An honest look at accidental shut down, attempts at recovery, and apology скачать в хорошем качестве

An honest look at accidental shut down, attempts at recovery, and apology

We often post exclusively “positive” videos to social media. Whether it is branding, showing off,, trying to rehearse positive thoughts, or celebrate successes, we tend to post “victories”. I want to share this as a realistic training moment - we were not able to recover and he was subdued even eating his dinner. There is a very jarring feeling watching collaboration collapse. It can hurt our feelings, sting our pride, or make us devastated. We can push too hard because we were jiving so well just a moment ago. We can demand, over-facing our animals and driving them into compliance and learned helplessness. You will notice I apologized. Yes, apologized. Apologizing for offending (even if unintentional) is not a weakness, it is a strength. Not apologizing when you know you offended someone is rude and selfish (in my opinion). Tomorrow I need to rebuild the trust we lost. That I caused us to lose. I ran into his past history with the whip. You’ll see he puts me between the whip and his own body, which indicates to me that he is afraid of the whip itself (not that he thinks I will use it on him). I think I also caused a bit of expectancy violation; I don’t hit to punish or use the whip to trigger flight reflexes. So why would I, after he offered me so much, do something he perceived as so aggressive? This training session today started off so, so well. First time seeing the perch, and he offered so much behaviour! He even silly played beside me. One thing I want to work on is his rear legs; specifically picking them up. I am challenged by his size and my arm reach; I wanted to use the whip to extend my reach to point. It’s a common groundwork practice; and one that I will need to be creative to overcome. I do not think I will try this again; it made him miserable, and even knowing it exists causes him so much stress he can’t eat. I don’t need it, so I will likely throw this particular idea away.