Jan Fennell

Kiarazoom · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:37 am Post subject: Jan Fennell

Anyone got opinions on this amichien method of training?

Ive just booked one to come and work with us and would love feedback from anyone who has tried it.......good or bad!

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thanks

Weim · Housebroken Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 60

I've read her books - a lot of it is just basic sensible advice which helps, and can do very well, and some of it is tosh. As with everything, take what works for you and your dog and leave the rest.

My gripe about JF is that she thinks every dog is the same - I watched her on TV with a couple with two weims - she never took their personality and breed characteristics into account at all presumably because she didn't know them.

Kiarazoom · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:13 am Post subject:

Wow what can I say, overnight success!
Guy arrived and set to work, Kodi's basic problem ( and I can see it with hindsight ) is that he came to our home, looked around and found no Alpha so had to fulfill the role himself.

Everything was really well explained by one of her teachers, he spent 4hrs with us, has provided a 10page report and is on the end of the phone for support for Kodiak's whole life but best of all it isnt just jargon its working!

Kodi was just begining to escalate (6mths old) he had gone deaf, he was begining to try to hump things, he was starting to cry when crated, he was begining to destroy things (like my walls) he was acting out in so many ways.

We put the teaching into practice Sunday, firstly with the teacher then on our own, Sunday night for the first time he went to bed without crying, Monday morning he woke without barking till we came down, he sat and waited and he has repeat this both Monday night and Tuesday morning. When I asked him to leave the kitchen whilst I cooked, he did so ... seriously just turned on his heal went just outside the door and lied down to wait. Hes turned from not being affectionate to being happy to be fussed (on our terms) and I had a whole telephone conversation last night without him acting out to make me hang up and give him attention.

It isnt about him being a Weim but a dog and I cant recommend it enough!

Kiarazoom Very Happy

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waitingonmyweim · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:39 am Post subject:

Wow! That's great - I'm glad you're getting such good results!

Wrench · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject:

So with the "looking aorund and not finding an alpha he fulfilled the role" do they put you in that alpha place or anything? I do beleive in being the alpha over my dog...the same with my horses when I train and it has worked for years. Michael ends up beign a softy at tiems and I can see when Wrnehc takes advantage of that and becomes dominate over him...I tell Michael that he's doing that and be firm, etc...and Wrench totaly changes. Now if Michale could stay consistant=)

Kiarazoom · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:07 am Post subject:

Hi

Yes they teach you basically how to change things you do to give him the right signals all the time, so far still so good.

I particularly noticed yesterday that when he was concerned about my daughter leaving he started to go nuts but then was looking at me, you could see him weighing up my reaction and he saw I was ok and settled down. Normally this would not be the case!

Another thing I have noticed is that we have struggled to get Kodi - for want of better wording - solid when going to the loo, overnight this has changed and I do believe it may well have been stress causing the upsets ... we shall see but as I said so far so good.

Very Happy