O'Reilly K9 Training

18/06/2024

Lina ❤️

16/05/2024

Harley 😍

08/03/2024

Board and train Ebony 😎

08/03/2024

Board and train Malin 😊

12/12/2023

💥PUPPIES💥
It's awesome when I hear from new puppy owners or even better, people who are expecting a puppy and reach out prior to receiving the pup because it tells me these people are wanting the very best start for their new best friend and are willing to do what it takes to get the best out of their dog in the future. It takes time, effort, commitment and an open mind to learn new things about diet and training but in my opinion putting in the work from the start and reaping the rewards in 12 months sounds much better than living a frustrating relationship with your puppy/dog with conflict and confusion and hoping your dog will "grow out of it" which is highly unlikely. If you've got a puppy and you're after some help getting off on the right foot or you're thinking about getting a puppy, reach out to a professional and do your research about not only training, but diet and breed specific needs and whether that works for your situation.

10/07/2023

Confidence building tip for dogs of all ages but more importantly puppies: get them to stand, walk, jump, do obedience etc on anything and everything. The more things your pup realises it can overcome that were initially scary or challenging, the more it will see as normal and achievable! You’ll need good food drive and engagement and some luring skills. Kobee is a 10 month old Staffy staying for a board and train. At first he refused to hop up on the platform and was hesitant to walk on the unstable bridge but within a minute he was bouncing up onto the platform and running across the bridge. This leads to him trying loads of other things with confidence. Give it a go 😎

16/03/2023

Put in the work people! Hoping your young dog is going to end up perfect because your older dog will “teach it” or hoping it will mature and grow out of bad behaviours eventually is not a very solid plan and the outcomes are generally going to be pretty poor. Whenever you’re out and about and you see a well trained dog, neutral around distractions and or engaging/playing with its owner it’s generally because there has been time and effort put into building that relationship.

I can not stress this enough. Especially high drive/hunting/sporting breeds. People……they aren’t born this way. Temperament is bred, but not handle that is EARNED with these breeds.

…🐾…

14/03/2023

Before and after of a leash reactive German Shepherd in the same session. Super common issue amongst pets. Every reactivity case is different. Some worse than others but the most common baseline reason behind reactive dogs is fear and owners not understanding that their dog is uncomfortable until it’s blatantly obvious because it’s barking and lunging.
Focus on building confidence in as many different environments as possible from a young age and build engagement around distractions and other competing motivators such as dogs and people rather than taking your dog to dog parks, dog beaches, allowing your dog to meet every dog on a walk and having lots of dog “friends” and you’ll likely never have a reactive dog.

08/09/2022

Probably the most common thing is see is people having no control over their dog on leash. The problem with having no control over your dog on leash outdoors/in public is that your dog doesn’t understand what is and what isn’t off limits so when your dog wants to go and do something or gets excited by something in the distance, the dog gets over stimulated and then often frustrated because the leash is now tight and stopping it from getting to where or what it wants. This often leads to reactivity as well. Just adding some rules and boundaries, the right equipment and clear communication can make walking with your dog a much more enjoyable experience.

Send me a message if you’d like to change the way you and your dog walk together 😊

12/06/2022

04/06/2022

Time to end the stigma!
Not all dogs need a prong collar but some certainly do and without one some dogs will remain out of control and owners will never be able to have control. Unfortunately I see many lost, confused, emotional and extremely stressed owners that just put up with their dogs behaviours because they don’t understand what to do, have been misguided by trainers, pet shop workers, friends or the internet/social media or “have tried everything out there”. When used correctly they are an extremely helpful training tool that doesn’t cause harm to the dog. Think about it, is a harness someone from a pet shop recommended really going to help communicate with your dog through the leash effectively when you’re dealing with reactivity, aggression etc?

Also just to clarify, I use all training tools including flat collars and slip leashes, not just prong collars. It’s not supposed to be a quick fix, the correct equipment should be used depending on the dog and it’s behaviour as well it’s level of sensitivity. Many dogs do just fine on a flat collar or slip leash. But remember to be open to all tools that will help benefit you and your dog moving forward and dig a little deeper to find out information regarding training, training tools and your dogs diet etc instead of believing the first thing you read on the internet or your friends friend that spoke to old mate at the pet shop one time 😊

29/05/2022

True

📣 ON LEAD MEET & GREETS ARE NOT A THING

💡 Leash pressure(restraint) is a MAJOR trigger for frustration/aggression and it amplifies fear/anxious responses.

🤷🏻‍♂️ Sure! If you can keep both dogs on a loose leash they MAY be okay (if they are generally sociable with all random dogs they meet).

💡 But what if you can’t?

🤷🏻‍♂️ Meeting an unknown dog whilst restrained is a pressure cooker for so many dogs.

💡Only 1 of the 2 needs to feel that pressure for the situation to blow up.

👋🏻 “Nah mate, I’m good thanks!”

