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running time: 5hr.
copyright: 2007 Healthy Dog Productions
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DVD SET... Patty
Ruzzo was a competition obedience winner using traditi0l13l training
methods in the 1980s & early 90s, when she decided to (as she put it)
"take the leash off of my dog and see just how good a trainer I really
was." Not having any familiarity with behavioral science, or operant
conditioning, she called her new approach: Training with Love (and
"cookies"). Her motto was, "Got a problem? Put a cookie on it." Her idea
of ignoring a mistake, and simply continuing to help the dog and reward
the correct behavior was revolutionary at that time 'and it totally came
from her HEART. In 1994'when she saw a video presentation by Ted Turner,
she wrote to me that she "felt as if she had been launched into the
future of dog training." And indeed she had been.
Although Patty never liked things too
scientific, was resistant to using scientific terms and didn't use a
clicker, she now had the scientific basis for why what she was doing was
working (and why some of it wasn't working). Patty was a great,
funny, engaging speaker, and put on seminars around the country. She was
always smiling, always positive with people and with her human students
and seminar attendees as well as with the dogs. She was a big believer
and proponent of positive MENTAL preparedness for competition which was
the basis of her Positively Ringwise CD. (Ted was always a little
appalled at Patty's technique of carrying the treats in her mouth and
spitting them at the dogs. But her aim was remarkable, and she thought
he was REALLY just jealous that he couldn't spit fish at the whales.)
In 1996 we broadcast a 2 day satellite seminar with Patty, Ted and
Leslie Nelson, called the "Power of Positive Training." The video tapes
that came from that broadcast were a foundation for many of today's
"positive" trainers. Patty's part in that video and the sequel videos
recorded the following year at the "Proof Positive" seminar are the 2
DVDs in this collection. |
