The Ruff Life Professional Dog Training

19/01/2025

ℕ𝔼𝕎 𝔾ℝ𝕆𝕌ℙ𝕊 ℍ𝔸ℙℙ𝔼ℕ𝕀ℕ𝔾 𝔸𝕋 𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℝ𝕌𝔽𝔽 𝕃𝕀𝔽𝔼:
(We even added a DAY TIME Group!)

To sign up for any of these groups, please visit our website by clicking the "🅲0🅽🆃a🅲🆃 🆄🆂" button at the top of this page. MORE TO BE ADDED SOON!

19/01/2025

15/01/2025

This is one of the best posts I have seen in a while, and I had to share it with you all. We talk about this a LOT in our classes! Thanks so much to The Good Dog Training And Rehabilitation for explaining this so perfectly!

For all those owners who allow their dogs to meet people and other dogs when they’re out and about and don’t know why their dogs go bananas when they see a person or dog, I hope this helps.

Dogs are amazing pattern readers, and easily become conditioned that something occurring predicts another thing occurring if it happens often enough. It’s why picking up your car keys, or walking towards the cupboard where their food is, or picking up their leash, or packing your suitcase, or answering the door after the doorbell goes off — causes an intense reaction.

It could be excitement, it could be anxiety, it could be sadness, it could be anything depending on what the “signal” predicts, and how your dog feels about it.

Same goes for your dog who is allowed to meet random people and dogs — and who takes great pleasure in it. If this sequence occurs often enough, it will begin to condition your dog to view people as a visual signal that predicts a party/arousal/intense emotional escalation.

You end up turning people and dogs into “doorbells”.

This is why you’ll hear almost all experienced trainers not engaging in this activity. (Of course there’s other considerations like creating negative outcomes from these interactions, but that’s a post for another day.) Most trainers, and astute owners are keenly aware that if this meet and greet activity is practiced enough, you’re going to have a dog who is struggling to hold it together when they see people and dogs — because you’ve conditioned your dog that the appearance of people or dogs predicts craziness.

Of course there are exceptions. (There are always exceptions.) There are chilled out, lowkey dogs who enjoy these interactions but who don’t lose it. And there are owners who only do this on rare occasions — and so the reactions are far less intense. But if you do this on the regular, and you have a dog who loses its sh*t when it occurs, you’re almost certainly setting you and your dog up for a lifetime of overly-aroused, reactive nuttiness when people and dogs come into the picture.

And if you don’t enjoy the behavior this creates in your dog, then I’d highly advise you change your approach, or at the very least, minimize it greatly. A doorbell that only predicts someone at the door 5-10% of the time is a far less insanity-inducing doorbell, so perhaps you can adjust your dog’s predictive powers by making things far less predictable. :)

14/01/2025

ℕ𝔼𝕎 𝔾ℝ𝕆𝕌ℙ𝕊 ℍ𝔸ℙℙ𝔼ℕ𝕀ℕ𝔾 𝔸𝕋 𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℝ𝕌𝔽𝔽 𝕃𝕀𝔽𝔼:

✨WEDNESDAY EVENING GROUP✨
(From 6pm-7:30pm)
❇️January. 22nd
❇️January. 29th
❇️February. 5th
❇️February. 12th
❇️February. 19th

🌙THURSDAY EVENING GROUP🌙
(From 6pm-7:30pm)
❇️February. 20th
SKIP ONE WEEK
❇️March. 6th
❇️March. 13th
❇️March. 20th
❇️March. 27th

To sign up for any of these groups, please visit our website by clicking the "🅲0🅽🆃a🅲🆃 🆄🆂" button at the top of this page. MORE TO BE ADDED SOON!

29/12/2024

ℕ𝔼𝕎 𝔾ℝ𝕆𝕌ℙ𝕊 𝔸ℕ𝔻 𝔻ℝ𝕆ℙ-𝕀ℕ 𝕊𝔼𝕊𝕊𝕀𝕆ℕ𝕊 ℍ𝔸ℙℙ𝔼ℕ𝕀ℕ𝔾 𝔸𝕋 𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℝ𝕌𝔽𝔽 𝕃𝕀𝔽𝔼:

❇️ Mon. Jan. 6th @ Noon- Urban Adventure @ Polson Drop-in
❇️ Thurs. Jan. 9th @ 6pm- NEW THURSDAY NIGHT GROUP- First group of 2025!!!
❇️ Sat. Jan. 11th @ 2pm- Sip N' Social Dawg Party Drop-in
❇️ Wed. Jan. 15th @ 6pm- Urban Adventure Downtown Drop-in
❇️ Wed. Jan. 22nd - NEW WEDNESDAY NIGHT GROUP

To sign up for any of these groups, please visit our website by clicking the "🅲0🅽🆃a🅲🆃 🆄🆂" button at the top of this page. MORE TO BE ADDED SOON!

29/12/2024

❄️72 HOUR SPECIAL ~ $45 OF SAVINGS!!❄️

Buy a group training package (Beginner to Intermediate) by Tuesday, December. 31st at 8:30 pm and receive $25 OFF & NO Tax!!! (That is a $45 Savings!)

😍Normal cost: $400+tax ($420), Special Price for 72 hours only: $375

**Payment must be made by cash or email $ transfer (online banking). Does not apply to Credit Card/PayPal payments**

‼️This Special can be used for posted groups or future groups.‼️

Groups include five 1.5-hour sessions, a 20ft long leash, access to our online training, and access to our drop-in sessions for the life of your dog once you’ve completed the group classes.

24/12/2024

For this holiday season... Monique & The Ruff Life Staff would like to wish you a Very Merry Christmas ...🎄🎁❤🦮

We look forward to working with our clients past, present and future in 2025!!

18/12/2024

15/12/2024

🎄𝕀𝕥'𝕤 𝕠𝕗𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕪 10 𝕕𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕝 ℂ𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕤!!! 🎄

We offer Gift Certificates in any denomination over $20!!!
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