Tails of success

10/13/2024

10/08/2024

09/11/2024

dog training is sometimes ¹0 steps forward and 5 steps back... when your dog has regressed, go back to very basic training. Revisit commands and expectation from the probñem behavior. If yoyr struggling with your dog barking at other dogs on your walks, revisit strategies such as distraction, run past distraction. Reinforce what your dog already knows until he is back on track.

Do not waver. Be consistant. When you do this consistantly, the more difficult behaviours start to fade. Sometimes without directly training.

08/24/2024

Results

08/16/2024

This dog part of breed nortoriously barks with other dogs. Today sat as trained for a straight 5min. As these dogs approched. Play time was the reward!

08/03/2024

Dog training tips for program training:
1. Committed
2. Invested
3. It’s a process
4. Do the work and you will get results
5. Try not to control the program
6. Even if it doesn’t look like you’re going to achieve the results in the given time frame, trust the process because once a dog gets it everything comes together, quite quickly.Sometimes in the last week.
7. Prepare to be coached, as effective dog training isn’t just about the dog.

08/03/2024

The psychology of dog training: often the exact same behaviour that is coming out in the dog is coming out in the human while we train. The reason why training can not be like a utube video is because as much in the human has to be coached and corrected as does the dog. My programs ultimately change something in human as well. Both the owner and the dog has to learn something about themselves.

08/02/2024

Why train?
When it seems we are not succeeding.

Diligence is key factor in our success. Stay to the course teaches your dog that the rules do not change, and when we have a dog with difficult issues and a strong personality…to gain respect and change that behaviour. Persistence and consistency is essential.

What happens when we train constantly is that no matter how much we struggle our dogs will process the information through consistent instructions; consistent corrections, and consequences.

In doing so your canine will start to put other information together about past training and other behaviour starts to fall off the wagon. For example, I trained 2 Great Pyrenese dogs that were persistent in them having things their way. As litter mates they wanted leadership over their owner,and when training, they will focus on each other before their owner.

When we would go out for walks the female who likes to stir trouble between them would get triggered sometimes by other dogs, but sometimes, which took a long time to learn because was because she was tired, or needed time alone with her owner and for other various factors. However, she would start to play fight with her brother,which could not happen in public because they are large dogs, the male weighing in at 250. They would be up on their hind legs, running circles around her owner, sometimes dropping her to the ground. Looking like she had zero control.

So what do we do in these difficult behavioral situations. First, I started teaching the command STOP. And click. Then reward when she automatically started to sit and stop. This took 6 long months. Everytime the behavior started I would say “ STOP” and make her sit, sometimes holding her in sit position, I would instruct her owner to take them home (consequences),and the next walk they would walk separately . Requiring the energy for two walks. In a day, or a week later I would try it again. And if they acted up, they would take them home.

Thus was very frustrating and almost gave up…but persisted. One day they were so intent. Her owner fell down a hill…and this is where it all changed. It clicked what they were doing, and the dog
stopped. Not only did she STOP, but Everytime after that when they acted up she would sit, and stop.

Now, their second difficult behavior was charging and barking to play with other dogs, while out on walks. Hence, the other behaviour corrected, they processed the sit and stop, and automatically started to STOP barking at other dogs or at least leaping to get to them by sitting.

Our canine companion learns through repitition and consistency with commands, step by step building on owner expectation and skill.

The second point with a canines learning is that they begin to internally understand the command in different contexts. So do not give up. Stay tuned to your current regime they will get it, and put the training together, but it rarely happens the way we think it is going to.

Often as owners there is also something we have to change about ourselves; our body language, tones, and our own behaviour is where we get those results.

08/02/2024

Get specific with your dog. Part of agility obedience is getting your dog to obey commands. The more commands and language we use, the more they learn. Canine learning also comes with movement. If we’re ask our dog to sit…where do you want them sitting? In front of you, beside you? Then take it another notch and get them lined up with toes. Be creative but give your dog these specifics. Most people will take whatever their dog decides. Don’t settle. Dogs really love this stuff. Speed up, and slowdown and expect your dog to adjust their speed to yours.

08/01/2024

Agility with obedience brings essential skills together faster, and gets the owner and dog working together better.

07/18/2024

Too much: Incresse frequency, duration, and difficulty of your walks. Add in some games like tug, fetch and agility training that wears a dogs energy down fast.

07/09/2024

Creating a boundary in this situation taught this dog where to go when she gets out of the house instesd of running to other neighborhoods and into busy streets.

06/02/2024

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06/02/2024

Is your dog respecting you? Does he come when called, or run away? Completely ignores you? How do we gain that respect? Through consistency, and following through. If we keep calling our dogs name to come or sit over and over, our dogs do not take us seriously, and laugh at us. If we say sit, expect them to sit on the first command. Let them respond and then push that bum down. Furthermore, if we make them sit one day, and let them ignore us the next, they do not take us seriously and will ignore everything. Consistent actions on our part every single time is key.

05/31/2024