Media
There are not many magazines and newspapers in South Africa that have not either quoted Pam Whyte, written about her work, or published articles written by her. She has also had many magazine columns and radio and TV chat shows.
Among the media who have reported on her ground breaking work are: Reader's Digest, Mail and Guardian, Femina, Living and Loving, Your Baby, You, Huisgenoot, Australian Country Living, Huisgenoot, London Times, Rapport, Die Burger, You, Your Family, Men's Health, Argus, Cape Times, Sunday Times, Community papers in South Africa, Europe and London, Star, Tribune, Australian Country Living, Renaisance, South African Country Living, (and yes - Scope and Personality!) Pam has also appeared on many radio shows, TV Magazine and Breakfast shows both locally and overseas, including Carte Blanche and 50/50, alongside the horse whisperer.
In order to protect her privacy and that of her family, although still in great demand, Pam now seldom consents to media interviews.
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Pam will show you what to do when your dog bites and shows aggression toward other dogs
The Instruction Manual that Never Came with Your Four-legged Child.
PamPam Whyte will show you what to do when your dog bites and shows aggression toward other dogs.
Yorkshire Terriers are not small dogs. They are big dogs with short legs. They have big hearts, big egos, big opinions, big attitude - and their teeth are not so small either!
They are dogs, like any other dog – but just midget dogs. A person that is a midget can function just as well as any other person – and so can a Yorkie! They can have children, rear children, hold down a job and command respect. They are not babies because they are short! When they are over 6 months old, they are adults. That is the way Yorkies would like to be regarded. Not as helpless because their legs are short!
So, if your Yorkie is to be beautifully behaved – you need to treat him like a child – not like dog! I bet you have never heard that one before! But then, I bet you have never heard any dog handling technique that works as well as Nature’s Formula for Obedience! It works so well that you never even have to reprimand, or command or dominate or punish, or bribe, or click, or threaten or squirt, or point a finger, or be firm… which you will “have to do” (and it won’t work anyway) if you treat your dog like a dog. The human perception of what a dog, that is!
Dogs were designed to live in a family (not into a circus, an army or a laboratory) and in a social system In order to protect her privacy and that of her family, although still in great demand, Pam Whyte now seldom consents to media interviews. where there are parents, cousins, baby sitters, affection, mutual respect and cooperation with the parents, love and devotion for the “children”, (provided there is enough food to go around, that is), as well as ground rules, a conscience and a moral code. Doesn’t that sound like a sensible arrangement? Enough to make you want to go back and live in caves and in the jungle! Pam Whyte will show you what to do when your dog bites and shows aggression toward other dogs
These natural principles produce peace and harmony, where the leader and his pack are a team – not opponents. We are taught by the human system that the leader dominates. No, the sergeant major dominates! And a pack of dogs has nothing whatever to do with the army! As we know, a sergeant major is hostile toward his troops – he is not a leader (a leader is trusted and loved) - he is a dictator! Sure, in the wild there are dog fights – but why copy dysfunctional packs where dogs are fighting as a result of food shortages and destabilization through human interference, when we can apply the natural principles that govern harmonious existence?
So, in a functional pack of dogs, where there is more than enough food to go around, and where there is no rivalry over leadership, and the presence of humans has not caused anxiety and suspicion in the pack, a pack of dogs is a very close-knit and loyal social system, that nurtures, loves, cares for and protects one another and their young.
When a puppy is 8 weeks old, he is already one quarter of the way to puberty. That makes him at about the level of development of a 4 year old child! Makes you think… and if we fed a 4 year old by hand, never gave them a chance to walk, allowed them to dominate the scene… I think we would end up with a dog not unlike a movie star! Diva dogs do not like sharing the lime light any more than human celebrities do! So what is the solution? Don’t treat your Yorkie like a baby… treat him like a child! They were their mothers’ babies, and she weaned them both physically and emotionally before they moved into our homes. And then we go and undo all their Mom’s good work by treating them like our babies, and making them emotionally dependent, egotistical, and insecure!
