Elite K9 Training

02/01/2025

Two amazing local businesses supporting eachother! Kristen Sinclair from The Cobourg Pet Nanny offers in home nail trims, pet sitting and walking! Most of my clients use her services and cannot get enough of her! Especially their pets! Highly recommend 1000%. She has brought one her dogs Cindra to Jess & Pets for daycare and absolutely had a blast!!

01/31/2025

Sometimes dogs fight and it can be extremely stressful for everyone involved in the household. These tips are proactive, these are not meant for dogs that are already having issues with eachother in the household. If you are experiencing these issues, please contact a certified force free trainer or behaviourist. Fighting doesn’t go away on its own, dogs typically get better at it the more it happens.

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01/31/2025

01/31/2025

Beware! Dog can’t hold its licker 😂

01/31/2025

I have the BEST dog sign from Let Us Create2 and yummy delicious treats for the dogs, AND $10 goes to these rescues!

01/30/2025

Nova and Chevy putting their best smooshy face forward 🐶😊

01/30/2025

Love that some force free trainers made the cut!

01/29/2025

I gots my kong bone! Baxter taking a little break during his first training lesson 🙌

01/29/2025

Teaching your dog to relax on a bed can be super helpful in so many situations! Be sure to first train it in an area that is easy for your dog first before adding distractions. 🐶

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01/28/2025

Ugo loving his forever home! Still all smiles after his first training lesson 🐶😍

01/27/2025

Keep Calm ☺️ 🐶

01/25/2025

Graduation night for these amazing guys! Keep up the great work! Check out our website for upcoming start dates 🎓🐶

01/24/2025

Management and Training just go together! 🙌

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01/22/2025

Yet another enrichment post. The options are endless! And this week so far has been a combination of a lot and of indoor enrichment and some outdoors 🥶🐶IG hastags
🦴Top Tip of the Day!

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01/22/2025

WHOSE WALK IS IT ANYWAY?

Imagine going on a long-anticipated walk, through new scenery and exciting smells after being cooped up in the same place all day, but you have been fitted with a blind fold and are being dragged or yanked along at a fast pace.

I imagine that this is how dogs feel when we don’t allow them time to stop, sniff and explore the environment.

Dogs largely perceive their world through scent and it’s how they collect and process information to help the world make sense.

Taking away an opportunity for sniffing on a walk really isn’t being fair.. As much as physical exercise is important, the mental stimulation that sniffing provides is equally, if not more important.

Allowing dogs to choose when to stop and sniff provides so many benefits – increases self-confidence, promotes calmness, lowers stress and anxiety levels, lowers pulse rates, reduces cognitive decline in older dogs and provides important mental and environmental enrichment.

Make time for a slow sniffing walk when you can, where your dog is allowed to choose which direction to go and allowed time to just investigate, interpret, process the environment and follow wherever their nose leads them.

It may take far more time and patience as we wait for them to finish smelling that particular blade of grass, but the benefits are well worth it – after all, whose walk is it anyway?

01/22/2025

Calling all dog models!

01/21/2025

Chase is more likely not doing any chasing on this frigid day! 🥶 stay warm 🔥

01/21/2025

This!

There is often a discussion of certain training practices providing "safety" for dogs. Particularly in the use of shock collars, that shock collars provide 'safety' for a dog being off a leashed line. The truth of the matter is that these things fail, often in spectacular, dangerous fashions. But the key that is missed in these discussions is that physical safety is not the only priority in dealing with our dogs. Emotional/Mental safety are JUST as important. Some might argue in many ways they are even more of a priority.

The feeling of being safe, emotionally, reduces reactivity, aggression, distraction, and things like bolting/disappearing/escape. It is not enough that our dogs are just physically safe, we need to ensure they FEEL safe as well. For me my top priority is always; everyone is safe. First and foremost. But in that umbrella I consider the emotional well being of the animals and their human counterparts as just as significant as the physical safety of their dogs. Because when we feel safe, confidence, exploration, bonding, and strong relationships follow.

It is not possible for a living being to feel safe in an environment where physical harm for 'wrong' action is ever-present. That is not how punishment avoidance works. (The brain cannot seek to avoid punishment AND seek reinforcement, it can only do one at a time.) As part of my commitment to Safety First I actively avoid punishment techniques, force and coercion in teaching, because it allows my learners to always feel safe with me.

Safety First: Physical. Emotional/Mental. For everyone involved.