Snude Til Hale Hundetræning

Snude Til Hale Hundetræning Hundetræning med en lege- og koncept baseret tilgang, der tager hele hunden i betragtning. Træning

Min filosofi og tilgang til hundetræning er, at vi igennem leg og træning styrker vores hundes mentale egenskaber og evner til at begå sig i menneskets verden på en velafbalanceret måde. Og det handler ikke om at lære specifik adfærd som sit, dæk og gå pænt, men at hele hunden bliver påvirket i vores hverdag og derfor skal vi tage hele hunden i betragtning i vores tilgang til træningen – alt fra s

nude til hale har indvirkning på, hvordan hunden agerer og trives i hverdagen – og den livsstil/hverdag vi byder vores hund.

24/04/2021

“Den skal lære at “gå pænt”..” Den sætning har de fleste hundeejere både tænkt og hørt fra andre - men hvad betyder “gå pænt”?
I min optik er det op til den enkelte ejer - men det er vigtigt, at man gør sig tanker om, hvilket billede, man gerne vil have. For det er svært at træne noget, der ikke er beskrevet/defineret - og i øvrigt at man som familie får defineret dette billede sammen, så alle, der lufter / går med hunden, arbejder med det samme billede.
Vi har nok alle set den der ejer og hund, hvor hunden går klinet til benet på ejeren uden snor og i øvrigt ikke værdiger andre et blik - men er det nødvendigvis det, vi vil have eller har brug for?

Når vi vil ændre det nuværende billede (fx en hund der trækker, så vi ligger vandret i luften efter den), så er vi også nødt til at ændre billedet for hunden og forhindre at den fortsætter med at praktisere det nuværende billede. Og ja, det kan betyde at hunden ikke kommer ud at gå tur i en måned, fordi det nye billede skal indøves hjemme i indkørslen, før den er klar til at gå 10m ned ad vejen og hjem igen på den nye måde!

For mig er “gå pænt” flere forskellige scenarier eller billeder om man vil, og nedenfor er 3 små film af nogle af dem.
1 - Gå “på plads” - her bruger jeg en sele med front clip - nogle kalder dem anti-træk seler, men hvis man bare sætter selen på og ellers ikke ændrer noget, så forhindrer den altså overhovedet ikke 40kg hund i at trække! Men det er et andet billede Aslan: når snoren sidder monteret både front og ryg, betyder det, at man går afslappet ved siden af mig.
2 - Længere snor uden front clip: Snoren skal være løs og kropssproget afslappet
3 - Flexline: Ja, jeg bruger den i skoven og på landet, men aldrig i by, og skifter til alm snor hvis vi møder nogen. I flexlinen er kodeordet også afslappet kropssprog og “løs” line (dvs ikke strukket ud i max). Man kan også brug en lang line evt med knuder på, hvis man har brug for mere kontrol - den mulighed har man ikke med flexlinen - den er der meget lidt kontrol i! Ihvertfald med større hunde.

Så for mig er “gå pænt” en afslappet og rolig hund uanset om han har 1, 2 eller 8m line at gøre godt med! Og når han ikke kan slappe af med længere line hjælper det ofte at skifte til den helt korte m dobbelt clip indtil hans spændingsniveau er faldet - og hjælper det ikke, så vender vi om og går hjem!

For et stykke tid siden delte jeg et opslag fra Behavet omkring kastraktion og adfærdsmæssige følger af dette.Her er det...
27/03/2021

For et stykke tid siden delte jeg et opslag fra Behavet omkring kastraktion og adfærdsmæssige følger af dette.
Her er det så tævernes hormoner og deres påvirkning på adfærd - absolut værd at læse hvis du har en intakt tæve.