How do I know? Because I have been teaching families to follow Nature’s Formula for harmonious coexistence for several decades, and the results they report are very exciting. Does it sound new to you? It is as old as history. And as up to date as tomorrow. Nature’s Formula for Obedience never dates.Pam Whyte will show you what to do when your dog bites and shows aggression toward other dogs. Pam Will show you what to do when your dog bites and shows aggression toward other dogs
And how do you treat your dog like a child? You don’t measure a child’s food; you don’t force them to eat revolting food, you don’t keep a child hungry; you don’t feed a child only processed (fast) food (we know how that is linked to both bad health as well as to abherent behaviour; you don’t eat before your child while they are hungry; you don’t lock a child outside, or command a child (I hope), or order them to go outside; you don’t leave a child without company all day; or tell them to sit and jump through a hoop, put steroids in their food, keep them constipated, (give them food that “gives them small stools”), force them to build up their muscles; deny your child fresh vegetables or gravy on their food, neglect their mental health… but people are taught to do all these things to their dogs, causing the dog owner-cum-consumer market to “need” gimmicks to try and cure the stress- and confusion- related behaviour problems that result from these fast-escalating, unnatural practices - which wouldn’t have presented themselves in the first place… if the dog was just treated like a child!
Also, parents automatically attend to their children’s mental health by encouraging them to observe and process what they see. But we are never taught to allow, and indeed, to encourage our dogs to stare, and to process their environment by observing, listening and sniffing what they see and smell, both at home, and on their outings, when visitors come, and at what is going on outside their front gate. Imagine not allowing a child to stare at a helicopter, or tractor, or horse, or other children, forcing them to run past them, and ignore them instead, and not allowing them to read or watch – they would grow up neurotic and completely mentally unstable. Like over 90% of our domestic dogs because we actually encourage them to grow up with very narrow horizons, where they are never given the opportunity to develop a frame of reference for what is happening around them. They have not been around on this planet as long as we have, so they simply do not know what we know, and are not given the opportunity to learn through observing, thinking, processing what they are seeing and hearing, and coming to correct conclusions uninterrupted. Which is another reason why The Dogs Must be Crazy!
So – if you treat your Yorkie like a child – the way a sensible parent does – this little four legged child will grow up stable, knowing his parameters, not throwing wobblies when he doesn’t get his own way, not demanding to be the centre of attention all the time, coping when the family go out, not being insecure or neurotic – because that is how adaptable, well adjusted children that are not confused, are.
We also need to realise that when we own such a small dog, we need to be tactful, and not to overwhelm them with loud voices and sharp and sudden movements close to them, and directed at them. They are not really children’s pets. With their long hair, which is easily pulled, and small size, which often makes them feel intimidated and threatened by footsteps running past them – especially in a confined space – and with their sharp teeth that they frequently use in self defense, living with children can cause them misery, and children to get bitten. Small children with grabbing hands that think the cute dog is a live stuffed toy that they just want to hug and play with can be very traumatic for a tiny dog. Even adults can unwittingly overwhelm, threaten and stand on their Yorkie by mistake. And when given to children and teenagers, they frequently bring more unhappiness than happiness because they are highly complex and highly intelligent animals, and therefore have complex animals needs, which when not understood and met, cause “behaviour problems”, which in turn bring guilt and anxiety to the child.
And because of their plucky temperament, children from 3 to 90 frequently think it is funny to provoke them to be aggressive by teasing them. This destroys their temperament, and the dog then becomes bad tempered through no fault of his own. People who get their kicks out of doing provoking angry reactions out of an animal (especially one that is so much smaller than themselves) have low self esteem.
And, not only were Yorkshire terriers were not designed to be children’s toys or adults’ surrogate babies -In order to protect her privacy and that of her family, although still in great demand, Pam Whyte now seldom consents to media interviews. they were designed to kill! Big difference… Yorkshire Terriers were designed and developed for the “sport” of killing rats, where their owners in Yorkshire used to (and still do) lay bets on how many rats a Yorkie can kill within a set time. (Not very civilized, but that is what they do.)
