Indie & the Christmas Tree
My absolute favourite memory, Indie helping me unwrap the Christmas tree 💓💓
I literally love working with this kid 🌟
I love rocking up and saying, “Ready to do some work babe?” because this is girl is so up for it! 🥰 An adolescent dream 👏🏻🙌🏻 Mia works so hard for you and thrives on a trusting relationship with her handler. It is one of my personal and professional joys right now, the privilege of training this dog in tandem with her extraordinary committed owners 💕
✨LOOSE-LEAD & LONG LINING SKILLS- SPACES AVAILABLE✨
✨ Dog Training Classes with Cani Confiance at CaniParc 16 , Spring 2023!
Learning with positive reinforcement. Small groups, focusing on learning & teaching engagement skills and games, that make on-lead time more pleasurable for everyone!
Please read the details below about the course, and get in touch VIA EMAIL if you are interested in details about how to reserve your spot! 🥰
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Beginners/intermediate
Dogs aged: 10+ months.
Course Duration: 5 weeks.
Group size: 5 dogs max
Course Price: €100
Course Time: 11am- 12pm
Course Dates-
April
1)Sunday 16th
2) Sunday 30th
May
3) Sunday 7th
4) Sunday 21st
June
5) Sunday 4th
Course Content-
*positive reinforcement based learning and how this applies to ethically training our dogs
• Building the concept of moving into pressure for our dogs.
• Leash handling skills and equipment review/advice
• Loose-lead pattern games.
• Free-shaping
• Markers and treat delivery
• Positive proximity-why it’s fun to walk with us and not despite us!
• Respecting what a walk is for our dogs including breed traits and motivation.
• Engagement and disengagement games
• Parallel walking with other dogs
• The beneficial use of attention noises.
(Please note this course is not designed for training dogs with severe leash reactivity or dog aggression. If you are unsure please contact me to discuss, it may be that you require some 1-2-1 sessions before you can join a group activity.)
Thank you wonderful dog parents! 🦮🦮🦮
Super-short clip of the stunning pups Leo and Drummer who’s first day introductions went swimmingly 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Without a doubt, a standout moment with Miss Indie. 💜🎄💜Well and truly part of the family, helping us unwrap the Christmas tree! What a joker and a gentle soul. She has us in hysterics, not even with us for a full two weeks and what a turn around. The progress is clear to see, with just love and careful nourishment.
The truest sentiment I could say about this girl, those who don’t know her are missing out. Never judge a book by its cover, never dismiss another being as ‘not worth the effort’ or ‘past concern’ for whatever reason you cobble together. Open your heart, they are worth it ❤️🩹
We couldn’t be happier Indie came to live with us. My husband and I really feel as if she was meant for us, she fits so perfectly into our family.
It will always be one week at a time, but her Christmas is looking bright 💖✨💖 And for us, the pleasure of her company is thee most amazing Christmas present ✨🎄
#mastiffrescue #fosterdog #foreverfoster #goldenoldie #fostertales #rescuedogchristmas
Are you ready to think I’m the nuttiest trainer around!?🤣 Just for your viewing pleasure…not really😜
What I am actually doing-
This is Day 4 of a proofing exercise for the pups jumping up. This is also to help Millie who has a particularly high sensitivity to movement, she was a feet chaser/biter as a pup. And yes my fluffy-slippers make this extra challenging for her! You can observe in the video how much she watched my feet, but still manages to self-regulate and break away to make eye contact 👏🏻👏🏻
We have practiced this for at least 2 x 10 mins per day, with increased difficulty each day.
Day One- slow movement, stopped and waiting for the pups to correct themselves before marking and rewarding. Gentle pushing them off IF necessary whilst immediately rewarding the position I want them to be in (four on the floor!)
Day Two- Adding faster body and feet movements.
Day three- adding hand movement and voice.
Day four- well you can see we are now dancing with coffee!!
*Note 1- Yes there is still a high rate of reinforcement going on here, and there would be for sometime, as the pups jumping up was very habitual, for attention, when excited, when greeting people etc.
