February 2011
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January 2011
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A Border Collie Knows 1,022 Nouns [NYTimes] →
tumbledore:
“He bought Chaser as a puppy in 2004 from a local breeder and started to train her for four to five hours a day. He would show her an object, say its name up to 40 times, then hide it and ask her to find it, while repeating the name all the time. She was taught one or two new names a day, with monthly revisions and reinforcement for any names she had forgotten.
Border collies are...
September 2010
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unburyingthelead:
doree:
Dogs! Trained by prisoners to help soldiers with PTSD function in the world! HEART IT MELTS:
In August, Jacob Hyde got his service dog, Mya, from Puppies Behind Bars, a program based in New York State that uses prisoners to raise and train dogs for lives of service. The organization has placed 23 dogs with veterans with P.T.S.D. in the last two years, training them...