And how does this affect your Yorkie? It affects a lot of our Yorkshire Terrier pets very tragically, because the dog only has the urge to kill rats when he is pumped with steroids. So when a Yorkshire Terrier is intoxicated with steroids, such as adrenalin, which the body produces under certain circumstances, he “has rats on the brain”. And when he is in this state, he does not look around and think to himself: “Well, I see that I am not in a rat pit, so therefore, even though I really feel like killing a rat or two or twenty, I can’t, because I don’t see any.” No – when he “has rats on the brain”, anything will do. A Pit Bull, a Rottweiller (size makes no difference), a visitor, a horse (as I said, size makes no difference – he is a very big dog with very short legs). And his fellow Yorkshire Terrier will also do…
Yorkies so often get killed during a “bar brawl” when their steroids levels are so high that they completely lose their grip on reality and take on large, vicious dogs, and also often unwittingly kill their beloved companions when in this intoxicated, disconnected state.
Nature’s Formula for Obedience teaches Yorkie owners how to keep their pets free of steroids, and therefore clear headed, so that they do not make these misperceptions, and these tragedies do not happen.
Also, being big dogs with short legs, they often run in one direction when out of their front gate, and have no intention of turning around and coming home of their own free will. They also have a tendency to jump out of upstairs windows and off balconies. Many a Yorkie owner will testify to their Brave Heart being too brave! Natural Dog Training teaches Yorkies not to want to run out of open gates, and to come right back when they are called if they do, and keeps them rational so that they do not put bungee jumping onto their list of “things to do this week-end”. Pam will show you what to do when your dog bites and shows aggression toward other dogs.
And it has the added bonus of saving dog owners from getting trapped on the marketing treadmill.
Have you ever felt “My Yorkie does not show me the same affection that he shows my visitors! And he is my dog!” This is a mind game these little Diva Dogs actually enjoy playing when they get too big for their boots! Why? Because they can! And why can they? Because we underestimate them! The problem with Yorkies is that they are so flipping cute, so very smart, and so extremely good looking. (No, I don’t sell them – I have just rescued so many of their owners from them, so I know only too well.) Now add charm and charisma to this very impressive Curricula Vitae – and we stand no chance. Emotions inevitably cloud judgment. In fact, when a pup walks in the front door, common sense flies out the back door, as we get swept off our feet by their enchanting and manipulative little ways, finding that in no time, they have us tucked in their back pocket. And this is no exaggeration. It is actually quite sad, because this tendency to overachieve, without having appropriate parameters in place, actually detracts from the quality of their lives, and from the enhancement of their families’ lives.
Nature’s Formula for Obedience puts everything into a correct perspective, bringing harmony between dogs and their owners in a very simple and gentle way. Naturally! It shows you how to bring up your Yorkie to be confident without being (too) vain; to be obedient out of choice; to be emotionally stable, so that he does not get jealous, and/or bark to get attention whenever visitors come, when you are on the phone, and whenever he is not getting his own way; that does not make “mistakes” indoors, or suffer separation anxiety when Mom and Dad go out. In fact it shows him how to fit in, and to be good - because he wants to be! And still be a Brave heart that protectshis family with his life.
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The above citation proves that there is no co-operation between the veterinary and the human medical professions. It is shown above how certain feeding programmes in dogs are causing aggression, yet this information is being completely ignored by the veterinary, and the behaviour professions. They continue to feed dogs diets that cause aggression and the medical profession continues to publish this information which the vets still continue to ignore - while children are being killed by these “souped-up” dogs - and the dogs continue to be euthanased.
One of the reasons, therefore, why the dog aggression problem continues to escalate unabated is the lack of co-operation between the vets and the medical profession, as well as the lack of cooperation between the vets and the African Wild Life Foundation, who study predation in wolves and wild dogs, and are published in the National Geographic showing a picture of dogs after a hunt “bursting at the seams” with satiation, and the vets who state that famine conditions where ribs show on emaciated dogs is normal.
The Veterinary University academics are blocking all research that is being done in this area, simply because it does not come from their laboratories, but from real life. They therefore call it “unscientific”. (Their definition of scientific not being that it is tried, tested, proven and empirical – but that they said it.)