Let’s talk about female hormones in dogs… It’s one of those subjects that you don’t often hear enough about. If you’ve ever owned a female dog, and she’s gone into heat/season, you may have watched her experience one, or more, of these following symptoms:

Fatigue
Nausea/Lack of Appetite
Increased alerting
Increased perception of value with food and toys
Moodiness and Reluctance to Work
Increased reactivity with other dogs
Little to no motivation

Believe it or not, every time a female dog goes into season, they go through the same hormonal cycle as if they were pregnant. That’s right?! Isn’t that crazy? EVERY. SINGLE TIME. When they go into heat, they go through a 9-week period (the typical gestation period for dogs) where they experience all of the same hormonal changes that would take place as if they were pregnant. High progesterone for 9 whole weeks! Progesterone is what is affecting their behaviour. It can increase reactivity, their desire for their food and toys, but they can also feel icky, sleepy, and disinterested. Sometimes, they go into full nesting mode!

Every season can differ slightly and you can make some accommodations to help them through this time. Just know that if your dog seems to have lost her appetite, provide her with resources that are long-term enrichment, bones, chews, and stuffed Kongs, etc. No need for her to be expected to gulp down food, when you know if you were experiencing similar symptoms, you wouldn’t want to either! If, however, she wants to eat, push on with training, keep moving forward just as you would! Maintain her motivation! Keep in mind how she’s feeling, and pay close attention to how long it has been since her season. Her overall physical wellness may be influenced by those high progesterone levels. Don’t push her for more training when she most likely would rather curl up and sleep. Read the dog in front of you!

It will be over before you know it and she’ll be back to her old self!

For some great game ideas to keep her optimism levels topped up, check out our free Optimism Rocks! eBook here: https://nbn.absolute-dogs.com/optimismrocksbook

Glædelig jul 🎅Husk at det ikke kun er os mennesker, der bliver julestressede - al virakken påvirker også vores hunde og ...
24/12/2020

Glædelig jul 🎅
Husk at det ikke kun er os mennesker, der bliver julestressede - al virakken påvirker også vores hunde og fylder deres “bæger”. Så husk at sørge for, at hundene får mulighed for fred og ro og hvile her i juledagene - så giver vi dem samtidig de bedste forudsætninger for at have overskud til at klare nytåret på bedst mulig vis.
Pas godt på jer selv og hinanden derude og I ønskes en rigtig glædelig jul for både 2 og 4 benede 🎅🎁🎅

Så er der både Hvalpehold og Life-skills hold planlagt til opstart i uge 1 2021. Begge er online hold m undervisning via...
16/12/2020

Så er der både Hvalpehold og Life-skills hold planlagt til opstart i uge 1 2021. Begge er online hold m undervisning via Zoom.
Træn hjemme i varmen uden risko for smitte, med optimale indlæringsbetingelser for din hund, samtidig med at du får instruktion og vejledning som på et "normalt" træningshold.

Hvalpehold tirsdage fra 17.00 -18.00 (8 uger til 6 mdr.)
Life-skills hold søndage fra 10.00 - 11.00 (6 mdr. og opefter)

Læs mere og tilmeld på www.snudetilhale.dk/online-traeningshold/

Hvalpetræning med opstart efter Nytår:Vi starter online træningshold for hvalpe i alderen 8 uger til 6mdr. Kom godt fra ...
14/12/2020

Hvalpetræning med opstart efter Nytår:
Vi starter online træningshold for hvalpe i alderen 8 uger til 6mdr. Kom godt fra start med din hvalp!

Hvalpehold begyndere 8 gange - Tirsdag 17.00 - 18.00:
Hold opstart tirsdag den 5/1-2021 - Slut tirsdag den 23/2-2021

Se mere under "hvalpe-træning" og tilmeld her:
https://www.snudetilhale.dk/online-traeningshold/

Online holdtræning Er Online træningshold noget for dig? Alle kan deltage online - det kræver ikke den store tekniske viden - bare en bærbar computer med we**am

13/12/2020

3. Søndag i advent - og lidt mere jule-sjov 🎅
Nu er Aslan ikke agilityhund - og bliver det heller aldrig, men derfor kan man godt bruge nogle basale øvelser såsom at gå rundt om et objekt. I dette tilfælde bliver det så en julebuk - en underlig ting, han ikke før har stiftet bekendtskab med andet end på afstand - koncepter i brug: optimisme, flexibilitet, selvtillid, fokus, og evne til løsrivelse.
Udførelsen ikke fejlfri, men i betragtning af, hvor forstyrrende sådan en julebuk kan være, så synes jeg han klarer det godt :-)