*Note 2- As both pups have prey and chase drive, along with simply excellent hearing, they really enjoy chasing the biscuits across the floor as an extra game-reward. The added noise of the ‘scitter’ across the tiles helps them chase and track it, an extra reinforcing boost!
When I do feed from my hands I do use ‘Zen Treat’ (also called ‘slow treat’) to help the pups with excited treat snatching. This also helps them learn self-regulating behaviour, even when they are in an excited state.
The pups still have a way to go, more so Millie. As the smaller of the two she also uses standing on her hind legs to ask for attention, understandable really! So we have working in a shoulder-lean (her crescent mooning into my ankles) instead, in tandem with this movement
Sound on to hear that beautiful dainty purrrrr… 🎀 #kittysitting #professionalpetsitter #coolcats #france
After walk snacks, Lola’s little happy dance is just delightful 🥰🥰🥰 I love it when dogs like veg as a snack! 🥒 🥒🥒 #goldenretriever #awesomedogs #professionaldogsitter #positivedogtrainer #france
Synchronised Rolling! Get ready to laugh 😂💓😂 Too adorable! #goldenretriever #awesomedogs #professionaldogsitter #positivetrainer #france
Part 2!
Hoopers training for Freddie was crashed by all the dogs tonight 😂 So the evening became a session of group play, socialisation, confidence building, positive proximity and cuddles! We trained send-aways round an object, toy retrievals and releases, eye contact, hand touches and leave-it with a good dollop of body handling including collar grabs mixed in throughout. But it just looks like play right?! And yes we are having fun, but it’s still all training! 😋
Clip# 5 Ava getting the hang of the send away round an object as well 🥳🥳 My clever girl 💓 Having his sister involved gets him a little over stimulated, so Freddie is quick to offer me the behaviour again which is lovely, but I need to slow him down so he can follow my hand signals….which still need work. Geezo lady, slow down! This is why I film myself training! 😵💫
Clip6# That’s better! Much slower and low and behold they almost both do the send away at the same time! 🤩🥰
Clip7# After our little session we cool down with ‘easy win’ games like ‘Touch’ which my guys know backwards and forwards. Plus a whole lot of love and cuddles, making sure my little old man gets heaps of attention as well.
Hoopers training for Freddie was crashed by all the dogs tonight 😂 So the evening became a session of group play, socialisation, confidence building, positive proximity and cuddles! We trained send-aways round an object, toy retrievals and releases, eye contact, hand touches and leave-it with a good dollop of body handling including collar grabs mixed in throughout. But it just looks like play right?! And yes we are having fun, but it’s still all training! 😋
Clip1# Absolutely delighted with Artemis’s choice to come and get involved 🙌🏻👏🏻 Proximity is always positively reinforced with enthusiastic praise and play! He offers a lovely sit but I am more excited about the confident eye contact offered 😍 I have to physically encourage him to come and run with us at the end, he is still learning about this kind of play, so adorable 🥰
Clip 2# Games for all stages and ages- my beautiful old boy Gus getting involved 💙 And for him this means a little tug with him getting to ‘win’ the toy, and plenty love and attention which is what he really wants💙💙
Meanwhile Freddie is really grasping the send away concept! I however need some work on my hand signal 😱🤦🏻♀️😂 More praise again for Artemis just being with us.
Clip3# Proof the praise and patient encouragement works! This is the first time Artemis has picked up a soft toy, and I caught it on camera! 😍😍 Oh my god how cute is he when he happily gallops by with it 😂😂 Ava is also into learning the send away, anything for a ball! 😜
Clip4# ‘Arms Wide’ recall 🥰 This is working so well in the garden with Artemis now 👏🏻 The progress on this has of course been helped by the fact that my own dogs respond to this physical cue so well, social learning at its finest 💓
Freddie letting Gus ‘win’ the toy, a behaviour we have conditioned and continue to positively reinforce, preventing squabbles or tension as Gus gets older.
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