Just because one has not personally experienced something it does not mean that it does not exist. We are talking here about far more than someone who does not have qualifications in dog behaviour. We are talking about giving the dog owners the knowldege they need and are turning to our head ethologist, Pam Whyte in order to understand their dogs and enjoy them, as well as keep their children safe from dog attack. The issue of understanding dogs and learning how to co-exist peacefully with them is not about “where the knowledge was gained” – but whether their kids are safe and their dog is a pleasure to them. (And vice versa.)
It takes more than an “interest” in dog behaviour to reduce the shocking euthanasia rate in domestic pets (euthanasia as a result of behaviour problems is the biggest killer of the domestic dog), and to reverse the spiralling incidence of dog attacks on innocent people (2,000 people a day are attacked by dogs in South Africa alone.) It takes an intimate knowledge on how the domestic dog carries out his hunting functions in our society – which behaviour therapists openly admit to not having.
When Ondersteport University Library received Pam Whyte’s first book ‘n Hond vir die Huis and a copy of my video that was shown at the 6th International Conference on Human-Animal Interactions in Monacco, they made her an honarary member. This has enabled Pam Whyte to study this subject in depth. Professor Haupt says in Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists , Dr. Marder, Seminars in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (Small Animal), and Dr. Beck: the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association all admit to not being able to cure dog aggression. Dr. O’Farrel from the U.K. also says: “Aggression is like Diabetes, incurable.”
Just because they cannot find the solution to the dog aggression problem by studying rats in laboratories, it does not mean the solution cannot be found by studying wild dogs in East Africa and domestic dogs within their own home. Which is what Pam Whyte has been doing over the past 40 years.
In 1967 she opened her consultancy in Johannesburg. She published her first book on dog behaviour in 1975. In 1978 it was published in London and the London Times stated: “This book makes a much needed new approach to dog owning. The book is now in Japanese and in Braille. She has also been invited to write papers on dog psychology by universities in France, the Guide Dogs in France use the video that Pam Whyte made, Understand and Correct Your Dog’s Behaviour. Finding that the positive and negative reinforment techniques that the university teaches on dog behaviour was not giving them a high enough success rate in their sniffer dogs, Denel asked her to teach their dog unit her natural techniques.This is what you do when your dog bites and shows aggression toward other dogs.
Meanwhile, she studied the hunting behaviour of the wild dog with the assistance of Anglia Survival from BBC TV and discovered how to reverse predation. With this knowledge she has cured many vicious dogs of aggression, including 4 killer Pitt Bulls in Namibia.
In 1985 she noticed that dog aggression started increasing, and approached the SABC to assist her to identify this problem and offer a solution. A.D. Viljoen (who ran Network at the time) told her: “Let’s wait until it happens.”
It happened. So in the mid 1990’s, she approached Freek Robinson to ask him please to let her reach parents and dog owners through his programme in order to teach them how to keep their children safe from dog attack. He said: “Let’s wait for another child to be killed, then we can do the programme.” He didn’t. The mainstream academic dog system continue to pretend they did not know what was causing the dog attacks.
Whyte then approached Professor Odendaal who was head of the newly opened department of behaviour therapy to ask him to assist her with reaching families with this proven, scientific knowledge on how the domestic dog is carrying out his hunting strategies in our homes and in society, and how to both prevent and reverse it. He told her: “I do not see it as my job to save children from dog attack.” (Verbatim quote. This was while he was planning to run his seminars on “how to prevent dog attacks”.)
She then approached the head of the Onderstepoort University’s public relations department with statistics from Medical Journals which proved that the new feeding programmes were activating the domestic dog’s predatory instincts and he told her that “The Medical Journals are talking hogwash”. (Again, verbatim.)
Meanwhile, she gave talks at hospitals, schools and libraries, SPCA’S, dog training schools and has written articles widely in magazines on this subject. Only to be met with threats from the Veterinary profession in South Africa who openly claim that they cannot cure dog aggression. Where a woman in Durban was eaten alive by family pets, she was interviewed by the newspaper and when they printed the real reason for the attack (predation), their was a huge outcry by the conventional dog system demanding that the article be retracted and that in future, she be gagged by the press.