10/12/2020

Nu er der kun 14 dage til juleaften, så det er vist på tide at være lidt jule-inspireret i træningen. Bruger du julepynten i din hundetræning?
Bare det, at vi ændrer lidt på en kendt øvelse er med til at udvikle - skabe flexibilitet og flytte en adfærd fra én "situation" til en anden.
Nedenstående øvelse kender Aslan med en mindre kegle, men ikke den store og da slet ikke med nissehuen - læg mærke til, hvad der sker halv-vejs, hvor jeg fjerner keglen og fortsætter kun med huen :-) En enorm positiv oplevelse, når man tænker på, at dette var en hund, der bakkede gø'ende væk, hver gang han blev præsenteret for noget nyt!

Har du en hanhund - hvalp, unghund eller voksen for den sags skyld, så er dette vigtig læsning og indput til eventuelle ...
10/12/2020

Har du en hanhund - hvalp, unghund eller voksen for den sags skyld, så er dette vigtig læsning og indput til eventuelle overvejelser omkring kastraktion!

To Castrate or Not To Castrate!

For decades castration has been recommended routinely for young dogs as a cure for:
🐶 Barking, lunging and reactivity at dogs or people
🐶 Dog-dog interaction challenges
🐶 Hu***ng, inappropriate toileting
🐶 Adolescence (as if it needs curing like it’s a disease 😂)

Download my free book on this to keep forever here: beha.vet/free-neutering-ebook

⚠️WARNING!⚠️ What I’m about to discuss relates to castration and health and behaviour. This does NOT relate to overpopulation management. However, of note, in some countries, castration is considered a mutilation and these countries have less of an overpopulation issue than countries where it is routinely recommended, highlighting how intrinsic overpopulation is to societal beliefs around and respect for dogs.

👉 What actually happens when we castrate a dog?

Well, to put it bluntly, the testicles get chopped off. What does this lead to?
It completely removes the dog’s ability to reproduce.
It removes a major source of testosterone; the Leydig cells that produce testosterone reside within the testicles and so experience a extracorporeal relocation too! Important to note here that I say a major source as the adrenal glands in both sexes as well as the ovaries in the bitch produce small quantities also.

👉 What consequence does this have?

Importantly, testosterone is valuable as a hormone from a behaviour perspective. In multiple species, it has been demonstrated to be closely associated with confidence. Why is this protective against behaviour struggles? Well, behaviour struggles are often driven by lack of confidence, anxiety, fear and situational pessimism and certainly never the result of positive emotional states that testosterone would promote.

“There is absolutely no benefit to reducing an animal’s confidence when working on their behaviour. Confidence is never a bad thing!”

👉 What the SCIENCE Says!

In 2018, McGreevy et al published a study in Plos One (It’s open access so you can check it how here if you are feeling geeky: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931473/), assessing how the length of time a dog maintained their go**ds for influenced the risk of behaviour struggles.

👉 What did they find?

The shorter the time they keep their go**ds and, in turn, the sooner they lose most of their testosterone, the less likely the dogs’ owners were to report two behaviour struggles - howling when left alone and indoor urine marking.

Oh! Easy! Question Answered! To theatre we go….

Wait for it.

The findings didn’t end there. The longer the dogs in the study (sample size of 6235) kept their go**ds attached and, in turn, their testosterone, the less likely their owners were to report 26 (Yes, TWENTY SIX!) mostly unwelcome behaviour struggles!!

AND

7 (yes, SEVEN!) of these behaviour struggles that were much less likely the longer a dog remained entire would be labelled as “aggressive” (including “aggression” directed towards people and other dogs).

