Melanie Chin Canine Services

04/18/2024

Thank you so much to all my wonderful clients and to all of Orangeville for the honor of winning this award for best dog trainer!! 🏆 It's a privilege to work with dogs and the people who love them and I will endeavor to continue to do my absolute best ❤🐾

01/16/2024

Come over to the R+ side people! See what it's like to train your dog with reward based training and see their joy, trust and enthusiasm 🐶❤️

01/16/2024

Coldest night of the year so of course I had to go to the barn to see Mr Flooof 🥶🐴

01/15/2024

I've always been the type of person who has to push herself towards achieving goals. One of the biggest, most important ones for me was obtaining my certification as a behavior consultant, I still honestly can't believe I did it but I did!! I am now proudly a Certified Behavior Consultant Canine with the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers, Inc. 😁

01/08/2024

Hello friends! I'm looking for X pens, does anyone have any to sell or give away? Thanks!😘

01/05/2024

12/11/2023

😍 Just got this text from a new client after our first initial consultation 😍 I love what I do!! 🐶❤️🐾

"Yes follow up training in the new year would be great. Omg… I can’t. He is a new baby honest. We are using all the techniques you taught us. Wow in 48 hours. Unbelievable. Thank you so much. ❤️. Gar went out and bought everything you told him too. The freezer food with the carrot exhaust him. lol."

11/09/2023

❤️🐕❤️ This text from my client just made my day in so many ways!! They've worked so hard and long to achieve this❤️🐶❤️
"I have to share what happened today... We had a home inspector come in and he went through the whole house... Bolt was amazing... So friendly and happy... I can't thank you enough for everything you have done. He was such a happy boy. "

11/25/2022

Teaching recall with distractions. Here I throw a treat to Logan and tell him "get it". While he's distracted and turned away from me I say his name to get his attention and then I tell him what to do. In this case "come!". The reward for his recall is a treat tossed in the other direction. Great fun and proofing recall trainingl all in one 😁

11/06/2022

The highlight of my day yesterday was seeing Peggy A. Russell and baby Rosie (only 12 months old!) walking down Broadway for the FIRST time ever. When I met Rosie she was super sweet but very anxious, timid and reactive. Look at them now!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰

10/30/2022

Hi all! Here's a quick demo video on the importance of a release word. It's crucial to teach your pup that an open door/gate does not mean you can just go through, they must wait to be released.

10/04/2022

Hi everyone! Here's a break down of what I do: The training and behavior modifications strategies that I offer are based on first determining what your dogs’ needs are and how those needs can be met in a way that is appropriate and realistic. I do this by obtaining in-depth information about your dog’s lifestyle including exercise, sleep, diet, mental enrichment and overall health as well as his/her environment and how many people and other animals he/she lives with.
Then we sit down to discuss the behaviors that are working for you as a family and those that are problematic. Once we have a list we review the ways in which his/her lifestyle might be adjusted to meet the needs that aren’t being met. Before we start training I will help you understand your dog’s communication and body language and we discuss ways in which that communication might have been missed. Once we’ve done that we start training with positive reinforcement to teach the dog the behaviors that we want. As well, I teach you ways to re-direct them when they exhibit behaviors that we don’t want.
In some cases, when a behavior is related to an emotion that the dog is feeling, the first step is to determine what those feelings are and why he/she is feeling them. We do not try to change behavior until we understand why it’s happening. Then we work on strategies to change the dog’s feelings about a situation. For this I use classical conditioning as well as counter conditioning. This means that we try to create positive emotions around a given trigger by associating that trigger with good things happening.
In other cases, I will look at management strategies within the home to help set the dog up for success by examining the areas where problems are occurring and make suggestions to ways that we can change the environment.
Finally, I show you how to teach your dog to offer alternate behaviors that you can reinforce rather than trying to stop behaviors that are incompatible or inappropriate. So rather than telling your dog “no” you will begin telling your dog what to “do” instead.
Throughout this process I will offer the support you need, provide you with resources from which you can learn, links to where you can obtain the training tools that you will need as well as on-going training. I do as much or as little as needed to help you achieve the goals you have for your dog. :)

09/26/2022

Morning feels❤️❤️

09/26/2022

My spicy girl❤️

09/13/2022

This is so awesome!!

09/05/2022

08/08/2022

Here's a little more detail on how to teach the settle on your bed. I throw a cookie to get him off the bed, then I wait for him to think about what works for him, which in this case is going back on the bed. As soon as he figures that out and steps on the bed I click+treat. I will repeat this over and over every day. Eventually I won't click until he sits on the bed, then eventually I won't click until he lies down on the bed. 🐶👍🏻 Happy ➕ training everyone!

07/27/2022

You're looking for an easy way to settle your dog down!

🐶 You will love the simplicity of scatter feeding.
🐶 Foraging for food is a natural and relaxing behaviour.
🐶Scatter feeding will use up a lot of energy and encourage relaxation.
🐶Sniffing is tiring.
🐶For best results, scatter feed your dog regularly with a food they love.

Throw some tiny tasty treats (or their dinner if it's suitable) around your home or outside space and send your dog off to find them. You can also drop a few tiny treats on walks, if you need to distract your dog. It's much easier than trying to get their attention onto you.

07/22/2022

We assessed the efficacy of dog training with and without remote electronic collars compared to training with positive reinforcement. A total of 63 dogs with known off-lead behavioral problems such as poor recall were allocated to one of three training groups (each n = 21), receiving up to 150 min o...

07/16/2022

When we seek help for our dog's behaviour we tend to focus on stopping something unwanted.

Our aim is to make that behaviour go away.

But there's much more to it than that.

Dogs act how they do based on their feelings and their motivations.

They can’t tell us what either of those things are unless we know their language.

Unless we identify what they need.

Then work out another way to meet that need for them.

Ethically, we can't dive in to make the dog stop doing something.

We must start by watching and listening.

Learning from the dog.

Asking the following questions.

07/03/2022

Dogs need so much more than a walk and a meal. They need to be able to trust us, feel safe and have opportunities to practice their natural behaviour. They need to succeed to grow their self belief and resilience and they need to be understood when they are 'speaking' to us.