Perth K9 Coach

08/10/2025

TRAINING - ‘NAUGHTY’ DOGS

If your Dog is being (what we humans refer to as) ‘naughty’ ie
- Jumping up
- Biting
- Pulling on leash
- Chewing
- Not paying attention
- Giving you ‘attitude’
- Not ‘listening’
- Barking at people
- Barking at orhwr Dogs
- Nuisance barking

…the list goes on 🥴

You don’t need a ‘quick fix’ - and a quick fix won’t come close to resolving any behavioural issues and providing long-term solutions…

You need a SYSTEM...

You need to introduce PROTOCOLS that will stand you in good stead, EDUCATING YOU in how to EDUCATE your Dog… incorporating CONSISTENCY and RESPECT…

You need to address the RELATIONSHIP between you and your Dog.

This is ALWAYS the issue…

Teaching your Dog to (sit - for everything) for example, will not resolve issues.

THE ANSWER…

- Will not he found in teaching them ‘tricks’.

- Instead, the answer is found in teaching them how to live with us humans…

The ANSWER is found in establishing a relationship built on RESPECT…

If we don’t teach them, who will?

And if we don’t teach them, how will they know!? 🤔😌

08/10/2025

TRAINING - DOGS THAT ‘BULLY’ OTHER DOGS

This is a common one…

Two Dogs, circumstances vary, but there is often one that needs to be taught some manners… 

08/10/2025

TRAINING…

A simple but very common approach - that will ALWAYS lead to non-compliance and a breakdown in ALL interactions…

07/10/2025

TRAINING CHALLENGE

16 weeks of age…

DROP ON COMMAND - NAILED! 🥳❤️🥰

04/10/2025

WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES

When training our Dogs, we all misstep, make mistakes, miss a moment…

Don’t beat yourself up… move on and learn from the experience 😉

As in life, ‘mistakes’ are part of the journey… it is not about perfection - it’s about progress.

Pssst…. If we never made a mistake we would never progress, never learn and never be better! 😉

No matter how skilled, every Dog handler has taken a wrong turn, however what sets great people apart from others is their ability and willingness to learn from those mistakes, learn, move on and be better 😊

Social media can make it seem like everyone else is achieving flawless outcomes, but what you see online is often just the highlights, a moment in time - not the full story and definitely not all the trials and tribulations that were experienced along the journey.

Don’t let the pressure of achieving perfection keep you from admitting when something didn’t go right.

True growth comes from acknowledging what went wrong, understanding why, and making the necessary adjustments - and vowing to never let THAT happen again 😉😊.

Your Dog cares only for CLARITY, BOUNDARIES, STRUCTURE and CONSISTENCY…

Focus on what truly matters - building a harmonious partnership with your Dog…

- EARN their RESPECT by treating them with Respect

- Help them to be COMFORTABLE in the world

- EDUCATE (teach) them what they role is in this relationship

- SHOW THEM, help them to be SUCCESSFUL, and CELEBRATE their SUCCESSES 🥳

01/10/2025

DOGS and SCENTING

Dogs’ noses are nothing short of astonishing - they detect things we have no idea exist!

They enjoy up to 300mil scent receptors - compared to our mere 5mil!

They will detect smells we are completely oblivious to - so faint we’d never believe they exist.

This gives Dogs a sense of smell that’s (tens of thousands) sharper than ours!

With training, this leads many Dogs to an enjoyable career in scenting - sniffing out drugs, explosives, humans - and even disease signatures like those of certain cancers or changes related to diabetes, where studies have identified that when Dogs were introduced to samples of blood, saliva, sweat or urine, they distinguished between healthy and diseased - with very high accuracy!

It’s not magic, it is GENETICS!

We see this with Dogs that are very environmentally sensitive ie Dog aggression, where they will scent another Dog long before we can see it!

Dogs will pick up a scent off the ground, other items in the environment but also in the air…

We often see a Dog ‘Air Scenting’ - with their head high and their nose going at a 1,000,000 miles an hour!

Every Dog enjoys this ability, irrespective of breed, however breeding practices can have an impact both positive and negative…

In many breeds this superpower has been encouraged ie Hunting Breeds (Bird Dogs) such as Pointers,Setters and Retrievers will use their noses extensively - ask anyone who lives with a Labrador 🤣

It’s GENETICS! 😉

Never under-estimate the power of your Dogs nose!

30/09/2025

DOGS and CHILDREN

There are many similarities when raising Dogs and Children and this is one of them…

Every time you tell your child NO and then change your mind due to begging or temper tantrums, you are teaching them that they are in charge and that your boundaries are negotiable (or non-existent!)…

30/09/2025

THE CHIHUAHUA

For our Chihuahua families …

We all know they have attitude ❤️

27/09/2025

PET FOOD

Another perfectly good reason to only feed natural 💔😢

Following a major outbreak of Salmonella schwarzengrund in the United States, a colossal study was undertaken by Behravesh et al. (2010) who found dry dog and cat food to be the cause of the outbreak. However, it took the two teams 3 years to establish the fact. In that time, 79 people over 21 states were poisoned with Salmonella schwarzengrund – half of them were children under 2 years of age. The issue was traced back to Mars pet food who ended up recalling over 23,000 tonnes.

Two years later, the CDC in the United States reported that 53 people from around the United States and Canada had contracted Salmonella infantis from dry dog food (or their dry-fed dogs) in 2012, 20 of whom were again children under two years of age. One in three of those ended up in hospital

☢️ Guys, we need to do something about this. ☢️

REFS
1. Behravesh, B., Ferraro, A., deasy, M. et al. (2010). Human Salmonella infections linked to contaminated dry dog and cat food, 2006–2008. Pediatrics, 126(3): 477–483

2. US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc, 2012). Multistate outbreak of human Salmonella infantis infections linked to dry dog food (Final Update). Published online, July 18th,

27/09/2025

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