22. - 23.5.2010
was lecture with
Turid Rugaas in Czech Republic
topics: Calming signals and Stress in dogs

place: Czech University of Live Sciences
Prague - Suchdol
- RKU ("kruhová hala")

 
 

Calming signals
The calming signals are a part of the dogs' language. As social animals, they have a well developed and very varied way of communication, using mimicry, body language and sounds. They use their language to communicate with each other and with us, telling about their emotions and other things they want to tell. Some of the language consist of socalled distance-creating signals, to make others keep away, while the calming signals show politeness, can cut off conflicts before they have started, and get out of conflicts already started. The dogs' variety of communication help them to live in peace and quiet within the pack, and help solving conflicts. We will look at the signals and how to understand dogs, and also how to use the language ourselves, with pictures and film.
 

Stress in dogs
It is important for us to understand how stress works in the body, and why we and dogs get stressed. We will look at the physiology, and the
consequences of stress, and how to avoid the long term stress that makes us sick and having behavioural problems like fear, aggressions and social problems. Many. if not most, of the behaviour problems we get in dogs, are a result of stress, so we have to learn about reasons for stress, how to see the symptoms, and most important: how to avoid it or help the dog to
destress.


Turid Rugaas
Turid Rugaas is an internationally renowned trainer and writer who has devoted her life to dogs, their behavior and their well-being.

The Norwegian dog trainer has worked with dogs for many years and studied the body language of dogs for more than a decade. After a project where Turid and a colleague observed dogs carefully, recording their behaviour on video and in photographs, she became well-known around the world for her work on the calming signals. And Turid Rugaas is now one of the world's leading experts on dog behavior.

In the critically acclaimed book On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals, she shares with us her insights on the fascinating world of communication between dogs, as well as dogs and their owners.

Turid lives and works in Norway where she owns and runs a dog training school, Hagen Hundeskole. Being a popular speaker, she is spending more time abroad than at home, speaking and presenting programs at conferences, seminars and workshops.
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