30 Mar 2007 (Friday)
The Koehler Method of Dog Training |
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| M e t h o d | S i n c e | Chief animal trainer | Comments | ||||
| The Koehler Method of DOG TRAINING
used in WALT DISNEY'S | 1947 by William R Koehler Chief animal trainer with Disney Studios for 21 years |
Personally coached Harry Quek |
authorised to conduct this program in
Singapore | ||||
" Mr Koehler, Director of Obedience Training
Roy Rogers series :
The Ugly Dachshund, The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson, Big Red,
The Incredible Journey, Boomerang-Dog of Many Talents, and
with many other celebrated animal actors like
One of the most glorious of canine activities has been acting as guides
for the blind. The first centers for this humanitarian & compassionate
training arose more or less contemporaneously in France & Germany in 1915.
They were designed to help soldiers returning from the front with impaired
vision. Other centers followed immediately all over the world.
Cynology is the study of canines. The dog is man's oldest
domesticated animal. The 1st recorded Dog Show was held in 1859.
A dog's heart beats approximately 92 - 100 per minute.
The average normal temperature of a dog is 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
Most dogs have 42 teeth - 20 Upper, 22 Lower.
Its sense of smell is the most developed of the dog's senses. The dog's
life is to a large extent guided and conditioned by odors: for a dog the world
is composed of dozens of odoriferous trails that overlap, intersect, and change
continually. In this confusion of good and bad smells, the dog can differentiate
perfectly odors that man cannot even notice. For example, any dog can detect the
presence of a drop of blood in 5 liters of water and can easily pick up and
differentiate the smells of the meat of the pig, cow, horse, sheep, rabbit, and
so forth, even thought they are very similar to one another. In the same way,
the dog can easily distinguish the odors of different people, even though they
may be as closely related as twins, and can follow the tracks of animals even
when overlaid by foul-smelling substances. (Some experts contend that the act
of wagging the tail has the practical function of spreading the dog's own
olfactory signals in moments of joy.)
Also highly developed is the dog's sense of hearing, which can pick up even
ultrasonic vibrations. These are the vibrations of the highest frequency, which
the human ear cannot detect. In war and in police work, man has often had recourse
to ultrasonic signals to give orders at a distance to a trained dog. An enemy,
of course, is unable to hear these signals. In addition, the same sound that a man
can barely hear at 13 feet a dog can hear at more than 80 feets and can locate its
source.
Also noteworthy is a dog's ability to discriminate between different sounds,
even when the difference are almost imperceptible. A good example of this is the
dog's ability to pick out the sound of its master's car from among all others of
the same make and model.
The Iditarod is a 1200-mile dog sled race.
It may save his life !
" Obedience training / Dog Problems ! "
Training & Development
Director & Principal Consultant
Harry Quek
" . . . out of his heart will flow rivers of living water . "
( John 7 : 38 )
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