Dog Training: Nov 26, 2007

Monday, November 26, 2007

MPAA Dogs Will Hunt Down Your Pirated DVDs

Lucky and Flo are a pair of black Labrador Retrievers, notable for being the first animals trained to detect optical discs by scent. They are sponsored by the MPAA and FACT, as part of an initiative to combat copyright infringement relating to motion pictures and DVD discs.

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Meet Midge, A 7-Pound Police Dog!

The Chihuahua-rat terrier mix is being trained by a department in Ohio to sniff out pot. Debbye Turner watched Midge in action, and got an explanation from the sheriff who intends to use her to sniff out drugs.

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Psycho tries to kill family, steps in front of train to commit suicide

McDermott, 39, shot his girlfriend in the head with a .44-caliber revolver as she lay in bed, killing her. He also allegedly shot in the head two of the woman's three daughters, and killed the family dog. He left the scene and drove to commuter rail tracks, where he stood between the rails and shot himself seconds before he was crushed by a train.

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Training Your Girlfriend

A girlfriend can make a best friend and ideal companion, but like any bitch (female dog, that is), she needs to be taught how to act around the house. So you have to set the ground rules early by enrolling her in your own private obedience school.

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He's being so BAD! How do I ignore him?

Successfully ignoring your dog when he is engaged in undesirable behaviour is a key part of the positive training method. Learn how to do this in an gentle and effective way.

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Miniature Guide HORSES for the blind

The website of the first charity group to train mini horses to guide the blind. They are housebroken and live much longer than guide dogs. It's cool and very surreal-- Check out the photos of the mini horses wearing little sneakers as they lead their owner!

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Honeybees join the bomb squad

The latest advance in bomb-sniffing technology relies on simple devices — honeybees. "Honeybees are as good as dogs," Haarmann says. The trick, it turns out, is training the little critters to detect bomb scents. Some bees, exposed to the scents of bomb ingredients and rewarded with sugar water, get it right away."

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Day in Pictures

Prince William graduates from the UK's Sandhurst military training academy, in a ceremony attended by the Queen,in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, men wait to pit their animals against each other in a dog-fighting match.

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Takeru Kobayashi, despite severe jaw injury, vows to compete in competition

Takeru Kobayashi, who has seriously injured his jaw during training and got a wisdom tooth pulled only one week ago, has vowed to compete in this year's Nathan's Famous Hot-Dog Eating Competition.

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How to choose the best dog training obedience schools

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Two Hunters From Michigan

A real life story of how 2 hunters' hunting went totally awry due to their highly trained dog's right reactions. You call them unlucky, not their day or just plain fools????

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MPAA Uses Dogs to Find Pirated DVDs

Who knew that DVDs even had a distinctive smell? The MPAA in its never-ending quest to keep the world safe from a pirated copy of Star Wars is enlisting well-trained labradors.

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Fish that act like little dogs

This is a club for Parrot Cichlid lovers. What are Parrot Cichlids? They are a hybrid of several types of cichlid species, with just the right mixture of curiosity and aggressiveness to make them fascinating as pets. They are often very friendly, can be trained, and exhibit complex behaviors.

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STASI scent tracking ahead of G8 - "we can smell you're bad"

They tracked down all the bad guys and got a whiff of them - and then trained the dogs to find them if they turn up at the protests. *sings* Cos i'm free...

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New York Couple Hires Private Eye to Help Find Lost Dog

Gus the dog was living in a VIP doggie dream. With his own private agent and in training as an advertising model, things were looking bright until he slipped his leash and ran off. Now the dog's owners have mobilized and hired a publicist and a private detective, and they've papered several County towns with posters promising a $2,500 reward.

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World's first anti-piracy dogs sniff out fake DVDs

A $29,000 bounty has been placed on the heads of Lucky and Flo, two black Labrador retrievers that have been trained to detect shipments of pirated DVDs and CDs.

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Lucy learns to run on a treadmill.

If you can't get your mate off of the couch and onto your new treadmill this is a complete how-to video to train your dog to use it. Buying a puppy advice an extra.

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Doggie da Vincis paint abstract works of art - and they're selling

Strapped for cash and looking for a way to keep open her fledgling dog-training academy, Mary Stadelbacher hit upon a bizarre fundraising scheme.

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Michael Vick: Dog Fighting Loser

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Your Dog is trying to Tell you something! Pay ATTENTION!

This is really cute, but has an important message... play with your pets people! They need the attention... otherwise they may just pack up and leave like this dog... funny commercial though... very well trained dog... I liked him looking at the picture - like it was really hard for him to go... lol... too cute.

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Doggy Pedometer ushers in new era of dog training

Tripling as a dog tag, timer, and pedometer, this little gadget has several uses outside of the obvious. Say Scrapps runs away and you want to know how far he went. Or you don't have a pedometer yourself and go jogging with the dog all the time. Or you're a concerned pet owner and want to make sure Scrapps is exercising . . . or

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Basenji Dog Facts

The Basenji dog breed doesn't bark like other dogs. Why this breed doesn't bark remains a mystery. Some believe it's due to a physiological difference from other breeds while others believe Basenjis might have been trained by people not to bark many years ago, and this characteristic was passed down throughout future generations of the breed.

