🚙 If your dog ignores you and pushes past you when you arrive to your favourite trailhead, doggy daycare, agility class, or cottage, her safety is at risk.
If she bolts out of your vehicle in a busy parking lot, she could get hit by a car. One of my clients lost his dog for hours at a trail because she bolted out of his truck.
At the Calmness Club ™ you’ll learn how to become relevant at your car door.
When you’re relevant at this step, your dog won’t dart past you:
🤕 dragging you to the ground
🐿️ to chase a squirrel or a🐰🦌
🐩 or accidentally end up starting a fight in the parking lot
If you currently need to hold your dog back so that they stay in the vehicle, there is an easier way.
✅ practice relevancy at all doorways as well as your car door
✅ wait for natural eye contact vs calling their name or waving a treat— it’s worth the wait
✅ be patient with yourself and your dog — learning new things takes time and you’re doing great
DM me to get added to the Calmness Club waiting list 🐾
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Tired of feeling embarrassed every time you take your dog out in public?
It’s time to make reactive blow-ups a thing of the past.
One of the reasons reactive dogs stay reactive is because when they’re out on regular walks and they have a reaction (barking, lunging, etc.) all of the humans rush away from each other in embarrassment. The dogs never get the chance to learn how to be calm passing by each other.
Do you know who else doesn’t get a chance to practice calmly walking by other dogs? You! The dog owner. It’s really hard to get good at something you never get the chance to practice. That’s why we created the Calmness Club™.
The Calmness Club provides dog owners the chance to practice calmness and neutrality while working alongside other dogs.
Unlike the dogs, you see in your day-to-day life who disappear as soon as your dog reacts, these dogs and their owners stand by you and support you - in fact, they cheer you on!
DM me to get added to the waiting list 🐾
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Worried because your dog barks at your neighbour’s dog?
Or maybe your dog fence fights the neighbour’s dog?
If your neighbours get a new puppy or a rescue dog, these tips will help:
✅ accompany your dog outside every time she goes (use a leash to provide clear guidance)
✅ breathe and act as though nothing has happened (if you react to every bark from the neighbour’s yard, your dog will react as well.)
✅ engage your dog with play or enjoy teaching her something new (work on her on-leash recall; teach her how to heel on the leash; practice a new trick you’ve been working on; etc.)
➡️ If your dog has done a lot of placework around distractions, you can incorporate place into your outdoor routine as well.
➡️ If your dog is new to placework, keep the sessions short, fun, and positive. Practice place after your regular walk or play session.
Struggling with fence fighting or excessive barking in your yard? Don’t wait for the fence fighting to ripple into leash reactivity on your walks, schedule your free call now. Link in my bio 🐾
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Ever feel like dog training is as complicated as doing your taxes?
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by your dog’s behaviour and have given up hope, try this ⬇️
Make the decision today to try again.
I believe we all need to have more room for self compassion and to give ourselves grace that trying is enough.
You don’t have to perfect by the end of the day.
Your dog doesn’t have to be perfect by tomorrow morning when the Amazon driver pulls up to your house.
You just need to do a little bit every day and eventually the little bits will add up.
If you’re finding dog training to be super confusing and don’t know where to start, put your questions down below.
I would love to help you gain some clarity.
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Does your dog listen to your partner better than she listens to you?
It can feel so frustrating!
It’s so important to practice leash skills in an area of low distraction first (like inside the house) before working around distractions (like dogs, bikes, wildlife, bunny poo, and yep, life partners.)
If your partner is as distracting as a bag of treats being dumped on the ground, practice around them once your dog understands how to listen to you in areas that have low to moderate distractions first.
And let’s talk about how amazing the break command is ⬇️
Imagine finally of having a way to communicate to your dog that it’s potty time, sniff time, or play with toys time! You can kiss leash pulling goodbye forever 💋
If your dog currently pulls you toward every single distraction during your walks, it’s not only painful to your body, but can eventually lead to their trachea collapsing. That way of walking is hurting both of you.
Ready to have a dog who listens to everyone in the family and finally put a stop to leash pulling?
Schedule your free call now. Link in my bio.
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Struggling with your walk because your dog pulls you everywhere? These tips will help:
✅ teach your dog the foundations (heel, break, come, let’s go, natural eye contact at doorways, etc) in an area of low distraction (eg. inside your home)
✅ add little distractions gradually before practicing outside the home
In this video clip, one of my clients accidentally added a distraction before their dog was ready for it.
🌻Who knew that just picking some pretty dried flowers from the garden could throw your dog off so much?! (Trainers, put your hands down, 😉)
Once your dog has mastered the basics and you’re ready to add easy distractions, just adding your partner in the room ignoring your dog (texting, reading, pretending to talk on their phone, etc.) is tricky to navigate at first.
Help your loved ones out by being an easy distraction at first (ignore your dog and be stationary) and then gradually increase the challenge (walk through the room; walk through the room and say “hi” to your partner; etc.) Add more difficult distractions as your dog and partner are ready (eg. working out or stretching on a mat; run up the stairs; cooking dinner, etc.)
Doing repetitions like this prepares you for working outdoors around bigger triggers like squirrels, other dogs, neighbours, joggers, garbage on the ground, etc.
A dog who can’t listen to you inside your home will not listen to you outside your home.
Set yourself and your dog up for success by going slowly and enjoying the process.