Meanwhile, overseas, Pam Whyte’s essential, life-saving work is being recognised. The Child Accident Prevention Trust in the U.K. approached her to write an article in their magazine on how to own a child/friendly dog, Animal Protection Institute in America asked her to write an article for the holistic vets in America on providing a non-surgical, nonpharmaceutical alternative to preventing excessive barking in the domestic dog. (Excessive barking is frequently a sign that a dog’s hunting instincts have been roused.) They published my paper on how to shut down the hunt and therefore remove the dog’s urge to call other dogs in the neighbourhood to his “hunt”.
Pam Whyte’s latest book Living with an Alien (which although it received rave reviews both in South Africa and Australia, was called “despicable” by local behaviour therapists. It has saved many dogs from being euthenased and many children from dog attacks and is now being published in both America and the UK. Pam Whyte continually receive letters from grateful parents and dog owners telling her what a change this insight into how the dog’s mind and instincts function has brought into their lives.
After the book came out, (Melvyn who was then the PRO for the South African Veterinary Association) then asked her to hold a clinic at a dog school in Johannesburg where they could not cure dogs of aggression with their conventional dog training methods. On arrival, there were dozens of video cameras, and she was handed a Pitt Bull that wanted to kill every dog in sight. In less than an hour, the dog was friendly with all dogs. Pam Whyte was not paid. Melvyn went on air two days later and told listeners that “if anyone tells you they can cure a Pitt Bull of aggression toward other dogs they are lying.” (He had obviously not caught her drift, so to speak – Pam is not there to boast – she is here to keep children safe, improve the quality of the dog’s and the owners’ lives and reduce the euthanasia rate.”)
Sometime later she was the object of a smear campaign that was instigated by her jealous “opposition”. On air she was “radio ambushed” and Melvyn tried to catch her out once again. Which he cannot do because her work stands up to all tests, and therefore is empirical and proven. On this programme, he stated that she “did not approve of dog training”. She pointed out that he could see for himself how dog training did not work on the video’s he took at the clinic where she cured the aggressive Pitt Bull.
He then said: “We do not have a video of you curing a Pitt Bull of aggression. We have a video of you confusing a Pitt Bull.” Pam Whyte challenged him to a public viewing of this video, but he said it is “lodged with his lawyers”. If this video did prove Pam to be a fake, why lock it away? Her own demo video’s where you see two dogs trying to kill a child, then totally trustworthy with her two weeks later can also be shown because the time has now come for the other side (her’s) to be heard. No commands or discipline were used to cure these killer dogs - only scientific Wolfpack Blueprint – Dog Language - for hunting and communicating. And on this same video is a wolf trying to hunt a child, then choosing not to, as Pam Whyte “told” the wolf (the same way as she “told the Pitt Bull” at the clinic) that the child was not prey. This was done by using pack signals to cancel the hunt through applying the Wolfpack Blueprint for hunting and communicating. It caused the wolf’s perception of the child to alter from that of a prey to that of a puppy – making him permanently trustworthy with children. (Provided his fight or flee nervous system was not activated again.)
The Wolfpack Blueprint is very user/friendly, requires the use of no force or gimmicks and the dog understands it instantly. As can be seen on my videos or at my clinics and workshops. The dog does not have to learn anything - he is not taught not to kill or bite children. His desire to harm them is removed.***
This knowledge can never be acquired in a laboratory and that is what Dr. Luus, Dr. Greenburg and the conventional dog system in South Africa who study rats in order to understand dogs have against Pam. She did not learn how to cure aggression and keep children safe by conducting her research in man’s laboratory – she learnt it in Nature’s laboratory. Rats don’t chase squirrels up trees.
Pam Whyte now publicly ask the veterinary profession to support her in this vital work of reducing the incidence of dog attacks on children by allowing her to reach parents and dog owners with this essential, proven and scientific information and to cease resisting and threatening her in her efforts to keep children safe. In spite of their smear and blocking campaigns, Pam is still willing to share the results of her independent research with all vets and behaviour therapists in South Africa on how not to arouse the predatory instincts of the domestic dog, and how to diffuse them once they have been unwittingly roused by families who do not have access to information on how their dog’s hunting instincts work.
Because the subject Pam is discussing is so controversial, and contains life-saving information, she supports all of the above with verifiable documentation. This is what you do when your dog bites and shows aggression toward other dogs.
