🐾❤️🔥 CaniParc16 ❤️🔥🐾 Please don’t worry wonderful CaniParc friends! I might be extending my services, but I will 💯% still be working alongside Roni and her fantastic team, and continuing to offer my training 1-2-1 services and group classes at CaniParc16! Group classes are being lined up for starting again in March 🤩 Announcements for which will be released soon and include the usual suspects! 🐾’Forest School’ Puppy Foundations & Socialisation 🐾 ‘Sapling School’ for pre-teens 🐾 ‘Teen Spirit’ for fully fledged adolescents 🐾 Loose-Lead & Long-Lining skills! 🐾 I will also be releasing details of spaces available on my new class ‘Gradual Exposure’, helping owners develops the practical skills to in turn help their reactive dogs, novelty seeking dogs or dogs struggling with environmental distractions! 🐾 I would LOVE to bring back the ‘Senior Sniffaries’ this year as well! 🐾 Last but not least, I have had a ‘Total Recall’ class brewing in my plans for a long time. This is the year, oh yes! 🙌🏻 Heaps going on for 2025 at CaniParc 16 and as always, I am so grateful and privileged to be part of such a fantastic doggie-obsessed community led by such the force of nature that is Roni 🙌🏻 Here’s to 2025 🍾 #caniparc16 #dogpark #securedogfield #DogCommunity #positivereinforcementtraining #positivevibes #positivereinforcementdogtrainer #france
Taking the opportunity to show a ‘Roll-Call Game’ with the group this morning. We have been working on this together, this being our fifth day with Louis joining us. Of course my dogs Freddie and Ava are dab-hands at this game. Moka has been working on it since he arrived at the beginning of the year from the shelter and is improving all the time. Considering his distraction levels on walks when he first came to us he is doing great💓We just played this game with some 20 kids on bikes passing us at about 8 meters away! All the dogs acknowledged the bikes, but continued with the game 🤩 Never underestimate the POWER of a good PATTERN GAME ❤️🔥 **NOTE- As always an assessment is done to establish that no one resources guards treats on the ground before this game is introduced.** #positiverienforcementtraining #positivedogtrainingmethods #positivereinforcementdogtraining #positivereinforcementtrainer #awesomedogs #caniconfiance24 #france #dordogne
Loose-Lead Legends!
Loose-lead walking anyone? Email me about my upcoming course in November![email protected] #positiverienforcementtraining #positivedogtrainingmethods #positivereinforcementdogtraining #positivereinforcementtrainer #awesomedogs #caniconfiance24 #france #dordogne
There are many things we can teach to help our dogs feel more comfortable at the vets office, making the environment itself a cue for certain practiced behaviours that result in even more predictable positive rewards for our dogs. Targeting the scale is one I always teach as your almost always guaranteed that 1) there will be free access to a scale in the waiting room allowing you to ‘play the game’ instead of asking for merely static positions from your dog whilst you wait to be called 2) your most likely going to need your dogs weigh for any medication anyway! There are a great many ways to teach this behaviour depending on your dogs confidence, age and skill levels. Starting with a conditioned marker is a good prerequisite to this training, as is making sure your dog is comfortable eating in different environments and also that they are happy with the surface your asking them to step onto. You don’t need a vets office to start this training either! Foundations can as always be started at home (in fact the the wisest place to start!) and transferred to the vets when you feel ready. Sam has been with us four months, he is 13 years old and is smashing this as you can see 👊🏻 But remember, move at your dogs own pace!
Buggy intro training
So Gus my eldest is a pretty easy going boy with regards to novelty, whether a that’s objects, places or people. But…
Regardless of whether we are lucky enough to have predictably unfazed dogs or not, we still have to think about how we introduce things (such as riding in a buggy), making sure that we are not sensitising them to the experience, causing anxiety or worse a fear. Instead look to carefully create a positive association to the activity or ‘thing’.
Technically because of our relationship, and how well I know Gus, I could just shove him in his new transportation and off we go! However when static he may have no concerns at all, but the rocking and bumpiness of the ride could make him uneasy! As could the fact that for safety, he can’t just jump in and out as he pleases. In addition, it’s not just Gus who has to get used to this new thingymabob! It is also important that the other dogs are not frightened by the presence of the buggy. In fact if I want us to all take walks together, it would be even more beneficial for the others to see the buggy as an awesome place to stay close to! By thinking about all these components and being pro-active with our training we can avoid oh-so many issues!
So with all of these goals in mind where do I start? Well, slow and simply as always!
Set-up: Starting in a safe secure environment with minimal distractions, and where the others can be off-lead for now allowing them to choose the distance they are comfortable at from the buggy.
Method- a couple of steps, mark and reinforce (praise him up!). A couple of steps, mark and reinforce (praise him up!) Mark and reinforce the others choosing to stay close (playing the ‘roll-call’ and ‘treat-toss game). Paying attention to body language and if Gus looks unsure or starts to wiggle around I stop and give him time to settle. After only a couple of minutes, I praise him and give him the hand signal for “do you want lifted up/out?” (*note this has been
