Thanks for visiting and checking out our blog. If you've read "Conversations With Courtney" already, we thank you and hope you enjoyed it as much as we loved writing it. This has been a story in the making for quite a long time. Courtney wanted to set the record straight on how we should be communicating with our beloved dogs. This is just the beginning, as we are on a mission to create a world wide change to a compassionate approach in interacting with and teaching our dogs. Day after day I am hearing how confused and frustrated people are with training advice they are receiving that entails some sort of force. Whether it be choke chains, prong collars or shock collars most people want another way but have trouble finding it. There is no reason to resort to force with any animal. If 10,000lb killer whales can be trained without force or intimidation so can our 5lb, 20lb, our 100lb dogs.
My wife Tamara needed to get something at the bookstore today so I went along for the ride. While she was searching for what she came for I was just walking around to waste some time and this book just seemed to draw me right in. I didn't even know what section I was in, I just picked it up and after reading the back cover and a couple of pages I realized that the book picked me. It's about an animal behaviorist that trained and lived with a lion. He was so sick and tired of the abusive techniques he witnessed every day in his industry (animal training for the entertainment industry) he decided to prove to everyone that abuse was not needed. From the few pages I read it seems he raised and trained a lion cub without an ounce of force, using only love and compassion. The lion lived until 18 and there are amazing photos of this lion with children, and many actors and actresses. I will let you know more about it as soon as I get a chance to read it, but I already feel like he is a kindred spirit. Again thank you for visiting and if you have not read the book and would like to check it out you can visit www.conversationwithcourtney.com or www.teamcanine.com. Talk to you soon..... Brad & Courtney
