I've been inflicted with a flu this week and haven't had the energy to do much with my dogs... but scent work activities certain help to give them some much needed mental stimulation (and in Fizz's case physical as well). Fizz is working on locating a little metal spacer by scent and then offering a down when she finds it, as you can see she enjoys this alot and is quite good at finding it!
We love scent work as an outlet for dogs and especially love it for when the weather isn't great for dog training outdoors or when the human isn't feeling awesome!
#dogtraining #scentwork #bordercollie #caninescentwork
There's nothing like watching 10 dogs casually doing loose lead walking work together. 😍
Can you believe that nearly every one of these dogs originally came to see us with some form of reactivity?
#dogtraining #reactivedogs #groupdogtraining #looseleadwalking #traineddogsaregooddogs
Zip and I are preparing for our first competitions so we've been working on duration in her heeling. This is a recent session and it's starting to look really nice! We also work on turns and positions but in this session we were just looking at doing a longer session of pure heeling.
I'm looking forward to getting this girl in the competition ring!
#dogtraining #dogobedience #bordercollie #heeling
Being calm around activity is a struggle for Vader who has been with us for a few weeks now. We use place alot to help dogs learn to regulate their emotions and focus on staying calm. He's doing really well with his impulse control!
#dogtraining #placetraining #malinois #impulsecontrol
What does a dog trainer do on her day off? 🤔
Just some fancy, schmancy, prancy heel work with my little dog Zip at the farmers markets!
I'm getting ready to compete with her and I'm a big believer in proofing a dog's skills far beyond what they will encounter in the competition ring... the markets are an extreme level of distraction and she handled this brilliantly. I'm very much looking forward to competing next to this young dog!
#dogtraining #bordercollie #heeling #trainingindrive #distractiontraining
This is Rocco. He's a 9 month old GSP mix who started training with us a few months ago to ensure he and his owners got through the puppy phase without any bad habits! He joined group class about 5-6 weeks ago and we just love his bouncy, prancy heel! 😍
When we first met him, dogs were a big deal for Rocco! He would get SOOOO excited that he'd stop listening to his people, pull towards and bark at the other dog - even when it was a long way away!
His owners have been super dedicated to his training and report that now he can walk past other dogs on the footpath calmly and easily just like he's doing here in our Life Skills class!
He's a beautiful example of how you can train a young dog (remember he's only 9 months old!) to be well behaved!
Your puppy's age is no excuse for lack of training or manners!
#puppytraining #germanshorthairedpointer #dogtraining #groupdogtraining #looseleadwalking
Welcome Bear. He's a young German Shepherd with big feelings about strangers. We'll be helping him learn to control those feelings so he can be safe and able to go out into the real world to do fun things like going for a walk!
He's a serious dog and we have a bit of work ahead of us but he showed a lot of potential in his first lesson this week.
Please give his people some encouragement and keep your judgements to yourself! No one sets out to create dogs like this intentionally, it happens accidentally through a mixture of socialisation, exposure, training and genetics.
#dogtraining #germanshepherd #humanaggression #aggressivedog #reactivedog
Group classes are a great way to practice your dog's life skills around other dogs. Our training programs all progress from private sessions to group sessions so your dog can first learn what to do and how to do it and then come practice with more distractions in group training!
Vader our current board and train dog joined in as well!
#dogtraining #groupdogtraining #lifeskillsfordogs #impulsecontrol
We only had a small group on Saturday for our Life Skills class so we were able to fit in our little training space while it rained! The new shed goes up this week and we'll be able to run classes and lessons in all weather!
We challenged our class students with impulse control while another dog played which was hard for all of them but all did so well!
#dogtraining #impulsecontrol #placetraining #playwthyourdog
Here's a typical puppy socialisation session with us. This is not what most people think socialisation looks like and here's why!
Puppy owners often confuse socialisation with play. But they are not the same thing! Play can be part of socialisation but it's not all of it! Socialisation is about teaching your puppy how they should feel, think and act with various things like other dogs, people, cats, cars etc. If you teach your puppy that play is all they should want/think about when they see another dog they will grow up to have trouble being calm around other dogs.
Gracie the Kelpie pup went to puppy school and was a little overwhelmed by other dogs at first (not good) but has still developed a lot of excitement around dogs (also not ideal). Her behaviour will be completely inappropriate when she's older so it's our job to teach her better manners now!
Blink our lovely old girl is amazing at educating puppies... so we put her to work! See how she mostly ignores Gracie but when Gracie gets too intense Blink gives her a quick correction which teaches Gracie where Blink's boundaries are. Blink is teaching Gracie how to do calm "dog" things around other dogs rather than turn every interaction into crazy play and in just a few minutes we watched Gracie calm down and follow Blink's lead!
If you need help with puppy training get in touch!
Arya the German Shepherd struggles when other dogs are running, moving quickly and making noise. While Vader the Malinois on the slatmill struggles with FOMO when I handle or engage with another dog. So this session was super cool to address both of these issues with these dogs!
Sometimes you need to think outside of the box when training dogs!
#dogtraining #malinois #germanshepherd #slatmill
Auri the White Swiss Shepherd showing off some lovely loose lead walking around a totally new dog! Thanks Scout for helping Auri practice his skills!
#dogtraining #looseleadwalking #reactivedogs #bordercollie #whiteswissshepherd
Come teach your dog to be a sniffer dog with us!
We're going to be running another scent work class in June and are taking expressions of interest now! Shoot us a message/email to get the booking link!
It will be a 6 week course starting on Wednesday 5th June at 7pm and running every Wednesday evening for the 6 weeks. All dogs welcome - even reactive dogs! Max of 5 dogs per class. $200 per attendee.
#dogtraining #scentwork #detectiondog #bordercollie
Come teach your dog to be a sniffer dog with us!
We're going to be running another scent work class in June and are taking expressions of interest now! Shoot us a message/email to register your interest and we'll be in touch once we have dates sorted!
It will be a 6 week course on a Wednesday or Thursday evening, all dogs welcome - even reactive dogs! Max of 5 dogs per class.
#dogtraining #scentwork #detectiondog #bordercollie
Come teach your dog to be a sniffer dog with us!
We're going to be running another scent work class in June and are taking expressions of interest now! Shoot us a message/email to register your interest and we'll be in touch once we have dates sorted!
It will be a 6 week course on a Wednesday or Thursday evening, all dogs welcome - even reactive dogs! Max of 5 dogs per class.
#dogtraining #scentwork #detectiondog #bordercollie
One of our Life Skills classes in action.
This might not look like much but at the beginning of this session Noodle the Aussie Shepherd was pulling on the leash and could not control herself around another dog. She is social but so extremely excited that she barks, pulls incessantly and wouldn't listen at all!
We used some corrections to teach her that this behaviour isn't acceptable and look at her now!
She's still a work in progress but this session is so promising and we are looking forward to seeing her again soon!
#dogtraining #looseleadwalking #Aussie #australianshepherd
Some close range place training and recalls away from other dogs during Life Skills this week. We challenged the dogs by keeping one dog on mat each time to test their impulse control.
Would your dog be able to do this?
#dogtraining #groupdogtraining #recalls #placetraining
Testing out the new training space with some heelwork with Zip! We should have a shed up here to use for our training lessons in the next few weeks!
#dogtraining #bordercollie #heelwork
Got a puppy or bored dog? Why not use their food for some entertainment! Here's just one of many ways we mix up meal times with our dogs!
Digger here usually scoffs down a bowl of food in 10 seconds flat. This humble milk bottle lasted him over 30 minutes!
#puppytraining #Labrador #ditchthebowl