So let’s dive into the reasons why castration is often wrongly considered and wrongly recommended…

😱Barking, lunging and reactivity! This behaviour struggle is often driven by an underlying pessimism, dogs perceiving novelty in the environment (whether that be a human, another dog, a cat or a kangaroo!) to be something to worry about. Pessimism and lack of confidence are closely linked and so it is no surprise that castration doesn’t help this situation and often makes it worse as the McGreevy findings suggest!

Download my free book on this to keep forever here: beha.vet/free-neutering-ebook

😱Dog-Dog interaction challenges! This refers to unpredictability in a dog’s interaction with another dog. It might be that your dog unpredictably snaps when having a nose-nose interaction. It might be that your dog stands over another dog and raises their hackles. It might be that your dog charges and barks at other dogs upon the approach. The thing is, a successful interaction can only occur with three skills: 1. Optimism, 2. Disengagement (seeing value in moving away from the interaction), 3. Calmness. Any weakness in these will lead to unpredictable (or very predictable!!) breaks in the chain. I’m sure we can all relate to a time in our lives where we’ve had a fail in one of these departments and had a bad interaction with someone (maybe a partner….) - it didn’t come from overconfidence, it came from all the rubbish that went on at the office that day and your sore back!

Now I have a saying when it comes to dog behaviour and that is -

“If you want more of something, BUILD IT! Don’t attempt to squash something else to make it seem bigger!”

Success in’t about trying to correct, inhibit or STOP a behaviour. This is about growing the skills needed to behave effectively and go through the world feeling great! So again, castration has absolutely no place here and again often makes things worse!

😱 Hu***ng and Inappropriate Toileting! These behaviours were long hailed as the ultimate in dogs disrespecting us and, therefore, by some twisted logic, if an animal is disrespecting you, you must chop off a body part, reduce their confidence, show them who is boss. Crazy right?! 😂 Of course not - in fact, these behaviours (just like the ones above) are just a couple of behaviours a dog might select from when feeling worried, anxious, scared or a little bit like “I don’t know what to do here.”

Have you ever had an interaction with another human where you were nervous for whatever reason and you said something crazy or did something completely weird instead of just shaking their hand? Meet the canine equivalent: hu***ng!

Again this is driven by LACK of confidence, not overconfidence and so castration won’t make it better and might again make it worse! Inappropriate toileting and marking behaviours can be much the same, and so while research shows that castration might improve marking in the house in some instances, it can equally make it worse based on this and so, importantly, we should never do something irreversible when reversible (non-body-part-chopping) options exist.

😱 Adolescence! Adolescence is not a disease! In fact, none of this is a disease!

“These are not BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS! They’re DOG BEHAVIOUR!”

Adolescence is a period of development! It’s associated with structural brain, cognitive and hormonal changes. It’s a period that actively promotes conflict between the animal (human or canine) and their carer as an evolutionarily beneficial temperature check on the relationship (more on that another time maybe). What all the research agrees on in relation to human and canine adolescence is that confidence and relationship are key! The Asher et al 2020 study on canine adolescence found that conflict (in the form of ignoring a sit cue) was much reduced with increasing relationship between dog and owner. What do we take from this?
Chopping off body parts will not help.
Spend the time and money you were going to spend on castrating your dog and invest it in your relationship bank account instead - invest in positive interactions, games, play, whatever you and your dog love!

Download my free book on this to keep forever here: beha.vet/free-neutering-ebook

🩺👨🏼‍⚕️ Health Benefits of Castration

Castration has also been recommended from a health standpoint, reducing the risk of a variety of diseases. However, the health benefits castration brings (such as prevention (and resolution of) benign prostatic hyperplasia) are only of significance after the age of 5 in most dogs when they become at increased risk of such. Equally, there’s early evidence to show that castration before one year of age could increase the risk of joint disease, cancer risk and allergic skin disease, further reinforcing the idea that early castration (if even at all) is not nor should not be a procedure that comes with a blanket recommendation for all young dogs.

Reversible Options!

