4D Dog Training - Dee's Diggity Dogs, Ryde, Sydney (2025)

I am a balanced dog trainer specialising in behaviour modification and reactivity, servicing Sydney. Meaning my aim is to work on reestablishing a healthy working relationship between you and your dog first in order to help you tackle your dog's behavioural issues for the best results. Miscommunication is the biggest part of the problem I see between dogs and their owners. I help you find the root

cause of your dog's problems and explain their behaviour and psychology to you before setting you up with the skills, techniques and knowledge you need to resolve and manage their issues going forth. You will always have my ongoing support moving forward, any time you need. If it's a small question, big question, or something as simple as an update on how everything is going! I offer help with:
- Dog Reactivity
- Human Aggression
- Leash Pulling
- Resource Guarding
- Impulse Control
- Recall
- Jumping on guests
- Excessive Barking
- Counter surfing
- And so much more! My mission is to help keep families together through education and compassion. Ultimately the goal is to keep dogs as far away as possible from being abandoned, surrendered or euthanised.

12/02/2024

Unpopular opinion but so true. When training or handling dogs, do you let emotions lead your approach or logic? As humans it’s hard to seperate the 2 as we are emotional creatures. But when it comes at the cost of your dogs well-being, you need to put aside *your* feelings and truly understand your dog’s needs and what’s best for them. Not what you *think* is best because it makes you feel good emotionally. Not everyone will agree with this, and that’s probably because they’re using emotion 🫣

30/01/2024

Training is about strengthening yourself. It’s how to prepare yourself for the ‘big event’. Whether that’s a big game or a big test or a big marathon…

It’s about practising, building endurance and increasing your skill. It requires repetition, consistency and discipline. So when it’s time to face the real deal, you’re ready to ACE it and it’s a total breeze 💪🏼

When we train our dogs, their ‘big event’ is REALITY! We train them to prepare them for the real world, which for a canine is hella confusing with all our complex human rules and social etiquettes and whatnot 😵‍💫

But just like we would start training for a 10k marathon (starting small and building up) we have to remember to have the same approach for our dogs. Don’t expect to start training and reach perfection on the first or second day and get disheartened.

*But more importantly*
🚫 Don’t wait until your dog is off leash at the park or escaped their collar to train recall.
🚫 Don’t wait for someone to unexpectedly ring the bell or for the mailman to show to train your dog not to go barking like crazy.
🚫 Don’t wait for your dog to try and sn**ch up something poisonous or rush onto a busy road before the lights change to train impulse control.

✅ DO set aside the time and plan to create these staged situations and training scenarios to practise so that you and your dog are ready for when it really happens.

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28/01/2024

Before I bring out a real live decoy dog to help my client work on their dog’s reactivity, I like to first bring out my “Buddy”.

If I bring out a real dog too early on it can sometimes have a negative affect on everyone depending on the level of training we are at, so now my helpful Buddy has been helping me take things at the owners’ pace.

This gives my clients a lot more confidence and a bit more of a practise run which in turn helps their dog feel more confident too.

Dogs can pick up on our energy and are very intuitive. If you are anxious, that energy can easily radiate to your dog who needs LESS anxiety from you and MORE confidence.

If they sense we aren’t confident, capable leaders, they’ll find it next to impossible to trust our judgement during high stress situations let alone listen and follow our lead - hence their reactive behaviour.

But I also appreciate how challenging it can be to calm your nerves when you own a reactive dog and are still learning new techniques! It’s like learning how to drive a manual car. Throw in a real dog too soon, it could turn into a 4 car pileup leaving everyone worse off 🫣

You’ll also notice how far Chewy and his owner were in this video. This is because thresholds are so important, in the beginning we always try to expose the stimulus *under* a dog’s threshold before working our way closer to set them up for SUCCESS!

Need help with your reactive dog? Contact us at www.4ddogtraining.com

12/01/2024

Harley is a beautiful Border Collie pup with an amazingly proactive owner! BE LIKE HER!!

She’s been working on so much with Harley and for a first time owner they are both doing an incredible job and are already on their way to having a great family dog but also a solid bond and relationship, which is the most important thing 🙌🏼

We’ve gone over things like
- excessive leash pulling
- jumping on guests
- desensitisation to scary sounds, strange people, birds, dogs, cars and bikes (which she loved to try and chase)
- impulse control
- recall
- listening skills and obedience
- biting
- boundary training and so much more over the last several weeks

Puppies are not easy work and NEED to be shown the rules of our world and how to navigate them. Expecting a different species to just know how to fit into the human world is setting them up to fail.

It can feel almost like a full time job in the beginning. But if you invest in your pup from the start, like Harley’s owner, you will both reap the benefits of a well-adjusted, confident, calm dog and a happy family.

I mean c’mon, look at that face 😃

25/12/2023

Yesterday was Zeus’s birthday 🎉 I am so lucky to have this guy in my life even though I don’t get to see him very often 🥹

We hope everyone had a great Christmas!! 💚❤️🐾

Address

Ryde
Sydney, NSW
2112

Telephone

+61422936933

Website

http://www.4ddogtraining.com/

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Before I bring out a real live decoy dog to help my client work on their dog’s reactivity, I like to first bring out my “Buddy”. If I bring out a real dog too early on it can sometimes have a negative affect on everyone depending on the level of training we are at, so now my helpful Buddy has been helping me take things at the owners’ pace. This gives my clients a lot more confidence and a bit more of a practise run which in turn helps their dog feel more confident too. Dogs can pick up on our energy and are very intuitive. If you are anxious, that energy can easily radiate to your dog who needs LESS anxiety from you and MORE confidence. If they sense we aren’t confident, capable leaders, they’ll find it next to impossible to trust our judgement during high stress situations let alone listen and follow our lead - hence their reactive behaviour. But I also appreciate how challenging it can be to calm your nerves when you own a reactive dog and are still learning new techniques! It’s like learning how to drive a manual car. Throw in a real dog too soon, it could turn into a 4 car pileup leaving everyone worse off 🫣 You’ll also notice how far Chewy and his owner were in this video. This is because thresholds are so important, in the beginning we always try to expose the stimulus *under* a dog’s threshold before working our way closer to set them up for SUCCESS! Need help with your reactive dog? Contact us at www.4ddogtraining.com

4D Dog Training - Dee's Diggity Dogs