Punishment ALWAYS Deranges Behavior.
           "NO!" Does NOT Have Any Behavioral Function
                                   EXCEPT
                        To DERANGE Behaviors.

From: "George von Hilsheimer, Ph.D." <drv...@mindspring.com>
To: "Jerry Howe" <theamazingpuppywiz...@mail.com>
Subject: Alleged Professors of Animal Behavior
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005

Dear Jerry,  I paged through some of the "dog business"
and was astonished at the low quality of opinions arising
from professors of behavior analysis.

I had the very great privilege of meeting Sam Corson
(Pavlov's last Ph.D. student) and his dogs at Ohio
University.  I even got to spend a night at Sam's house.

There is no question but that you are a spiritual brother
to Corson and to Pavlov, both of whom knew that the dog's
great capacity for love was the key to shaping doggie behavior.

Paradoxical reward and paradoxical fixing of attention are
both well documented Pavlovian techniques.  Even so humorless
a chap as B.F. Skinner taught students like the Breland's whose
"The Misbehavior of Organisms" demonstrate the utility of your
methods and their deep roots in scientific (as opposed to
commercial) psychology.

George von Hilsheimer, Ph.D., F.R.S.H.
you may find my resume in Who's Who in
Science and Technology

                             --------------

              From: TooCool (larrym...@hotmail.com)
              The Puppy Wizard's Wits End Training Method

               I have studied canine behavior and dog training
               for years. I have a huge library that covers
               every system of training.

               The Puppy Wizard's (Jerry Howe's) Wits' End
               Training Method is by far the most scientific,
               the most advanced, the kindest, the quickest
               and the most effective training method yet
               discovered.

               It is not an assortment of training tips and
               tricks; it is a logically consistent system.
               Every behavior problem and every obedience
               skill is treated in the same logically
               consistent manner.

               Please study his manual carefully. Please
               endeavor to understand the basis of his system
               and please follow his directions exactly. His
               manual is a masterpiece. It is dense with
               theory, with explanation, with detailed
               descriptions about why behavior problems occur
               and how their solution should be approached.

               One should not pick and choose from among his
               methods based upon what you personally like or
               dislike. His is not a bag of tricks but a
               complete and integrated system for not only
               training a dog but for raising a loving
               companion.

               When I once said to Jerry that his system
               creates for you the dog of your dreams, his
               response was that it produces for your dog the
               owner of his dreams.

               You see, Jerry has discovered that if you are
               gentle with your dog then he will be gentle
               with you, if you praise your dog every time he
               looks at you, then you will become the center
               of your dogs world, if you use Jerry's sound
               distraction with praise, then it takes
               just minutes-sometimes merely seconds-to train
               your dog to not misbehave (even in your
               absence) (Just 15 seconds this morning to train
               my 10 week old puppy to lie quietly and let me
               clip his nails).

               Using Jerry's scientific method (sound
               distraction / praise / alteration / variation)
               it takes just minutes to train you dog to
               respond to your commands.

               What a pleasure it was for me to see my 6 week
               old puppy running as fast has his wobbly little
               legs would carry him in response to my recall
               command-and he comes running every time I call
               no matter where we are or what he is doing.

               At ten weeks old now, my puppy never strains
               upon his leash thanks to Jerry's hot & cold
               exercises and his Family Pack Leadership
               exercises.

              Jerry has discovered that if you scold your dog,
              if you scream at him, if you intimidate him, if
              you hurt him, if you force him then his natural
              response is to oppose you.

              Is Jerry a nut?

             It doesn't make any difference to me whether he
             is or not. It is a logical fallacy to judge a
             person's ideas based upon their personality. As
             far as dogs are concerned, Jerry wears his heart
             upon his sleeve. It touches him deeply when he
             hears of trainers forcing, intimidating, scolding
             or hurting dogs.

             More than that, he knows  that force is not
             effective and that it will certainly  lead to
             behavior problems; sometime problems so severe
             that people put their dogs down because of those
             problems.

            I believe that it is natural for humans to want to
            control their dog by force. Jerry knows this too.
            We have all been at our wits' end, haven't we?

            Dogs have a natural tendency to mimic. In
            scientific literature it is referred to
            allelomimetic behavior. Dogs respond in like kind
            to force; they respond in like kind to praise.
           Don't bribe your dog with treats; give him what he
           wants most-your kind attention. Give him your
           praise. You will be astonished at how your dog 's
           anxiety will dissipate and how their behavior
           problems will dissipate along with their anxiety.

