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Hi, I’m Ryan, the founder of Animal Training Academy and a Karen Pryor Academy – Certified Training Partner . Since 2007 , I’ve been working as a professional animal trainer around the world, including in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the US. I’ve trained teams, developed animal trainin...

25/05/2024

Our Odie learning some new tricks :)

12/05/2024

🐾 How pets can improve your mental health... 🐾

Created by: The Just, Girl. Project

01/06/2023

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24/01/2023

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Most Intelligent Dog Breed:

Border Collie No Longer No. 1

A study by researchers from Helsinki has now checked which dog breed is the smartest

Who's the smartest of them all? 🤔

The dogs were examined for the following competencies:

*Troubleshooting
*impulse control
*gesture reading
*copying human behavior
*memory performance
*logical thinking

Smartest Dog Breed:

German Shepherd relative wins

Labrador retrievers, for example, did particularly well in reading gestures. The dogs, on the other hand, found it more difficult to solve spatial problems. Border Collies did very well, as expected, but were beaten by the Malinois. Also known as the Belgian Shepherd Dogs, the Malinois performed amazingly in the tests. They almost got full marks. Only the cylinder test presented them with greater difficulties. In this test, the dogs had to locate a treat under an opaque cylinder

25/10/2022

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10/10/2022

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Motivational Monday

13/09/2022

THE CHOICE TO CHOOSE
WHY DOGS SHOULD BE ALLOWED CHOICE
Imagine that every little detail of your life is controlled - what and when you eat, where you sleep, when you’re allowed inside or outside, when you’re allowed to go out for a walk and if you’re allowed to stop and explore, who you’re allowed or forced to interact with, what activities (if any) you’re allowed to participate in, when you’re shown affection or receive attention, where you’re allowed to be touched etc., etc.…. This situation would create stress and anxiety, a feeling of helplessness, apathy, a lack of confidence and many other negative emotions. The same is true for dogs.
Dogs live in a world where just about everything is controlled by us. Allowing choice, no matter how simple that choice may be, provides many benefits. The context in which we allow choice is obviously relevant. Safety, boundaries, environmental factors, other people or animals always need to be taken into account.
Dogs that are allowed some control over their environment and how they respond to situations are more confident, more emotionally balanced, better able to cope with stressful situations, less anxious, less stressed and have fewer behaviour problems.
Allowing simple choices like which direction to take on a walk, which tree to wee on, how long to sniff that fascinating blade of grass or which toy to play with, which treat to choose, what game to play or allowing your dog to choose to interact or be touched by someone are all simple ways that we can provide choice for our dogs and help them to cope in a world that controls them.

08/09/2022

We have experienced this with traumatised horses that have come here over the years.

This is why horses who have been stressed or are struggling with anxiety or physical trauma are sometimes extremely sensitive to being touched/brushed/cuddled/anticipating painful touch....

REMEMBER look for the reasons behind the behaviour. Hold space rather than invade it and touch touch touch. Respect the species. Respect the relationship. 🧐💓

28/08/2022

Sharing our lives with dogs is a privilege, one that we should not take lightly. We have to make sure that we are the best guardians to them that we can possibly be, and respecting their emotions, their choices, and their wishes is a huge step towards that.

27/08/2022

27/08/2022

Thinking of behaviour as good or bad predisposes us to attribute meaning to that behaviour that is not accurate. 'Stubborn' - or confused and unmotivated? 'Nasty' - or scared? Behaviour tells us how the dog feels at that moment in their environment, and it's up to us to learn how to interpret what they are communicating.

22/08/2022

Dog parks aren’t for all dogs.

13/08/2022

Here's some stats for you to know in 2022...

A total of 112,530 animals were received by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) in 2019–2020. Dogs and cats were the most frequently rescued species.

A total of 3,466 dogs and 9,714 cats were euthanased by the RSPCA in 2019–2020.

57,910 animal cruelty complaints were investigated between 2019 and 2020 of the 73,997 complaints that were lodged. Only 359 of these investigations resulted in prosecution.

Approximately 200,000 stray or surrendered dogs are admitted to shelters and municipal rescue facilities each year in Australia.

Of the 200,000 dogs admitted to shelters, approximately 20% of them are euthanased.

10,207 dogs rescued by the RSPCA were reclaimed by their owners.

