Trainers websites

Websites I like:

http://susangarrettdogagility.com/ - Susan Garrett
http://www.kikopup.com/ - Emily Larlham
http://silvia.trkman.net/ - Sylvia Trkmann

Over arousal

http://abrionline.org/article.php?id=249 - Karen London article

Use a lower value reinforcer
Teach tug - 'off' and 'get it'
Teach 'finish' (interactions) and 'what dog?'

Loose lead walking

http://ahimsadogtraining.com/blog/2008/10/12/silky-leash/

http://ahimsadogtraining.com/blog/leash-walking/

A different method that starts with the dog off lead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DayHrhoSJZc&feature=relmfu 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJXC8Mo_ASQ&feature=relmfu

Puppy development

http://www.thepuppyplan.com/ - New plan developed by KC and Dogs Trust
http://breedingbetterdogs.com/pdfFiles/articles/early_neurological_stimulation_en.pdf - Battaglia on Early Neurological Stimulation
Evidence it works?

http://www.journalvetbehavior.com/article/S1558-7878(09)00155-5/abstract

David Lamb on ethical questions

https://sites.google.com/site/davidcalvados/home - some reports by David Lamb (bioethicist) on Electronic Pulse  Training Aids (shock collars) and rehoming animals.

Statistical Power in behavioural research

Martin Gammell gave a talk on the importance of statistical power at the ASAB conference at ARU in 2011. Some links are given below.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622782/authorinstructions - Animal Behaviour Guide for Authors - includes detail on statistical reporting of results

Animal Behaviour:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347283712820 - Statistical power - Jeremy J. D. Greenwood

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347283712832 - Statistical power and accepting the null hypothesis - Charles E. Thompson and Andrew J. Neill

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347296902328 - The importance of statistical power analysis: an example fromAnimal Behaviour - LEN THOMAS and FRANCIS JUANES

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347210003957 - Power rangers: no improvement in the statistical power of analyses published in Animal Behaviour - Daniel R. Smith, Ian C.W. Hardy and Martin P. Gammell

Behavioural Ecology:

http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/3/438.full - Michael D. Jennions and Anders Pape Møller - A survey of the statistical power of research in behavioral ecology and animal behavior

http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/3/446.full - Nick Colegrave and Graeme D. Ruxton - Confidence intervals are a more useful complement to nonsignificant tests than are power calculations

Biological Reviews:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2007.00027.x/abstract - Shinichi Nakagawa and
Innes C. Cuthill - Effect size, confidence interval and statistical significance: a practical guide for biologists