           Treat Jerry Howe's (The Puppy Wizard) Wits' End
           Training Method as a scientific principle just as
           you would the law of gravity and you will have
           astounding success.

           Dog behavior is just as scientific as is gravity.

           If you follow Jerry's puppy rules you will get a
           sweet little Magwai; if you don't you will surely
           get a little gremlin (anyone see The Gremlins?).
           --Larry

                  ---------------------

From: "GEORGE VONHILSHEINER" <DRV...@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: "Jerry Howe" <theamazingpuppywiz...@mail.com>
Subject: Proposed article for Wikipedia
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006

The Amazing Puppy Wizard is the cognomen of a dog behaviorist,
Jerry Howe, of Orlando, Fl.  Howe's primary teaching is that
dogs deserve unconditional love, respect, and attention and
that by providing these emotional needs dogs will regulate
their own behavior.

Howe is bombastically antagonistic to rewarders, but he is
aggressively hostile to punishers - he refers antagonists
to B.F. Skinner, Mary Cover Jones, and J.B. Watson and
especially to Samuel A. Corson when they mistakenly annunciate
behavioral principles to support their use of punishment.

Punishment always deranges behavior, says Skinner,
Jones, Watson, Corson and Jerry Howe!

Howe developed a sonic device which calms dogs and has
been broadly tested in a wide range of different situations.
The present author is a Who's Who recognized psychologist
 who was asked to evaluate Howe's device by a former student.

Howe provided the author with a device, without
charge, and said device worked as reported.

George von Hilsheimer, Ph.D., F.R.S.H.
drv...@earthlink.net
Then cross reference to Jerry Howe, etc.

                --------------

Jerry, the difficulty with these ignorant dog molesters
is that they cannot read.   Negative reinforcement is no
response by the trainer.

There is positive reinforcement, an action which is followed
by an increase in the targetted behavior (usually called
"reward" which is precisely and technically a misnomer),
negative reinforcement is the absence of any response.

Negative means 'No'.

Skinner's last book, "CUMULATIVE RECORD" reviews this thoroughly.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/nru/nr.html

Negative reinforcement is stopping an aversive reinforcement
according to this author.   Read it, they have a sense of humor!

There are four forms of systematic reinforcement:

do nothing (negative reinforcement)

reward the behavior (positive reinforcement)

punish the behavior (aversive reinforcement) after habituating
the subject to punishment,

stop punishing (relief of aversion, which is negative reinforcement).

Logically, failing to reward after habituating a reward
is also negative reinforcement.  Actually intermittent
rewards work better than consistent, invariable rewards,
so there is actually another two categories.  Invariable
reinforcement and random reinforcement (on varying schedules).

Punishment is AVERSIVE REINFORCEMENT.

Actions which cause the animal being trained to avoid,
avert, cringe away from. Pavlovians always responded
to American psychologist's inability to reproduce Pavlov's
results with dogs with the comment, "American's don't LOVE
their dogs".  If you ever observed a Russian psychologist
working with a dog, you'd instantly see the difference.

American psychologists were wooden, robot-like,
wanted to be "scientific".

This meant to them that they should display no
affection, or any other emotion with the subjects.

HOWEDY GOLLEEE,

On Feb 4, 8:27 am, "GOLL...@gmail.com" <GOLL...@gmail.com> wrote:

                        A DOG Is A DOG;
                      As A KAT Is A KAT;
                    As A BIRDY Is A BIRDY;
                     As A GOAT Is A GOAT;
                   As A FERRET Is A FERRET;
                   As A MONKEY Is A MONKEY:
                    As A HORSE Is A HORSE;
                    As A CHILD IS A CHILD;
               As A SP-HOWES Is a SP-HOWES;
           As A Mass Murderer Is A Mass Murderer.

            ALL TEMPERAMENT And BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS
                                    ARE
                   CAUSED BY MISHANDLING.

         Damn The Descartean War of "Nature Vs Nurture";
             We Teach By HOWER Words And Actions
                 And GET BACK What We TAUGHT.

                You GET The Critter You TRAINED

                     Like a confessor Priest?

           "With him, words play no torturing tricks..., "
                     --John Galsworthy.

            Don't bet your dog won't tell on you...
                      Their behaviors reflect
           HOWER words, actions and training quirks.
           Jerry HOWE, The Puppy Wizard. <{} ; ~  )  >

           The Methods, Principles And Philosophy Of Behavior
                          Never Change,
                   Or They'd Not Be Scientific
                      And Could Not Obtain
          Consistent, Reliable, Fast, Effective, Safe Results
                 For All Handler's And All Critters,
                        And ALL Behaviors
                  In ALL FIELDS And ALL UTILITIES,
                   ALL OVER The Whole Wild World,
                        NEARLY INSTANTLY,
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        If any man knows one, he enjoys the fruit of both.