18/05/2022

Using a flat collar or harness is a waste of time with a dog like this. No feedback through the leash resulting in no control. It becomes dangerous for the handler, the dog and other people and dogs when you have no control of your dog and it has the ability to drag you to where it wants to go. First using a slip leash we achieved some loose leash walking and calmness by teaching leash pressure and boundaries then using a prong collar we were able to clearly communicate through the leash with minimal pressure or application. Plenty more work to be done but a good first session 😁

17/05/2022

Before and after.
Pretty common issue! Overstimulated on walks, especially around distractions due to lack of direction/boundaries/rules and dog not understanding what it is you’re actually wanting/asking the dog to do. The right tools and technique does wonders.. oh and the right trainer 😉🤗

09/05/2022

The PDTA strongly OPPOSE the proposed ban on Prong Collars in Queensland.

“Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk made the announcement in a Facebook post on Sunday, saying the animal welfare laws would be debated in parliament this week.

"We're passing legislation to crack down on the inhumane treatment of animals in Queensland," the premier said in her post.”

Cracking down on animal cruelty is a way to emotionally contract people onto your side, but what about facts?

Surely, a collar as cruel as the prong collar would have hundreds if not thousands of cases in which people have been charged with cruelty?

The current welfare laws give power to prosecute anyone treating animals in a cruel manner, with ANY collar.

How many people have been charged? Our estimation is ZERO.

The prong collar can be a breakthrough training tool for those who are working with difficult, aggressive, and overstimulated dogs to get some progress in behaviour modification where other methods have failed.

Without this training tool, many dogs will be banished to their back yard for ever, unable to be walked or remain under their owner’s control.

Many more will be surrendered, put to death simply as other training systems failed them.

What is the hype?

Yes, the prong collars look does not scream pleasant, but what FAKE NEWS are people saying?

FAKE: The prongs are sharp and dog into dogs necks
FACT: The tips of the collars, contrary to popular belief, do not stick into the dogs neck, but rather run along side.

The tips are rounded off, not sharp like those trying to trigger your emotions suggest.

FAKE: The pull into the dog’s throat causing pain
FACT: They REDUCE pressure on dogs necks by applying the pressure from the leash evenly around the neck, unlike other collars.

FAKE: The prong collar can cause injury easy
FACT: We have never seen more than skin irritation from the metal in the collar, which occurs with any collar

From Anastasia’s press release

“RSPCA Australia is opposed to the use of dog pronged collars due to the potential risk of injury, pain and suffering they cause and because other more humane training methods are available," the organisation said on its website.

They prefer more humane training methods, having that said, from this document (https://rspca.org.au/sites/default/files/RSPCA%20Report%20on%20animal%20outcomes%20final%202016-2017.pdf)

You will see this written when the RSPCA are explaining why they put nearly 6000 dogs to death in one year and almost 70% of those dogs were for behavioural reasons.

From the document, the RSPCA state “Of dogs euthanased, the majority of cases are because of severe behavioural issues (68.78%). This includes aggression and severe anxiety that the RSPCA is not able to or has not been able to treat through behavioural modification programs”

I wonder how many could be saved if they stopped limiting themselves to the seemingly more humane methods?

And now they want to limit everybody…

How humane actually is it to kill a dog when it could be saved?

We do not refer to this as Euthanasia because that would ending the animals suffering. Most dogs that are displaying behaviour problems are not suffering, in fact the behaviour problem is often the coping mechanism.

Please do not fall for the attempts to emotionally trigger you to help ban important training aids that helps experienced and specialist dog trainers and behaviourists help dogs and their owners.

31/03/2022

I don’t think Lina is ever going to grow into those ears! She’s a gorgeous girl 🥰

30/03/2022

Send me a message if this is you, before you end up face first in the mud 😂

25/03/2022

Aka keep your dogs hungry and motivated!

25/03/2022

Teaching Kikko how to walk properly instead of all over the place. She’s a bit fearful and lacks confidence so her walks are one of the many things we are making changes to in her routine. Fearful/timid dogs with no control, engagement or rules on walks mixed in with poor environmental exposure and socialisation (or over socialising your dog with other dogs) can quickly lead to leash reactivity which is very common on walks and something I see pretty much everyday.

21/03/2022

Amazing breed and a great pet if you’re willing to put in the effort to provide structure, boundaries, good consistent training and play. Any working dog for that matter has a need for some kind of outlet genetically so if you own one of these dogs it’s your responsibility to provide that for your dog.

P.s - This doesn’t mean just because you don’t have a working dog that this excludes you or you can just do the opposite and be lazy. All dogs need the things I mentioned above on some level in my opinion.

17/03/2022

A wet and not very pleased Harry who may have fallen into the water 😂

17/03/2022

Well said

🗣️ "𝗛𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗲'𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲!"

💵 If I had a dollar for every time I've heard somebody tell me this I'd be dressed like a Florida strip club owner, driving a Porsche 911 (high kms, poor overall condition) and I'd be able to afford that fancy d!ck extension surgery I saw on YouTube.

𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘: Assume that your dog has not a single, sollitary clue as to what he's done wrong.

💩 It's very likely that when you walk in the house and see a steaming pile of dog turd on your new rug, it hits you right in the feels.