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Selecting a New Dog

... should also be checked when selecting a new dog. To do this, simply hold the dog in your arms and tip him on his back (if size allows). If he struggles consistently, this may mean he will take more patience in training. If he lays there, genuinely calm, you can be rest assured he is mild tempered and will be easy to work with ...

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Seizure Sniffing Dogs and Other Super Pets. I want one.

A dog than can detect a seizure hours before it comes helps a child that gets 20 to a hundred seizures a day. After getting a dog assistant, a kid learns how to write in four days. His parents have been trying to teach him for 4 years... These amazing pets are trained to be more than a kid's best friend. Video included. Amazing.

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SitStayFetch-Dog Obedience Training Secrets e-book.

I'm a dog owner myself and I must admit that I loved this book. This e-book will help you to solve nearly all of your dog's behavior problems. It's one of the best for sure. Read more about it!

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Innovative dog training whistle finally on the market

This multifunctional ultrasonic dog whistle won many international awards for innovation. What is so special in this whistle? Innovation is in the sound regulator which has sixteen positions for selecting sixteen different sound pitches. Selection is fast, easy and precise. It is the ultimate tool for professional dog trainers and pet lovers too

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Reason Magazine - SWAT always shoots the dog in practice, so...

Reason Magazine goes inside a training session with SWAT -- or a t least a video of it -- in which during a training session for barely-introduced raids, every member of the SWAT team shoots the dog target -- while doing mostly well on shooting the odd numbered targets instead of even-numbered targets. Coaches: play as you practice...

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Russian Dog Fights

Yes, it wrong...but not in Russia. These Dogs are friggin HUGE. I thought I have seen some big dogs...OMG!-- I wish someone would release a Nintendogs hack version of this where you can bet and train the dog a little bit like a pokemon and just let em loose..strictly digital(I DON'T SUPPORT THIS BUT A CONSOLE VERSION I WOULD...THERES A DIFFERENCE!)

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Dogs Being Trained to Help Wage Battle Against Bedbugs

She's 9 pounds of curious canine topped by a few tufts of hair. Part Chinese-crested terrier, part who-knows-what. Bedbugs fear her. Absent from the U.S. for so long that some thought they were a myth, bedbugs are back with a vengeance. A dog's sense of smell is so sharp that it can be trained to distinguish

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Source: Michael Vick 'one of the heavyweights' in dogfighting

A confidential source says he's been involved in dog fighting for over 30 years. He's trained and fought -- by his estimation -- around 2,000 pit bulls and was poised to tell about the time in 2000 when his dog squared off against a dog owned by someone he referred to as one of the "heavyweights" of the dog fighting world: Falcon's QB Michael Vick

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Help Training My Service Dog Shadow!!!

in Canada a service dog must meet minimum standards to be certified. Shadow, the dog, may meet these standards, but the handler can not afford to pay a qualified trainer to test Shadow. the handler, Alanna, needs a service dog to take the next step towards independence, but her disability cheque doesn't afford her extras. can we help this team?

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Cat Pushing All 9 Lives Walking Infront a Pack of Police Dogs (Image)

A cat trots in front a pack of obviously well trained Germain Sheppards all intently looking. This goes to show the amount of training police dogs go through and their ability to follow commands even with this tempting situation. The description says "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil

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Malaysia awards medals to pirate-DVD nabbing dogs

Two dogs trained to sniff out DVDs received medals from the Malaysian government on Monday for a five-month campaign that crippled movie pirates. Lucky and Flo, black Labradors trained to detect the chemicals used in making DVDs, were the first animals to receive the outstanding service awards for finding discs stockpiled by pirates

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Dinner Time Fun - Dog Tracking & Nosework

Would you believe that your dog is capable of following a track left by a person and finding them at the end? Did you know you can teach this in the time it takes to feed him his daily meal without any extra training? Many dog owners are learning about the sport of Tracking. Find out if your dog has what it takes to be the next Tracking Champion!

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Man Saves Dog With Mouth-To-Snout Action

Lucy was drowning and turning blue, so Randy Gurchin recalled his Air Force training on mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

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Worlds First Dog To Sniff Out Mobile Phones In Prisons

Meet Murphy the dog! Murphy is part of the police service, he works as a sniffer dog but wait, Murphy's job isn't to sniff out cigarettes that get you high or powder that makes you fly no, Murphy is the worlds first to dog to be trained to sniff out mobile phone. Check out this video of Murphy in action!

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Ladies and Gentlemen. Hitler. Mr. Nice Guy!

Yes, he was....to animals. He loved dogs. While fighting in WWI, he had a dog named Fuschl, who was trained to run up and down ladders. The dog was stolen from him. See, someone stole his dog and look what happened.

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Dogs show human-like learning ability - 26 April 2007 - New Scientist

A well-trained border collie shows 40 other dogs how to pull a lever for food, using her paw. Interestingly, the other dogs demonstrated selective imitation, depending on whether the collie had a toy ball in her mouth or not: With the ball, the dogs seemed to understand "why" the collie used her paw instead of her mouth.

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Michael Vick Accused of Breeding and Selling Sight-Impaired Seeing Eye Dogs

While authorities continue to investigate evidence suggesting that a home owned by Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was involved in a dog fighting operation, new allegations accuse him of breeding, training and selling dozens of seeing eye dogs – or “guide dogs” -- with blurred vision and astigmatism.

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