             The level which is reached by wisdom
                       is attained
                 through right action as well.

      He who perceives that the two are one knows the truth."

      "Even the wise man acts in character with his nature,
      indeed all creatures act according to their natures.

           What is the use of compulsion then?

            The love and hate which are aroused
          by the objects of sense arise from Nature,
                   do not yield to them.
               They only obstruct the path," -
                   - Bhagavad Gita,
            adapted by Krishna with permission
            from His OWN FREE copy of The Simply
            Amazing Puppy Wizard's FREE Wits' End
            Dog Training Method manual <{) ; ~  )   >

  ALL Temperament And Behavior Problems Are CAUSED BY MISHANDLING

         "If you talk with the animals, they will talk with you
                    and you will know each other.
          If you do not talk to them, you will not know them,
                 and what you do not know you will fear.

                    What one fears, one destroys."
                       Chief Dan George

Subject: Re: Discipline
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 02:43:46 -0500
From: Amanda <ama...@dcfwatch.com>
To: "N

  On Wednesday 15 January 2003 01:54, "N wrote:

i responded in katie's mail.. youll get it before this one :)
i'm not the expert.. mr. howe is teaching me..  and im figuring
alot out.. plus its just coming to me.. two months ago i would
cry cuz i was soooo lost... and now i go ahead and live it...
like he gave me just enough for my brain to fill in the rest?

when i would swat in my early parent years.. up until i got
crunchy this last year.. i swore spanking was great.. a lil
bit of fear in yo' momma is what i would say.. and my family
supported me.. you can spank and not be abusive.

  then i felt guilty... not because i knew better, but becuase
  you guys and others did it wihtout spanking.. better than me...
  but i would still say i just have bad kids.. then i started
  feeling guilty..asked for help.. got some advice and it worked
  some.. but not much.. enough to make me think i did it.. then
  it wouldn't help..

then i heard him tell someone on the news group:
"Do you think hitting babies is intelligent" and i was
like whoa.. now i feel like cockaroach and pray every
time i distract them that they can somehow grow up
not to hate me..

and i pray i caught myself in enough time.

           ------------------------

From: "Marisa" <mari...@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002

Subject: one day

I started some of the simple techniques in
Jerrys manual today.

The family pack exercise.... come command.....
that's all so far though.

I did get the proper equipment as well.
20 foot leash, cans with pennies partially
crushed, flat collar, etc.

I have also stopped any negative reinforcment
such as loud "No" and "Bad girl Sonique!"
(Sonique is my Jack russell) and holding her
back, which I normally MUST do or she'll jump
and nip sometimes, but always jumping and barking.

Already tonight some has started working.
When someone came to the door, Sonique
went nuts as usual.

I said "Thank you Sonique!"
"It's o.k. girl, thank you!"

And we got a total of about 6 barks and then
no jumping on guests, no biting, growling
or the worst, the continued barking she
normally does.

She accepted my praise, and trooted around,
still excited over guests, but she was WAY
more under control.

Even my roomates noticed this.

She repeated this same thing
without all her normal fuss later
when another two friends came over.

So I do need more time, going to keep with it
another day, another month whatever until I
know I am getting results, although I must say,
so far I am impressed with my dog.

She really responds to praise better than
she ever has responded to treats as distraction
from the guests and doorbell, or me yelling
"bad girl! go away now! shoosh up!" all the time.

I am also verbally praising her everytime
she makes eye contact with me. so hopefully
things will continue going well!-

- Marisa

From: "0513chgo" <0513c...@nixspam.net>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002
Subject: Re: Jerry Howe

 > Marisa you have much hard reading
 > ahead of you because Jerry's manual
 > is verbose and spends about as many
 > lines condeming other approaches as
 > describing what to do.

Please leave Marisa be and let her be happy
with training her dog the way she wants to!

From: "Jerry Howe" <jho...@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: Jerry Howe

He CAN'T.

He's fighting for his career and reputation...he's F'd.

Jerry.

              --------------------

From: Marshall Dermer (der...@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu)
Subject: Re: Jerry's Dog Training Manual
Date: 2001-07-12 06:49:13 PST

     And how do we know this aspect of his
     advice is right?

     Jerry is not God and his manual is not the Bible.
     His advice could be subject to an empirical analysis.

     (Also, it is best to killfile posts from the
     few regulars here who are either ill-tempered,
     ill-mannered, or just plain ill),