Metropawlitan Dog Training

10/16/2024

Food for thought. Training is as much technical learning as it is about understanding the relationship you cultivate with your dog. While the most common question I get asked is “How do I stop x behaviour”, the real question that often needs to be looked at is how are you yourself contributing to the problem behaviour? In my humble experience, this is often the root cause.

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05/17/2024

Playing with your dog shouldn't be a mindless, repetitive process. There are ways you can add dynamics to your game with your dog to make it more challenging, engaging, and fun for both of you to play. Let us show you some tweaks we've added to our existing game with our dog to keep things interesting, challenging, and super fun.
The best part? It develops focus, concentration, and better overall behaviour and bonding between you and your dog! Check out our blog post below as we share with you our favourite tweaks! https://wix.to/PIZgbVi

You already know we love combining training your dog and play rewards. But did you know you can make the game more challenging and fun?

05/07/2024

Just got an email from one of my sport dog students today and I just had to celebrate her success with all of you!

"Robbie went into this weekend’s trial needing one Standard and three Jumpers and she got them all, plus a Gamble. She earned her Masters Agility Dog of Canada, her Masters Jumper Dog of Canada and the big one, her Agility Trial Champion of Canada.

We couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks for all your help. Really looking forward to our next sessions."

Thank you so much for the opportunity to work with you and excited for how much more we'll be accomplishing in the future!

05/05/2024

What do you do when you and your heart puppy earn your first BH in the sport of IGP? Why, share a Tim Bit of course!

We want to extend a MASSIVE congratulations to Kristy Nelson for a wonderful accomplishment this weekend! We couldn’t be more proud of you two!

05/02/2024

Bit of confidence building and fun in training today.

05/01/2024

Day 8 with Frank means we need to start pushing distraction proofing. It’s my goal to have Frank as proofed and reliable as possible before his final day with me and we transition the training back to his owner.

04/30/2024

5 month old Frank is learning to maintain sit stays with me while I’m teaching a class. My Demo Dogs need a high degree of distraction proofing in order to be helpers to both me and my clients.

04/28/2024

Frank’s first time transitioning his Come training outdoors. Little did I know there was a soccer game going on!

04/27/2024

Frank just learned the concept of Place a day ago. Thanks to his puppy foundations (and just who he is) we started adding distraction proofing to this exercise ahead of schedule.

04/26/2024

Frankie is learning to sit patiently at the door before walking through it with me. I absolutely love this puppy!

04/26/2024

Frank is back with me for round 2 of Demo Dog training and I could not be more proud of this awesome puppy! At just 5 months and his 6th day of training with me, this was his first time working his down stay in front of a major distraction like this and I have to say he really made my heart swell with pride!

04/18/2024

Ever wonder what it's like behind the scenes as a dog trainer? Just like you, we're privvy to the same struggles that comes with puppy raising and training - even with numerous tools to work with. Our new series - Diary Of A Dog Trainer, will share with you our personal behind the scenes experiences of raising and training dogs! You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll learn a few things. But most of all, you'll know that you're not going through those dog training and raising triumphs woes alone!

https://wix.to/MuRSkBP

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Join me inside my first episode - The Diary Of A Dog Trainer a I go through the trials and tribulations of helping a puppy overcome his submissive p*e tendencies whenever he greets someone new.

04/16/2024

One aspect of training that’s taken me a while to grow to love but the deeper understanding I have of tracking the more I appreciate the process. Check out this study that was done to get a tiny glimpse of how incredibly amazing the dog’s sense of smell is.

Interessanter Artikel über eine Studie der Universität Oslo über die Fähigkeit der Hunde, die Richtung einer Spur zu bestimmen.
Getestet wurde mit Tracking-Dogs, also Fährtenhunden, die mit tiefer Nase suchen auf Gras und Asphalt.
Aber das Ergebnis spricht für sich.
Nach nur rund vier Metern (2-5 Schritte) auf der Fährte konnten sie die Richtung klar definieren.
Wenn man überlegt, wie gering der Altersunterschied des "Geruchs" auf diesen wenigen Metern ist, kann man sich vielleicht ungefähr vorstellen, wie gigantisch die Nasenleistung unserer Vierbeiner ist....

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/180/1/247/6534/Behaviour-of-Dogs-During-Olfactory-Tracking

04/05/2024

Quorra and I were filming today (blog post coming soon) to show you what we love doing best. Playing. That training happens is just a side note. A part of the game for us. When we work this way we bring out the best in each other. Our obedience is powerful and precise but relaxed. She invites me to play as freely as she offers obedience. Because both to her are one and the same - fun. Ironically it was when we were drilling hard every day that we were performing at our worst. Learning to work purposefully but relaxed hasn’t always been easy but it has definitely been worth it. How often do you genuinely play with your dog in training?

03/31/2024

Conversations you have with your dog…

03/30/2024

Buddy Blue is new to my Demo Dog program. While he’s been through obedience classes before with me he’s here to learn to work through his anxieties. His training is actually very solid. But like many dogs, when his state of mind is anxious even the simplest tasks are hard. We were practicing Place in this session but it wasn’t the team running agility behind me - it was my leaving him that caused him to want to break the exercise. Over the next few days, we’ll be reinforcing distance work and teaching him some confidence working away from his handler. We will also be giving him tools to help him achieve an overall calmer state of mind and be able to relax more at home and on his regular outings.

03/30/2024

As a seasoned Demo Dog, working with Quorra is as comforting and easy as putting on your favorite pair of gloves. That I can trust her so much that I don’t have to focus on her is an incredible blessing. Her job today was as critical as mine - calmly hold her position, staying completely neutral to help build other dogs’ confidence while I’m fully focused on coaching my human students. Throughout it all I’m feeding off her energy as much as she is mine. And the working partnership we share is how we’ve been able to successfully help so many dogs and owners over the years. I’m so grateful that it’s not only on the sport field but in day to day life that our working partnership is so strong. Want to get this level of reliability with your dog? Ask us about our upcoming training programs! We’d love to help you too!

03/27/2024

Teaching your dog or puppy to accept having her collar grabbed is one of the critical skills that we teach in our beginner pet obedience classes. Learn why this skill is so important to teach and how we teach it! https://wix.to/LUizdoT

Learn how we prevent dog bites from happening when a dog has his collar grabbed. This simple training tip is a great safety prevention.