11,442 of the dogs rescued by the RSPCA were re-homed successfully.

The number-one reason for euthanasing dogs in shelters is aggressive behaviour. Aggression accounts for 53% of all cases of dogs that were euthanased.

Australia’s Department of the Environment announced a plan to cull over 2 million cats in 2020 due to overpopulation.

Adopt don't shop! And for the love of god DESEX YOUR PETS!

Animal shelters are calling on the public to urgently adopt pets, particularly dogs, as they hit capacity.

11/08/2022

NAUGHTY OR NORMAL?
What we may think of as problem behaviour that needs to be “fixed” is very often just a dog behaving like a normal dog. Dogs that don’t behave the way we expect may be labelled as untrained, disobedient, unsociable, reactive or aggressive.
We often expect so much of our dogs, expecting them to obey our every instruction, understand, adapt and conform to our world, forgetting that they are not only a different species, but also have breed specific, instinctive, natural behaviour.
While we would all love our dogs to be well behaved, obedient and sociable, the reality is often very different. Besides the fact that dogs will be dogs, their genetics, life experiences, the environment they find themselves in and their individuality all play a part in the way they behave.
Accepting that our dogs will behave like dogs do, makes it easier to deal with the frustration we may feel when our dogs are not behaving the way we expect them to.
Doing what we can, using force free, positive reinforcement methods and managing the environment to change behaviour we don’t want, accepting that there may be some things that we can’t change, will help both us and our dogs live with less stress.

08/08/2022

AMEN!!!!

08/08/2022

Rescue dogs are AWESOME!!!!

⚠️ URGENT- PLEASE READ BAZZAS STORY ⚠️

What we are about to tell you has rattled all of us here at DARE to the CORE.

Baz was surrendered to another animal welfare organisation but he didn't pass the adoption criteria due to being an extensive fence jumper. He was booked in to be euthanised.

The staff were desperately trying to advocate for him to go to another rescue who could address his issues but no one was in a position to take him. We said yes, he should NOT be killed just because of being a roamer.

We had no carer for Baz and despite desperate pleas all over our social media, no one came forward. What were we going to do with a dog that can jump fences which no one wants but if we don't stick to our word, he dies?

Working alongside some other rescue giants, they offered to help with kennels in the mean time and a run to use until we found someone. The teamwork amongst the rescue presidents was going to buy us time to find someone.

Finally a lovely lady called Lauren came forward. We warned her that we don't know what his nature was like and that he was an escape artist. Despite heavy work commitments and travel plans, they didn't even hesitate and welcomed him into their home.

Lauren and her family were going away to Sydney and so they asked her mother to baby sit Baz in their home. Well, they hit it off and bonded pretty quickly. Baz was a quiet little shadow who ever so politely asked for pats. Not once did he try to leave their property.

Last Friday morning, Lauren's mum returned to their property for a visit to see her 2 grand babies (one with and one with out fur). She pulled up in their driveway and Baz got rather excited.

While the family were at the other end, Our quiet boy Baz went NUTS. The family came to the garage and there was Lauren's mum unconscious on the ground and our boy frantically licking her face.

She had no pulse.

Lauren's mum had suffered an extensive heart attack and gone into cardiac arrest. The pair began CPR while doing the absolutely agonizing wait for the paramedics.

Baz never left her side.
He remained at her head licking her face.

The paramedics had to issue 3 rounds of defibrillation before nanny regained a pulse. She was rushed to hospital where she has spent the last week In CCU undergoing treatment for her heart.

Baz helped save her life.

The boy who was going to be killed
The boy who no one wanted.
The boy who people assumed was broken because he was surrendered to a shelter.
The boy who only JUST made it out in time thanks to some animal advocates.

Too many people STILL have this warped idea that a dog in a pound is there for a reason. There because they did something wrong.
There because they aren't worth it.
There because they deserve to be.
There because they don't come with papers.

We don't deserve dogs.
Humans fail dogs every single day yet they remain forgiving, loyal and selflessly give us endless love.

His name is Baz.
He IS worth something.
He IS deserving.
He is JUST as valuable as your $5000 crossbreed ending in "oodle".
In fact, he saved his foster nannys life which means he's worth more than you could ever afford.

You can't buy love. But you can RESCUE it.