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LEAVE IT - super important skill for your dog to learn for safety purposes in particularly . When teaching the skillets it’s important to teach the action before you name it later. ✅

SPEAK - today six month old puppy Ned learnt how to speak on command. To do this we use the capturing technique. It’s really important that when you’re teaching this you’re not pairing the visual and the verbal signal together at the same time . Once the Dog understands the skill and you add the verbal cue in it needs to be one after the other. 💕😍

Jumping 👎 this is up there in the top three common owner frustrations that deal with frequently. Jumping is a product of unintentional positive reinforcement. Once a dog is big enough to unintentionally hurt people is when it becomes a real problem today I met Bane. He’s not aggressive by any means he’s a happy but sharp Nails and a powerful jump. You could see how this could’ve ended badly if I was a small child, I’ll post his results later but just highlight the importance of a puppy making sure you don’t reward your dog for jumping up.

Sometimes it’s not your dogs fault….. our expectations are too high. Skills are not simply my Dog can do it in one location. They can do it everywhere. This takes hundreds if not thousands of reps to proof and cutting corners and assuming your dog can do it everywhere cannot only damage your relationship but it can impact your dogs confidence…. 💕

Are you talking too much when you’re training your dog??? Are you possibly changing the words you’re using and not being consistent? This could be a reason why the dog is not progressing in a scale that you feel like you’ve been teaching them forever 😊

Loose leash walking doesn’t mean the dog has to forever be by your side but it’s a great way to build solid foundations, inparticularly for dogs that struggle with reactivity or insecurity. It’s a great way to give them a job to follow and move them into pack drive. If you have a confident dog that has no reactivity issues for example it’s completely okay for a dog to be walking in front of you as long as they’re not hitting the end of the leash and applying consistent pressure 🤗

RALPHIE 💙 9 mth old Cavoodle. He is an absolute little gem of a dog. Today we got working on his leash skills as he started to develop a habit of pulling forward and putting unnecessary pressure on his little neck. He’s such a smarty-pants. He picked it up really quickly and now we just practice….practice and practice under some low distraction environments for a while…. Until making it slightly harder once he’s able to go further distances 😙

Stop bribing your dog 🙃 there’s a difference between rewarding a dog and using Dog as part of an initial training versus forever presenting and bribing a dog to do a command when asked? Do you know the difference? Happy Training

Jumping can be a frustrating habit to break but let’s step back and talk about why your dog jumps to begin with…. It’s likely you taught them to do it !

If you’re having issues teaching a reliable STAY or RECALL then you might find this handy 🙂 ✌️

Giving your dog a job that’s very similar to genetically what they were bred to do is extremely fulfilling… doesn’t have to be formal training just simple things like hunting digging foraging… using their nose can do a lot more for their brain than what you realise

Do you find sometimes when you’re trying to teach a new command to your dog that you can practice it over and over and over again but it’s like it’s falling on deaf ears because all the Dog wants is the reward???

Do you find sometimes when you’re trying to teach a new command to your dog that you can practice it over and over and over again but it’s like it’s falling on deaf ears because all the Dog wants is the reward??? Well there’s a good chance the reward that you’ve chosen to use as a reinforcer is not the right reward for the job. In this video I demonstrate how Duke has exceptionally high drive for the ball but the ball is not something that I would use as a reinforcer during a new training session but perhaps I might use it to finish a training session when we go into free or break 🙂 I hope this helps and happy training

Dogs pulling on the leash is one of the top dog owner problems, why they pull on the leashes often a product of our own reinforcement. ( yes we unintentionally created the monster that were now trying to fix ) Taking the time to learn how your Dog thinks and how to correctly communicate to undo the pulling and create behaviours is key… no magic tool will just stop the pulling. You need to use a combination of the right tools with the right timing, correct reinforcement, the right type of training and most importantly you need the dog in the right frame of mind to learn. 💕💕

Some people may not agree with me on this one but let’s agree to disagree. The amount of clients I see on a regular basis that I’ve tried tools such as NO PULL HARNESSES and had zero improvement astounds me that these can still be marketed to do such a thing which is misleading….. there is no magic tool prevent leash pulling? Slip leashes, check chains, head haltis etc all need to be put through a process to teach the Dog how to yield and follow pressure. You don’t just put them on and the magic happens. So before you waste your money on something that is likely to not give you the results take the time to educate yourself and understand why the leash pulling begins in the first place, then you’ll be one step closer to being able to undo it. :) happy training ✌️

Common questions I get as a pet dog trainer “Help I’m trying to teach my dog a new command but he’ll only do it if I have treats in my hand he doesn’t understand the word. Why is this happening?”

Are you struggling to develop your dogs recall? There might be one or two simple things you can tweak to improve the skill . Here is a few examples of some common mistakes I see on a weekly basis

The way you hold a leash matters ‼️ I had a client reach out to me last week. He had broken two fingers and dislocated one because he had wrapped the lead around his wrist and his fingers when the dog took off after a cat in the yard of our neighbours house. Keep yourself safe and learn the correct ways to securely hold a leash.

Loose Leash Walking. This is one of the number one foundations that every dog should know how to do reliably. One mistake is that people think it’s a perfect heel on the left-hand side. So they practice practice practice and get frustrated when they’re not able to achieve this for long periods went out walking . A competition or focused heel is trained “slightly”differently and only meant to be used in short bursts . We loose leash walking If you picture a bubble off your left hip the Dog should be able to walk anywhere in that bubble. It doesn’t matter as long as there is a J in the leash and zero tension. Personally I enjoy structured walks where there are several stop breaks, where I will allow the dog to enjoy the world and sniff and pee, but when I tell him “let’s go” we are back inti loose leash walking, which means we are moving again and be by my side . These are different to a decompression walk where I would use a long line and I would not expect my dog to be at my side at any stage, unless they chose to be themselves.

Gooooooo Ned 💕🥰