to “sign” (urinate) over the leader’s “signature”. Law and order in a pack of dogs creates unity, and unity in the wild is strength. Our dogs therefore, come into our homes fully equipped with emotions, needs, and social skills that enable them to relate to our emotions, live by our ground rules, and protect their loved ones. It is this mutual identification with one another’s moods, emotions, social skills, need for love, etc. that is the reason why we are drawn to one another - because we can identify with one another.
And this potential for compatibility is what allows this unique inter-species relationship (cano-sapiens and homo-not-so-sapiens) to co exist as if it were the most natural thing in the world. And then we try and turn them into humans by projecting all our hang-ups onto them. Like trying to force them all into the same unnatural shape. Sound familiar? They get caught up in the industry that encourages (nay, blackmails) everyone to try and reach an unattainable goal, because while they are trying to reach it – they are parting with their bucks. And the “don’t be satisfied with the shape you (and your dog) are mean to be” industry is mega, mega bucks. (Or even the shape of your car.)
The above citation proves that there is no co-operation between the veterinary and the human medical professions. It is shown above how certain feeding programmes in dogs are causing aggression, yet this information is being completely ignored by the veterinary, and the behaviour professions. They continue to feed dogs diets that cause aggression and the medical profession continues to publish this information which the vets still continue to ignore - while children are being killed by these “souped-up” dogs - and the dogs continue to be euthanased.
One of the reasons, therefore, why the dog aggression problem continues to escalate unabated is the lack of co-operation between the vets and the medical profession, as well as the lack of cooperation between the vets and the African Wild Life Foundation, who study predation in wolves and wild dogs, and are published in the National Geographic showing a picture of dogs after a hunt “bursting at the seams” with satiation, and the vets who state that famine conditions where ribs show on emaciated dogs is normal.
The Veterinary University academics are blocking all research that is being done in this area, simply because it does not come from their laboratories, but from real life. They therefore call it “unscientific”. (Their definition of scientific not being that it is tried, tested, proven and empirical – but that they said it.)
Just because one has not personally experienced something it does not mean that it does not exist. We are talking here about far more than someone who does not have qualifications in dog behaviour. We are talking about giving the dog owners the knowldege they need and are turning to our head ethologist, Pam Whyte in order to understand their dogs and enjoy them, as well as keep their children safe from dog attack. The issue of understanding dogs and learning how to co-exist peacefully with them is not about “where the knowledge was gained” – but whether their kids are safe and their dog is a pleasure to them. (And vice versa.)
It takes more than an “interest” in dog behaviour to reduce the shocking euthanasia rate in domestic pets (euthanasia as a result of behaviour problems is the biggest killer of the domestic dog), and to reverse the spiralling incidence of dog attacks on innocent people (2,000 people a day are attacked by dogs in South Africa alone.) It takes an intimate knowledge on how the domestic dog carries out his hunting functions in our society – which behaviour therapists openly admit to not having.
When Ondersteport University Library received Pam Whyte’s first book ‘n Hond vir die Huis and a copy of my video that was shown at the 6th International Conference on Human-Animal Interactions in Monacco, they made her an honarary member. This has enabled Pam Whyte to study this subject in depth. Professor Haupt says in Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists , Dr. Marder, Seminars in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (Small Animal), and Dr. Beck: the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association all admit to not being able to cure dog aggression. Dr. O’Farrel from the U.K. also says: “Aggression is like Diabetes, incurable.”
Just because they cannot find the solution to the dog aggression problem by studying rats in laboratories, it does not mean the solution cannot be found by studying wild dogs in East Africa and domestic dogs within their own home. Which is what Pam Whyte has been doing over the past 40 years.
In 1967 she opened her consultancy in Johannesburg. She published her first book on dog behaviour in 1975. In 1978 it was published in London and the London Times stated: “This book makes a much needed new approach to dog owning. The book is now in Japanese and in Braille. She has also been invited to write papers on dog psychology by universities in France, the Guide Dogs in France use the video that Pam Whyte made, Understand and Correct Your Dog’s Behaviour. Finding that the positive and negative reinforment techniques that the university teaches on dog behaviour was not giving them a high enough success rate in their sniffer dogs, Denel asked her to teach their dog unit her natural techniques.This is what you do when your dog bites and shows aggression toward other dogs.
Meanwhile, she studied the hunting behaviour of the wild dog with the assistance of Anglia Survival from BBC TV and discovered how to reverse predation. With this knowledge she has cured many vicious dogs of aggression, including 4 killer Pitt Bulls in Namibia.
In 1985 she noticed that dog aggression started increasing, and approached the SABC to assist her to identify this problem and offer a solution. A.D. Viljoen (who ran Network at the time) told her: “Let’s wait until it happens.”
It happened. So in the mid 1990’s, she approached Freek Robinson to ask him please to let her reach parents and dog owners through his programme in order to teach them how to keep their children safe from dog attack. He said: “Let’s wait for another child to be killed, then we can do the programme.” He didn’t. The mainstream academic dog system continue to pretend they did not know what was causing the dog attacks.