Finally, we must consider if it is appropriate to give a blanket recommendation on anything that is irreversible and not completely benign when reversible options are available. Short-term implants have the same whole body effects as surgical removal of the testicles while still being reversible! These can act like a test drive of the new hormonal system where castration is being strongly considered without the fallout of an irreversible procedure.

👉 The Future!

So, that’s the wrap on castration with a focus on behaviour and training! Whenever I talk about this, it often causes of a wave of remorse and grieving for the now lost testicles of your dog’s youth. BUT I work with people on a daily basis whose dogs have had their go**ds inappropriately removed at some point and yet they are achieving amazing results and living the lives that they dreamt of when they got a dog in the first place.

The first step they took was ditching the labels, the limiting beliefs and the story of how they arrived where they did. The second step they took is they took their dog-owning dream off the back burner and they made it a MUST.

The reality is that castrated or not, you can unlock real-life results and amazing transformations with your dog with the right plan, the right tools, the right games and strategies! I even wrote a book on it you can download for free here: beha.vet/free-neutering-ebook

This is an opportunity to spread the word, save some go**ds along the way and change the blanket advice for the better, so if you know someone who this might benefit, please share it far and wide :-)

05/12/2020
The GEEK is in the House... 😱 Så er adfærds-nørde delen også bestået - og Wow siger jeg bare, det har været den vildeste...
28/11/2020

The GEEK is in the House... 😱 Så er adfærds-nørde delen også bestået - og Wow siger jeg bare, det har været den vildeste læring! Glæder mig så meget til at bruge min viden til at hjælpe andre!

26/11/2020

Serverer du maden i en skål eller bruger du den til at opbygge din hund og jeres forhold?
Morgenmaden serveres her for Aslan 🐶 Boost af Optimisme og selvtillid, lydtræning og 🧠 gymnastik på én gang 🌟

Vi kender vist alle udtrykket “Man kan ikke lære en gammel hund nye tricks” - men er det nu rigtigt? Eller er det bare e...
21/11/2020

Vi kender vist alle udtrykket “Man kan ikke lære en gammel hund nye tricks” - men er det nu rigtigt? Eller er det bare et udtryk for at vi holder op med at prøve? Og det gælder sådan set både for mennesker og hunde!
Desværre er den opfattelse ret udbredt, men den ældre hund vil også have stor gavn af læring og mental udfordring - det er med til at holde hjernen igang og har en væsentlig positiv indvirkning på hundens livskvalitet!
Så selvom alderen kan sætte visse fysiske begrænsninger så kan det stadig lade sig gøre at indlære nyt!
Så det er bare med at få gamle Sofus op af kurven og igang med at lege!

17/11/2020

Det er skræmmende så lidt af det rigtige, der i nogle gange skal til, for at gøre en forskel ♥️

Hvad er flexibilitet når vi taler hunde? Og mere specifikt mental flexibiltet? Det er evnen til at gøre noget forskellig...
08/11/2020

Hvad er flexibilitet når vi taler hunde? Og mere specifikt mental flexibiltet? Det er evnen til at gøre noget forskelligt i ens-lignende situationer - at være i stand til at foretage et andet valg. Eller at gøre den samme ting i forskellige situationer. Fleksibilitet er grundstenen i arbejdet med at ændre adfærd - for er hunden ikke mentalt fleksibel er den faktisk ikke i stand til at ændre den måde den reagerer/agerer på. Så det kan være nødvendigt at starte der, hvis man vil opnå resultater.
Idag viste Aslan mig et eksempel på, at han efterhånden er blevet utrolig fleksibel - vi var igang med nogle øvelse i kropskontrol, hvor han så vælger i stedet at udføre øvelsen “2 poter på” på en cavaletti-stang 😱 Hans evne til at udføre samme øvelse = adfærd i forskellige situationer og med forskellige genstande er tydeligvis blevet ret veludviklet nu!
Beklager ringe billedkvalitet - er taget fra video

Er der noget skønnere end en tur i efterårs-skoven med hunden?
31/10/2020

Er der noget skønnere end en tur i efterårs-skoven med hunden?

31/10/2020

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