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Things to Avoid While Training Your Cat

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Cat training or disciplining is often regarded as a difficult task. Cats posses a smaller brain ability than dogs, but yet they flaunt a distinctive insight. Hence, cat owners avoid certain things while training their kitty to develop a well-disciplined and controlled cat.

At first avoid damaging the all-significant rapport of faith with the cat, as this link is the prime thing to an equally satisfying long-term cat-human rapport. And, also conduct a gentle training session with love.

While training the cats, avoid attempting things on them that they do not desire, unless it is essential and inevitable for their health and comfort, or for the safeguard of other home members.

Avoid conducting any terror-based or punishment-based training. Also, avoid any deprivation-based training. For example, avoid making the cats perform forcefully for their chow or playtime or any of their required stuffs, enthralling the owners support and admiration.

Other Evitable Things:

Avoid exaggerating any training session, and figure out a time for when to halt.

For example, while attempting the cats to get their teeth brushed, avoid insisting to place the fingers or feline toothbrush in their mouth, because if they become apparently irritated then the cat owners are not just risking the canines of cats to be punctured, but it will also result in future disapproval by the cats for any activity.

Main concern here is to have the cats perform the things they desire to do. In case, the cats are exhausted, tired or are disturbed by the training exertions, avoid any further training session, and leave them alone for wandering or relaxing.

Subsequent to an awful behavior avoid hitting or slapping the cats, as they will deem it as a kind of play, or can receive any mind-set difficulty due to such physical abuse. Instead substitute such abusing training treatments with a loud sound or water guns to apprehend them the mistakes.

While training, if the cats refrain from utilizing the litter box, do not penalize, spank, or shout on them. Because, such type of chastisement hoist the stress modes of cats, as they will sense that they are rebuked just for the mere act of elimination and not for the location.

Also, avoid ignoring the environment, act as a detective, as cats are likely to eliminate outside the litter box also due to certain traumatic things or activities done at home.

Choosing Elementary School Photographers – Part I

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If you look on the wall of any mother’s home you will find cherished memories framed for every year. No matter how silly the photo, school photographs are remembered for a lifetime. Like most things that have a deep rooted tradition, technology has made elementary school pictures much more exciting. Many schools go with the traditional school pose for their fall program. But did you know a lot of schools use spring pictures as a fundraiser and have fun doing it?

Things to Consider when Choosing an Elementary School Photographer

Before you can think about how school photography can be a great fundraiser, you first have to choose the right photographer. For school photographers in San Diego, most decisions are made by the administrative staff, while others are left to the PTO or PTA. However, with school staffs being spread so thin these days, many schools are leaving the decision to the PTO.

There are so many school photographers available today that the decision to choose a school photographer can be a difficult one. A school photographer in San Diego is going to have a different program than a local company in a small town.

Listen to word of mouth. Good school photographers will have people talking about them. They will also have a good selection of experienced, professional school photographers to run your school picture day. It is always good to take a look at the company’s website to see their overall philosophy.

Something else to consider when choosing a photographer is who is actually taking the school pictures. You might want to ask for sample pictures taken by the actual photographers who will be at your school picture day. Many schools ask to meet the photographers who will be working at their school, which isn’t a bad idea. You want a photographer who will allow the kids to relax, because when kids are relaxed they take better pictures. This in turn leads to parents who are satisfied with their school pictures.

Another consideration when selecting a photography company is how much work will be required of the school. Many companies provide all the staff needed for picture day and require no volunteers from the school. When a company takes most of the work off of the school they are well valued.

Other photographers prefer teacher and parent volunteer involvement on picture day. There is a rational explanation for this, that the parents and staff know the students better. However, if your photographer is experienced in taking elementary school pictures, the kids will warm up to them very quickly. Plus, parents are not experienced in running a school picture day, that should be the job of the school photographer.

Training Your Dog Or Puppy With Hand Signals

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If you are looking at giving your dog an all-round training regime then you should include training with hand signals. Did you know that 60% of training is taken from body language cues? If you pay attention to what your body is doing when you are training your dog or puppy, you may find that there are already cues that they take from you.

For example, many people take off from the same foot when they are stepping off. If you are training your dog to heel, you will find that they are taking their cue off the actions of your feet rather than the voice command of heel.

Our voices change in volume and tone – our body language is much simpler to interpret by a dog. Dogs use body language to communicate with themselves, so it is how they are accustomed to giving and receiving communication – it’s hard wired into their DNA.

What are the steps to begin training with hand signals?

Train with hand signals as well as verbal first. Always use a short command, preferably one word. Be consistent – otherwise you will confuse your dog.

Teach your dog to sit. One way to do this is to hold their collar and raise a treat in front of their nose. The dog’s nose will follow the treat and his rear will hit the ground into a sit position. Use the verbal command “sit” to help the dog understand.

Once the basic action is understood, you can add the hand signal to the training. You should Stand up, and wave one open hand past the dog’s face toward your chest, palm up. Give the hand signal command again as you say the command “sit”.

Continue to use the voice command coupled with the hand signal until your dog understands. Then continue with the hand signal only. Any training takes time, but with persistence and patience you will be able to train your dog with hand signals.

Some Other Hand Signals You May Like To Try

Stay

Hold your palm towards their nose in a “stop” pose. Your dog should see the flat of your hand directly in front of their face.

Come

Hold your arm out like you are shaking someone’s hand, bend your elbow and pass your hand across your chest until you touch your opposite shoulder. Do this movement slowly – you want to communicate clearly to your dog.

Lay or drop

Place your hand in front of you with your hand flat and the palm facing downwards. Drop your hand with your palm still flat in front of the dog as though you are pushing down on something.

Initially you may need to exaggerate the movements and start further down at your dog’s eye level to be sure of gaining their attention. As your dog progresses you can stand more upright and give the command from your own comfortable height.

Training with Repetition Gets Results

Like everything, repetition and positive reinforcement will give you the best results. Consistency and clear signals will help your dog understand what you need from them in your training. You can train anywhere once your dog has the basics. Before you give them their food, when you let them into the house, before you go for a walk and put on their leash. The list is endless for opportunities for you to train your dog or puppy.