Devoted Dog - Certified Professional Dog Training

10/01/2024

-6 to -10 Celcius on the radar for weather forecast. Tomorrow’s west coast temperatures 📉decrease rapidly. Most vulnerable are small dogs, dogs in poor health and senior dogs. Tufts Animal Condition Care and Conditions(TACC) goes into more details about coats and measurements.

Quick eliminations and back inside. Cold westher dog coats and boots keep your pets safe from elements as well.

Excerise in the house with training games and enrichment activities for bonding with your dogs.

Chart Source: Adapted from the Tufts Animal Condition and Care (TACC) scales.

04/11/2023

So excited to be going to Deepak Chopra tonight! My sister here has already seen him at a retreat in Florida. Dogs live for the moment and are always present. We need to be present with them too.

04/09/2023

16/08/2023

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12/06/2023

This is so sad and could have been avoided. Someone mentioned pepper spray. Pepper spray is illegal under Fi****ms Act. If you spray the owner accidentally, you are accountable. Safer is a citronella dog deterrent that sprays up to 15 ft. from Amazon. A break stick to unlock jaws and an umbrella. Throw a blanket over the dog’s head. Wheelbarrow pull hind legs back with caution of a redirected bite back at you.

08/06/2023

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Working with holistic relaxation techniques and behavior modification to help Burton relax when he hears triggers around us. Dogs bark for many reasons and Burton now barks less and less at sounds that trigger him. This took lots of work as well as he having a fully enriched day with routine and predictability.

13/05/2023

Working with Burton on relaxing around various noises. Trigger sounds like cat meows, dogs barking, doorbell ringing and other trigger noises like coyote calls. Occasionally they howl at night and sets Burton growling as well. He
has the odd growls and barks from a scent he’s smelled or something he hears that I can’t or that flea that flew by (we don’t see what he’s barking at).

I also have him on a good schedule of enrichment, fresh air, training, scent games and a whole lotta love.

He used to bark and run back and forth in the house and to the door. I always called him away from windows and doors allowing 4 barks at the most and then he would return to his place.

He will now bark to tell us for a bathroom break and I know the bark and time for that as opposed to straight out alert barking.

This is all normal dog behavior but now I am teaching him another way to respond to these sounds. Just relax. He no longer has to be Sentry Dog. He is retired now!

12/05/2023

03/05/2023

This is an excellent article!

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