Ray Coppinger is coming to Ireland!

DBB

Hi all,
I just wanted to put this here to make people aware that the great Ray Coppinger is coming to Ireland in June (Sunday 28th, to be precise!)
I know there are a good few people here who love their doggy events, and who love Ray's work, so I thought I'd let ye know in case you miss it!



Ray is the man who, along with his wife Lorna, completely revolutionised our understanding of how dogs came to be domesticated many thousands of years ago. Their research also provided valuable insight into how puppies’ future behaviour is fundamentally influenced by their early-life experiences. Their ground-breaking research has strongly influenced the field of behavioural science over the past decade, and has brought about fundamental changes in how we dog owners go about raising our pups and young adult dogs.
Ray is also a keen musher, and has written extensively about what makes an ideal sled-dog. Development of herd-guarding breeds are also a speciality, and his more recent research has investigated what makes a good therapy dog.
Of all the well-known doggy authors and experts in the world, Ray is at the top of the list of must-see speakers, such is the influence their vital research has had.

It's a full-day seminar, he's speaking at the Maldron Airport Hotel in Dublin on Sunday 28th June, starting at 10am, tickets for the event are €95 (early bird available til March 31st) including a hot lunch and refreshments, there'll be some cool trade stands there, and goodie bags! Gotta have goodie bags! For vets and vet nurses, there are 6 CVE points up for grabs for attending.
Tickets available from here: http://apdt.ie/index.php/apdt-news-and-events/

Thanks!

frenchmartini

Sounds like a great day out and I love the whole area of doggie psychology but sadly I don't have the cash to spare.
If you go, let us know what it was like.

Will definitely check this out.

witnessmenow

So what did people make of it?

I thought some things were really interesting, but some of it was pretty boring to me (over my head maybe?). I think over all I enjoyed the morning more than after lunch. Really didn't enjoy the skull size comparison, kind of didnt see where he was going with it.

I'm not involved in the industry at all, just a dog owner (and a software engineer, but not that one! - side note i thought he got a very rough time, especially when everyone started laughing at him..) so I guess I wasn't really the target audience.

Off topic but just curious, was the gender ratio that was there be typical for these kind of events or the industry? There couldn't have been more than 10-15% fellas there, which I wasn't expecting at all. (not that it matters )

VonVix

witnessmenow wrote: »

...and a software engineer, but not that one!...

:P:D


Really enjoyed it, some parts I felt my brain switch off a bit, but the 3rd part (I think) really intrigued me, as it went on it got more and more interesting I think, but I also got more and more brain tired! Didn't help when the air conditioner came on, made me freezing and sleepy lol!

And yeah, comparing the gender ratio for this seminar to my work environment and those around, totally normal. Very hard to find many men having much interest at all.

muddypaws

witnessmenow wrote: »

So what did people make of it?

I thought some things were really interesting, but some of it was pretty boring to me (over my head maybe?). I think over all I enjoyed the morning more than after lunch. Really didn't enjoy the skull size comparison, kind of didnt see where he was going with it.

I'm not involved in the industry at all, just a dog owner (and a software engineer, but not that one! - side note i thought he got a very rough time, especially when everyone started laughing at him..) so I guess I wasn't really the target audience.

Off topic but just curious, was the gender ratio that was there be typical for these kind of events or the industry? There couldn't have been more than 10-15% fellas there, which I wasn't expecting at all. (not that it matters )

Yeah, gender ratio is about usual, a lot more women involved in dog training/behaviour etc than men.

I think most people listened to the software engineer's question, but when he kept repeating the same thing, it was quite frustrating. I don't know if you heard it, but people weren't laughing at him, someone else was on the phone, or doing something with their phone, and a message could clearly be heard by those in the vicinity along the lines of 'I do not understand what you are saying'. That is what the laughter was about, it was just perfect timing, whether it deliberate or accidental, I don't know, would like to think it was accidental

VonVix wrote: »

:P:D


Really enjoyed it, some parts I felt my brain switch off a bit, but the 3rd part (I think) really intrigued me, as it went on it got more and more interesting I think, but I also got more and more brain tired! Didn't help when the air conditioner came on, made me freezing and sleepy lol!

And yeah, comparing the gender ratio for this seminar to my work environment and those around, totally normal. Very hard to find many men having much interest at all.

I only had an hour or two's sleep on Saturday night, so struggled a bit with the more scientific stuff, and I found the opposite, wished the air con had been on more, as it was quite hot and stuffy, and I felt my eyelids drooping.

I had the privilege of speaking with Ray on the Saturday night about sled dogs, which was absolutely amazing, his knowledge and history with the dogs is humbling.

VonVix

muddypaws wrote: »

I only had an hour or two's sleep on Saturday night, so struggled a bit with the more scientific stuff, and I found the opposite, wished the air con had been on more, as it was quite hot and stuffy, and I felt my eyelids drooping.

I had the privilege of speaking with Ray on the Saturday night about sled dogs, which was absolutely amazing, his knowledge and history with the dogs is humbling.

I must have been right under where it was, because it was quite a cold draft for us up at the front, which made me feel the need to snuggle into my cardigan which in turn made me drowsy!

witnessmenow

VonVix wrote: »

:P:D


Really enjoyed it, some parts I felt my brain switch off a bit, but the 3rd part (I think) really intrigued me, as it went on it got more and more interesting I think, but I also got more and more brain tired! Didn't help when the air conditioner came on, made me freezing and sleepy lol!

And yeah, comparing the gender ratio for this seminar to my work environment and those around, totally normal. Very hard to find many men having much interest at all.

The Stalk > Chase > Bite stuff? I thought that was really interesting too. My dog definitely has the chase, hopefully will never find out if she has the bites!

Me and my GF were discussing if the way our dog plays with toys indicates she has the dissect instinct. She chews at the week point of toys to rip them, I thought this was similar to dissection, GF wasn't so sure.

Also liked the threshold stuff with the BC (I know nothing about sheep dogs so it was all new to me)

I 100% do not have the attention span for a day of this sort of stuff, after around 4:30 or so I was just checked out.

Cheers, as I said was just curious. Must tell my single friends :pac:

EDIT:

Oh yeah totally, people were laughing at the phone (very appropriate timing!).

Us software engineers communication skills always leave a lot to be desired. I guess he completely understood the question he wanted to ask and didn't know a another way of wording it. I think it was to do with Ray using the term the "design" cost of the wolf, but when he was talking through the slide he was clarifying the point by saying "how much it costs to build the wolf", I guess that what the guy was asking about but im not sure.