PDTE 2013 Summer Newsletter

Fellow PDTE members,
Laying here before you, is the newest issue of the PDTE
news! This magazine will arrive at your doorstep 4 times a
year, and is put together with content from us members, for
us members! That means that we need your input to inform
and educate others on: experiences, books or articles you
have read, seminars or workshops you have attended, and
things you have done (dog wise). If you have an article to
share with your fellow members, maybe with a nice photo
or 2… please send it to fenna@doggz.nl so we can use it in
the next issue of the PDTE news. Also if you have this brilliant
picture of your (or ‘a) dog, please share it with us!
I wish to thank the former editor (Raili) and Adelaide for all
the work they have done on the PDTE news up until now,
and I realize that there is a lot of work and input needed
to get it done on time, looking great and having wonderful
content to make it fun to read. Fenna (who does all the layout
and graphic work), and I will do our best to insure you
enjoy this newsletter for many issues to come.
That big yellow ball that used to be high above us, seems
to finally have returned to its rightful spot in the European
sky… summer is finally here! We (dog people) usually get
very excited when this time arrives, because we get to do
all this fun stuff with our canine (and somewhat less hairy)
friends! But this also means that the temperatures drastically
increase and we have to tell people to watch out for
ticks (check the dog on a daily bases), don’t exercise them
so much (they usually do way to much already), and don’t
leave them in the car! Not even for a minute…
Today I heard on the Dutch radio that a car was found
in the bleeding sun with a dog inside outside a big store.
Some people saw that the dog was nearly dead, and called
the police. They came, broke a window and took the poor
(nearly dead) dog to the police station. When the rightful
owner showed up at the police station to pick up their dog,
they were fined € 500,- for animal abuse! I was pleased to
Dylan (one of our dogs) takes his
daily skin care treatment
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hear that the authority did not take this lightly. Although
personally I would first brake the window and rescue the
dog, and then call the police…
Oh, before I forget… on facebook I was following a group
that is called “dog observation skills” or something of this
order, I was added by a “friend” and sometimes I see these
post go by that contain a picture or short film of a dog
that gets scrutinized by all these people saying: Ummmm
yesss, I see a whale eye…. Tight muscles in the facial area….
Ummmm maybe the ears are turned backwards… Ummm
yessss…. Black spot on face with two holes in it… Ummmm
Oh, it’s a nose! No really, these people scrutinize all these
details but really can’t see the dog anymore! Last Friday I
saw they posted a dreadful short film of a man with a dog
on a choke chain standing in a store talking to someone
else. The man really yanks the choke chain compulsively
every 5 seconds no matter what the dog does (he is not
even watching the dog when he does this), and you see the
dog asking for help and you see him miserably waiting for
the pain to come… I read the remarks of this post… Everyone
starts summing up details of his body language! It’s
like watching someone get tortured and saying, Ummmm
yesss…. Blood from left ear…. Fingers have funny shape after
the thingie with the hammer… Hmmmm, tense facial muscles,
perhaps a little whale eye there? Hmmm….
Get my drift, dear readers? So I replied to this post, saying:
OMFG, why does nobody do anything about this dog being
abused!... and you know what? They removed my reply… not
because of the third of the first 4 letters, but because they
could not get emotionally involved…
So please fellow PDTE members, promise me this thing…
please DO be emotionally involved! Finally this is what
makes us “human” after all…
Cheers,
Ed van den Berg
Greetings from
member countries
The
Netherlands
Meeting Dutch and Belgian PDTE members
On April the 14th 2013 a meeting took
place in The Netherlands for all the
Dutch and Belgian PDTE members.
The meeting was organized to meet
each other, to get to know each better
and to exchange new experiences. We
were happy to see the positive
reactions on the invitations and that a
large portion of the members was
present on this day.
We started with a introduction round.
All who were present are mainly
trainers and behavioural therapist. During
the introduction round, we found
out we all are very busy already, which
is certainly a good sign. We talked
extensively about the way of teaching,
training and managing our dogs
schools.
We also agreed we wanted to talk
about a number of topics. So we
talked about the following topics, with
a nice lunch in between:
• Start with a Presentation by Ellen
Huijs she showed us self-made dogs
banks
• Discussion: ideal day care for dogs
realize by Ria
• Discussion: Bite incidents and
seizure in the Netherlands
• We create a list of vets, medical/
therapists for members, who do
good work in the Netherlands/
Belgium
• Shared upcoming events in the
Netherlands/Belgium and shared
experiences of events we visits
• Discussion: can each dog(breed) live
in a city or even in the Netherlands?
• Cases discussion: Lunging (shepherds)
dogs.
While discussing a topic we exchange
each other’s experiences and good
ideas regarding the topic.
On the side, we updated ourselves
with the latest movements in the dog
world in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Every PDTE member of the Netherlands
and Belgium have received an
extensive report of the day, specially
made by Ellen Huijs.
We had a lovely day, which is definitely
worth repeating. To keep the team
spirit high, we want to rebuild the
website of the AGM (pdte.nl) after the
AGM in Netherlands. We will use the
site to promote the Dutch and Belgian
members and our activities.
Agnes Degen and Ellen Huijs
Because we don’t see each other on a
very regular base, it was very pleasant
to be amongst professionals with the
same thoughts again. Also, it was very
good and nice to hear and share, how
to deal with time management or just
how other fill in the classes and
trainings.
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