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If dogs could talk, they might disagree that there is, “ nothing there.”

It’s been a while but ready to get this page back up and running. My apologies, but life has been rough (looong looong divorce that has taken up far too much of me and not yet done) I’ve been madly working on getting the skills to take this idea where I wanted it to go. I’m excited to post the first. I know, drawing needs to improve a lot more. But it’s time.
Canine perspective series one! When you ask your dog to watch you, make sure they can see you. In heel position, your dog can see your elbow. And your butt.
The dog is has to move in front of you in order to do eye contact. Thus out of heel position. If the stay in heel, they cannot watch you. They have the “elbow view”.

A little something from one of my new blog posts on what natural dog care is like.
https://awesomedogs.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/mama-dogs-dont-use-treats/

AVERSIVE. It has such a mean tone for a technical little term. It has a habit of stating wars. One person says that a technique is aversive and very often someone screams, "I am not abusive."
I suspect that that similarities between the words leads to confusion between the meanings.
To say that someone is abusive is quite the insult. "That/you is abusive."
Aversive has a boarder stroke. Abuse is aversive. Aversive includes all things that someone would want to escape or avoid. Doing chores to avoid nagging? Nagging is an aversive.
The problem with the confusion is that starts to interfere with any meaningful discussion. What is aversive to a dog? Does a dog training method use an aversive?
Positive punishment involves aversives. The dog is trying to avoid the unappealing consequence for misbehaviour. "If you pull on leash, I'll leash correct you."
In negative reinforcement, the animal is exposed to an aversive. that same aversive stops - giving relief and respite. "If you are quiet, we can move away from that scary thing."
Negative punishment does not use an aversive but it is an aversive event. The animal looses something appetitive. Timeouts for nipping are a common example.
If we fly in a rage each time someone correctly uses the term "aversive" then we can't talk about how to use fewer aversives in our training.
Next time you see the word, cool your jets and assess the exercise carefully. If aversives were blatantly abusive, they'd be easy to spot. Instead, they are sneaky little buggers, hiding in plain sight.