Whyte then approached Professor Odendaal who was head of the newly opened department of behaviour therapy to ask him to assist her with reaching families with this proven, scientific knowledge on how the domestic dog is carrying out his hunting strategies in our homes and in society, and how to both prevent and reverse it. He told her: “I do not see it as my job to save children from dog attack.” (Verbatim quote. This was while he was planning to run his seminars on “how to prevent dog attacks”.)
She then approached the head of the Onderstepoort University’s public relations department with statistics from Medical Journals which proved that the new feeding programmes were activating the domestic dog’s predatory instincts and he told her that “The Medical Journals are talking hogwash”. (Again, verbatim.)
Meanwhile, she gave talks at hospitals, schools and libraries, SPCA’S, dog training schools and has written articles widely in magazines on this subject. Only to be met with threats from the Veterinary profession in South Africa who openly claim that they cannot cure dog aggression. Where a woman in Durban was eaten alive by family pets, she was interviewed by the newspaper and when they printed the real reason for the attack (predation), their was a huge outcry by the conventional dog system demanding that the article be retracted and that in future, she be gagged by the press.
Meanwhile, overseas, Pam Whyte’s essential, life-saving work is being recognised. The Child Accident Prevention Trust in the U.K. approached her to write an article in their magazine on how to own a child/friendly dog, Animal Protection Institute in America asked her to write an article for the holistic vets in America on providing a non-surgical, nonpharmaceutical alternative to preventing excessive barking in the domestic dog. (Excessive barking is frequently a sign that a dog’s hunting instincts have been roused.) They published my paper on how to shut down the hunt and therefore remove the dog’s urge to call other dogs in the neighbourhood to his “hunt”.
Pam Whyte’s latest book Living with an Alien (which although it received rave reviews both in South Africa and Australia, was called “despicable” by local behaviour therapists. It has saved many dogs from being euthenased and many children from dog attacks and is now being published in both America and the UK. Pam Whyte continually receive letters from grateful parents and dog owners telling her what a change this insight into how the dog’s mind and instincts function has brought into their lives.
After the book came out, (Melvyn who was then the PRO for the South African Veterinary Association) then asked her to hold a clinic at a dog school in Johannesburg where they could not cure dogs of aggression with their conventional dog training methods. On arrival, there were dozens of video cameras, and she was handed a Pitt Bull that wanted to kill every dog in sight. In less than an hour, the dog was friendly with all dogs. Pam Whyte was not paid. Melvyn went on air two days later and told listeners that “if anyone tells you they can cure a Pitt Bull of aggression toward other dogs they are lying.” (He had obviously not caught her drift, so to speak – Pam is not there to boast – she is here to keep children safe, improve the quality of the dog’s and the owners’ lives and reduce the euthanasia rate.”)
Sometime later she was the object of a smear campaign that was instigated by her jealous “opposition”. On air she was “radio ambushed” and Melvyn tried to catch her out once again. Which he cannot do because her work stands up to all tests, and therefore is empirical and proven. On this programme, he stated that she “did not approve of dog training”. She pointed out that he could see for himself how dog training did not work on the video’s he took at the clinic where she cured the aggressive Pitt Bull.
He then said: “We do not have a video of you curing a Pitt Bull of aggression. We have a video of you confusing a Pitt Bull.” Pam Whyte challenged him to a public viewing of this video, but he said it is “lodged with his lawyers”. If this video did prove Pam to be a fake, why lock it away? Her own demo video’s where you see two dogs trying to kill a child, then totally trustworthy with her two weeks later can also be shown because the time has now come for the other side (her’s) to be heard. No commands or discipline were used to cure these killer dogs - only scientific Wolfpack Blueprint – Dog Language - for hunting and communicating. And on this same video is a wolf trying to hunt a child, then choosing not to, as Pam Whyte “told” the wolf (the same way as she “told the Pitt Bull” at the clinic) that the child was not prey. This was done by using pack signals to cancel the hunt through applying the Wolfpack Blueprint for hunting and communicating. It caused the wolf’s perception of the child to alter from that of a prey to that of a puppy – making him permanently trustworthy with children. (Provided his fight or flee nervous system was not activated again.)
The Wolfpack Blueprint is very user/friendly, requires the use of no force or gimmicks and the dog understands it instantly. As can be seen on my videos or at my clinics and workshops. The dog does not have to learn anything - he is not taught not to kill or bite children. His desire to harm them is removed.
This knowledge can never be acquired in a laboratory and that is what Dr. Luus, Dr. Greenburg and the conventional dog system in South Africa who study rats in order to understand dogs have against Pam. She did not learn how to cure aggression and keep children safe by conducting her research in man’s laboratory – she learnt it in Nature’s laboratory. Rats don’t chase squirrels up trees.
Pam Whyte now publicly ask the veterinary profession to support her in this vital work of reducing the incidence of dog attacks on children by allowing her to reach parents and dog owners with this essential, proven and scientific information and to cease resisting and threatening her in her efforts to keep children safe. In spite of their smear and blocking campaigns, Pam is still willing to share the results of her independent research with all vets and behaviour therapists in South Africa on how not to arouse the predatory instincts of the domestic dog, and how to diffuse them once they have been unwittingly roused by families who do not have access to information on how their dog’s hunting instincts work.
Because the subject Pam is discussing is so controversial, and contains life-saving information, she supports all of the above with verifiable documentation. This is what you do when your dog bites and shows aggression toward other dogs.
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