✅ Ready to stop leash pulling?
Schedule your free call now. Link in my bio.
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Thanksgiving was a disaster.
Your dog jumped on your guests.
She stole food off of countertops, tables, and great aunt Susie’s plate.
Every time someone went to the washroom and came back, she lost her mind — barking at them as if she never seen them before.
If that wasn’t horrifying enough, she nipped your uncle.
You had to lock her up in a bedroom.
She was miserable and so were you.
You’re worried that Christmas will be a nightmare.
Real talk: if you do nothing, it will be.
⭐️ The good news is that there’s still spaces in my roster for in-home training this fall and there’s also two spaces left in the Calmness Club ™.
Sign up now on my website to make sure that the holidays are merry and bright at your home this year.
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🌜Dog lovers often pull over to ask me where I bought my light-up toque. They share scary stories about how they were almost run over while out walking their dogs in the dark.
At this time of year, it’s dark for those early morning walks, and evening walks are also happening after sunset.
This year, it’s still way too hot to wear my light-up Hallowe’en toques, so I pulled out this ghost necklace from my Hallowe’en bin instead.
You can also use bike lights, headlamps, and MEC sells really cool arm bands that I bought for my niece and nephew when they were obsessed with lights 🔦 The arm bands are called Slaplit rechargeable LED slap straps. They’re fun to use so kids love them (big kids too 😉) Like all my favourite gear, it’s made by Nite Ize.
Ripple is wearing the NiteHowl LED safety necklace from Nite Ize 🐶 It provides 60 hours of glow time and it’s rechargeable 🔌
Did you know that if you use the setting that toggles between colours you’ll need to recharge less frequently?
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So grateful for the amazing and thoughtful staff @gl.eramosa.
Together we are helping dogs who are waiting for their forever homes have a little more comfort.
Rescue workers and foster families are always short on towels. They use them to:
-line whelping boxes
-make comfy nests in dog crates
-wipe muddy paws
Thank you to everyone at Goodlife Eramosa for this amazing donation.
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Worried your dog will lunge at a stranger and you’ll lose your grip on the leash?
Or maybe you don’t drop the leash and your dog pulls you to the ground or down your front steps?
The solution to this problem is to teach your dog to politely go out the front door AND politely down steps with you.
Our in-home training sessions help struggling owners stop dangerous leash pulling.
You’ll enjoy:
☀️weekly in-home sessions
☀️homework that you and your dog will both enjoy doing
☀️email support between sessions to make sure you’re on track
Don’t wait until your dog bites a stranger or pulls you into traffic.
📱Schedule your free call now.
Scheduling your free call is easy. Just follow the link in my bio to my website, select the date and time that works for you, and smile because you’ll actually get to talk to a real live person —me!
Don’t spend another day being yanked to the ground. Become a confident dog owner who has life under control.
You deserve calm walks with your dog.
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🐾 Throwback Thursday 🐾
When I first met Ellie, the effects of inhaling non-stop marijuana smoke were still in her system, making her eyes bloodshot.
She’d also been raised to believe everyone who came to the front door was a life or death threat.
Her new owners love to entertain, so their goal was to be able to have lots of guests over and for Ellie to feel safe and relaxed.
By providing guidance and teaching Ellie that she no longer needed to be a guard dog, Ellie has since become a wonderful family member.
Need help teaching your new rescue dog how to relax at the front door?
Tips:
🐾 Teach your dog how to relax beside you on the leash when there’s less distractions around first, before practicing guest greetings with family members.
🐾 Teach your dog how to love relaxing in her crate. Brand new rescue dogs do not need to rush your front door or be pressured to interact with your guests (this can set them up for failure AKA biting a well-meaning dog lover who reaches out to pet them before they are ready for that.)
🐾 Teach your dog the place command. The place command provides your dog with a safe relaxation zone and clear direction of what to do instead of bark hysterically, charge the front door, jump on your guests, etc.
Struggling to teach your dog to relax when guests knock on the door?
📱 Schedule your free call now. Link in my bio.
💫 Your new rescue dog deserves to feel relaxed— and so do you.
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🚙 You brought your dog to a trail head so you can go for a nice walk. You open the door to let your dog out and she’s already looking past you and trying to push out the door. Basically she’s trying to go straight through you.
When you finally get her attention and let her out, she’s pulling on the leash, yanking at every smell on the ground, and reacting to every dog and person walking by.
To help with this, make sure that you wait for meaningful eye contact before letting your dog out of the car.
Also, when you let them out be sure to direct them so they know what to do instead of pulling. Maybe you want them to sit so you can close the door and gather your things for your hike. Maybe you need to do a little leash work before you pick up your backpack and get ready for your hike, and that’s OK too.
It’s so important to take your time.
There’s three ways you can learn and practice these techniques with us:
🚙 in-home training sessions (so you can learn in a less distracting environment and make sure that your car ride is also calm)
🚙 field trips (available to all of our clients who have completed in-home sessions)
🚙 The Calmness Club™ (practice your skills around other dogs)
💰Register now and you’ll enjoy the early bird discount.
Calmness Club Dates:
Sundays from 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM on September 29; October 6, 20, 27
Location: Grand Bark in Fergus
Signing up is easy!
✅ DM me your email address and I will send you the link to sign up
Can’t wait to help you with your calmness (and 🚙) goals 💫
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