☠️ Your facial expressions change, your heart rate soars like you've just had a crack at Pablo Escobar's private stash, you clench your fists, and your eyeballs pop out of your head like they do in a Ren & Stimpy episode.

🌩️ Your dog comes around the corner to greet you and sees this, he reads the change in weather, and he knows there are storms ahead.

🧠 𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗴?

🤷‍♂️ 𝗡𝗢. He knows this picture ain't good, but he has no clue that the cable he laid 15min ago is the source of your current malcontent.

🔎 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳 .

🐑 You know, that look of sheepishness that says "I dunno what this is all about, but it ain't good - and I better display this behaviour because I don't want the thunder and lightning that's a-comin'"

𝗥𝗨𝗟𝗘: If you don't catch your dog in the act of doing something you're not cool with, or immediately after, then you need to proceed as though the dog has no fc***ng clue what's going down when you cook off at him.

⚠️ So handle your internal scandal like a goddamm adult, don't take it out on the dog, and take full responsibliity for avoiding future occurrences by putting better management measures in place .

⛔ 𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴.

15/03/2022

Early morning stroll with Jax and board and train Lina who’s staying with me for a month 🐕

15/03/2022

Far too common unfortunately

Over social problem dog 😒

When a dog is going to meet another dog, that they don’t know, they will often walk up and scope the dog out, maybe walk in a circle and move in to identify each other’s odour.

This is normally carried out with a little caution and perhaps apprehension, as the dogs don’t know each other, that’s fine.

As they gain confidence and interact, the hesitation dissolves maybe they even begin to play.

So, your saying “my dog doesn’t do that!”

Well, no, they probably should though.

In our desperation to “socialise” our dogs, (well actually not me but many people) they take our dogs to play dates, dog parks, leash free beaches and MODIFY the natural, cautious, well-mannered approach and swap it to the extreme optimism that every dog would love to play with them.

So now, your dog sees a dog and races up to that dog and jumps all over them to play.
If you are saying “So what?” Well, know this is where dog fights often come from.

If the dog being approached has not had this misaligned education, they can feel stressed, frightened, defensive, and easily become aggressive.

There are a ton of video parodies people have made where the humans act like dogs and race up to each other, roughly jumping all over each other, forcing play from one another, without me having to making one, but people just don’t care.

Humans, as a group can be selfish, entitled and we want to see our dog happy, inventing sayings like ITS OK, HE IS FRIENDLY’ AND ‘she just wants to say hello”
Imagine if your child was scared of dogs, or even just lacked a little confidence and I let my dogs race up and jump all over your son or daughter?

How would you feel? Even if I said, “oh he loves kids he just HAS TO PLAY WITH EVERY ONE HE SEES!”

You allow your dog to do that to my child or my dog, and you are going to be very sorry.

Let me make this 100% clear, it is NOT THE DOGS FAULT.

It is a misunderstanding that PLAY is socialisation.

Play is a PART of socialisation, a small part.

A part that helps the dog learn that play is fun, but it is not an entitlement nor to be expected every time without giving the other dog some time to feel comfortable.

25/01/2022

Spot on!

05/01/2022

Hope everyone had a great Xmas and New Year! I know Jax and I have 😁
Looking forward to helping as many people and their dogs achieve their goals in 2022 as possible!

01/11/2021

Luna no longer dragging her owner down the road! Happy owner 😁

01/11/2021

Luna putting on quite the performance in the first video! A little bit of structure and direction added to her walk along with her harness in the bin and she’s walking great! After video coming 😊

22/10/2021

This is a massive issue for a lot of a lot of my clients! If you’re thinking about getting a puppy or have got one recently, READ THIS! Forget obedience and tricks, teach your puppy how to be independent and comfortable on their own. Crate training from an early age is also a must in my opinion.

I like to share this post every year or so. It always seems to be something folks are struggling with. SA is often unintentionally created, and often done so with good intentions but poor understanding.

•Pet your dog, all the time
•Talk to your dog, all the time
•Allow your dog to follow you, all the time
•Allow your dog to be on your lap or laying on your feet, all the time
•Pet, soothe, comfort your dog when it whines or barks for attention...or is simply anxious
•Allow your dog to demand affection/interactions
•Be emotionally dependent on your dog
•Allow your dog to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants
•Provide no structure or rules
•Refuse to crate train your dog
•Refuse to correct your dog when inappropriate behavior occurs
•Refuse to train your dog to be calm, relaxed, and independent by using a “Place” command, and/or “away” time in the crate
•Allow you and your home to be a free-for-all, where your dog has zero leadership and guidance
•Let your dog out of the crate when it whines or barks
•Avoid training or anything that makes your dog uncomfortable or unhappy
•And many, many more...

Basically, baby, soothe, allow, enable, lean on, and create a toxic dependency...so when you leave, your dog is a mess, because you haven’t prepared them to be strong, resilient, robust, independent, and alone.

21/10/2021

Loose leash walking with Vadar. Still got some work to do with his owner so she has all the tools to stay consistent with the training and doesn’t fall back into old habits.
This is a very common problem for the majority of pet dog owners! If you’d like to go for a walk without looking like you’re skiing or getting dragged down the road send me a message 😁