Stay is a fantastic self-control exercise to teach your dog, and can come in handy in many different situations.
How do you teach a stay?
✔️Have good treats
✔️Have a spot for your dog to stay
✔️Increase distance VERY slowly, giving your dog a treat when you walk back into them
✔️Work in short sessions
✔️Gradually make things harder with distance and distractions
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Does your dog have a reliable stay? Or do you have questions about teaching it? Ask or tell me below!
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Have you ever given your dog or cat a food ball?
They are great for many reasons:
✔️Exercise
✔️Mental stimulation
✔️Slows eating
✔️Fun
And keeps them busy and (somewhat) quiet while mimicking more natural feeding behaviour.
There are many different shapes, sizes, and designs to try.
Do you think your pet would like to eat their meals this way?
Hit pause to pick an activity to do with your pet today!
Spending just a few minutes focused on your pet doing something fun for both you and them can go a long way to building and strengthening the bond between you.
Hit pause to pick your activity, and save this for a day where you need some ideas!
Let me know what you tried!
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The basics of clicker training:
1. Pair the click with a treat. Click and treat 5-10 times a session over multiple sessions to develop the association between the sound of a click and the treat.
2. Begin training. Once you have the association, click when you get the behaviour you’re looking for and give a treat.
3. HAVE FUN!! It’s fun for people and animals!
What’s your favourite thing you’ve trained?
Want to understand what your pet is trying to tell you?
Step 1 - Look at their:
Posture
Mouth
Eyes
Ears
Tail
Movement
Start watching what they're doing with their bodies when in different situations to help you learn how to read their body language.
A herding dog calm around chickens?
Well, not all the time, but mostly, yes. When the ladies are running, flapping and excited first thing in the morning it’s a bit difficult for this adolescent Aussie.
But, we worked really hard introducing the chickens to Marmalade as chicks and rewarded calm, quiet behaviour. They gradually just became part of the scenery around here.
Now, the chickens often run up to her when she approaches the fence and her favourite place to lie outside is by their pen.
Clicker training a puppy with kids
What activities do you like to do with your dog and children? Add a picture in the comments below!
Clicker training a puppy with the help of children.
A great way to solidify a positive relationship with your dog and your children.
To learn easy and fun activities you can do that involve your children and your dog, sign up for my free 5-day challenge! In 5-10 minutes a day, you can work on training your dog, give the family fun activities to do, and incorporate your children while solidifying their relationship with their dog.
An activity you can do with your kids and dogs
Teaching a puppy what the sound of a clicker means with kids. For a free 5 day challenge filled with activities you can do with your kids and dogs, go to bit.ly/dogandkids
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