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Enrich your dogs life!....Fun games based training.
Flexibility
For many reactive/anxious dogs confidence is their biggest issue. In our classes we spend a lot of time building confidence and flexibility.
Building relationship and focus to the handler is key to being able to work in new enviroments under all sorts of pressures. When faced with a distraction, does your dog choose you over the distraction?
I love teaching and watching the dogs grow in so many ways through FUN interaction. Here is some students putting their dogs confidence and flexibility to the test playing commando.
Classes are held friday night 7pm and saturday mornings 8am.
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Boundary Games = Awesomeness
We love teaching Boundary Games :) .....I guess one of the biggest reasons is because we & so many others have found them so beneficial.
So what are the benefits?....
*They promote and develop impulse control.
*They help to balance and level out arousal as needed and can even boost motivation and enhance your overall
relationship with your dog.
*They can also decrease arousal and help to promote calmness (yes boundaries can do both)!
*On a practical level they will help with dogs who counter surf,
* they can help to prevent jumping up,
* help to improve recall and generally help to improve all basic behaviour and manners in many different places
and habitats.
To your dog they mean this: You go in/on/to this area on cue You stay in this area and are calm You do not move from this until you hear your release cue (break, free, okay, go) Your release cue means leave the area and then come to interact with me. If the boundaries are taught well, they will default to the boundary themselves without a cue when certain scenarious happen, eg: someone comes to the front door, you are eating your dinner.
Manners Matter Classes
Dog Training Success
Turn your struggles into strengths with our Fun Classes!
Does your dog, pull on lead, bark at fences, react to other dogs/people, counter surf, does your dog ignore you?
If your answer to any one, or all of these is YES! ...then we have the solution for you!
Our course is tried and tested....and the results to our game based training have been astounding!
We still have limited spots available in our Saturday class.
*Small classes for optimal learning.
*24/7 help through our closed group page.
*you will receive an ebook for reference.
*$25.00 per class
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We believe in creating an awesome relationship with your dog. I love how the games have made my girl so incredibly happy to be with me and loves to learn. She is off lead and the focus is right with me and not the environment around. In this video she is learning to be optimistic by carrying an article in her mouth for me.
Creating Calm.
Many behavioural issues are due to the fact we fail as owners to teach our dogs calmness. We take our puppies home and we get all excited around them, we want them to play, run and jump....all very cute until you have a over excited adult dog that just has never been taught to come down from that high level of arousal. Whether your dog is a show dog, competitive sports dog or your family pet, teaching your dog to be able to completely relax and have time out is so important.
With our creating calm classes we will teach you about why dogs have reactiveness, how you can get optimum preformances from your show and competitve sports dogs. How you can go from complete calmness to getting grit and high drive, then bring them back down to complete calmness again.
For any naughty but nice dogs creating calmness is a class you dont want to miss.
Oliver
What games have you played with your dog today?
Here Naughty but Nice Oliver starts off with over excitment, but with some scatter feed quickly comes back down to a level of calmness. He then does some off lead walking, before once again being taken into excitment with some games. His focus is on me, which is great, and he is more than happy to orientate back to me even with the distractions of dogs barking, a drone being flown over head, some ducks on the field, some sprinklers going, and some balls games over the field and other distractions.
Self control and positions can be taught using a simple box. In the video Koco has to work in her given area. There is nothing stopping her from trying to work outside the box. She chooses to work in the box to be able to earn her reward.
Using a simple cardboard box allows the dog to learn impulse control as well as improve body awareness. By performing the various positions Koco has to think about which parts of her body to move to ensure she stays on her platform.
For those dogs competing in obedience learning to not move forward on changes of position is important. For everyone else (other than the physical benefits of body awareness) this is a great excercise to incorporate in your dogs fun and fames.
Door manners - a fantastic opportunity to teach impulse control and choice. The dog chooses to sit and wait for the command to be given before entering.
As you can see in the video when the dogs move the gate starts to close. They aren't told to sit and wait instead they worked out that each time they move the gate is closed.
Once the gate is open all the way they still need a release word before they can move. In this case they had a hand signal. Their release word is usually Okay.
By teaching door manners you build impulse control and reward with a permission word. Permission is a powerful reward for a dog.
Have fun teaching door manners. If you have any questions feel free to ask 😀.
Little GSD puppy Max is introduced to one of our Manners Matters Optimism obstacle courses. And......What a fantastic job he did!
Check out the Trixie puzzle board. These as well as other great canine enrichment products will be available at the Santa Paws in the Park market Cleveland, Queensland nxt sunday.
We brought in a small quantity of these enrichment toys from the US. They have been hitting the world by storm on the canine enrichment sites. It turned out a monumentous task to get our hands on them. But today we unwrapped our box like it was Christmas. Of course we had to road test it on our 3 goldens to see what the hype was about. Well they chomped and chewed and licked for hours. Bonus surprise for the dogs when the head squeaked. I filled them with a rice, pumpkin and bone broth mixture and watched their tails wag.
Message us if you would like details.
Building confidence in a puppy is a good way to help prevent dog problems in the future. In this video a 10 week old GSD is playing in the ball pool for the first time. You can see how he has to work it out for himself that he needs to get in the ball pool to find the treats. It is entirely up to him how long it takes or how much of his body he puts into the pool. Building confidence is about the dog or puppy finding their own way into, around or over the obstacle. We can offer encouragement and incentives for them to engage in a new activity. By rewarding behaviour when they engage in the activity this becomes a positive experience that creates confidence. We do not put the dog in the pool or force them in - they choose to engage. Once this puppy had been in the pool in this video he returned to it later and climbed in without any hesitation even though we had doubled the numbers of balls (it was set up for the adult dogs).
Canine Enriched Garden
Canine enrichment is a great passion of mine. So hubby and I set about to improve our backyard. This is just the beginnings of something that will be awesome! I shared this on some dog fb pages and the reaction/likes and comments were beyond anything I had contemplated.
Hope I inspire others to enrich their dogs lives too! :)
