Some of the stuff we are working on….
What I love most is how focused she always is and how much attention she pays to me (because I’m so much fun clearly 😂).
When you have a dog that pays this much attention to you, things like recall and loose lead walking are sooo much easier. It’s ALL about relationship 🥰
Love working with dogs 😂
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Recall is probably THE MOST important behaviour to teach your dog.
*it allows them freedom, which means it’s easier to meet their biological needs - meaning you get less “problem” behaviours.
*it keeps them safe
*it prevents unwanted behaviour such as running over to other dogs
Here we are practising recall from chasing another dog.
Betty is 6 months now. We practice recall EVERY single day on EVERY single walk and have worked super hard at this over the last 4 months.
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Today she found a bone 🧐. I didn’t want her to have this - this is how I got it off her. No confrontation, no argument, no damage to our relationship, no development of resource guarding ✅
When your dog gets hold of something they “shouldn’t”…..
Choose your battles wisely 🧐. Do I really want her eating anything off the floor I didn’t put there? Not really, but an apple core isn’t going to hurt her. Too many owners try to get anything and everything off their dogs. This teaches the dog that what they have is obviously important and makes them want to keep it more, often resulting in resource guarding or “keep away” from my owner chase games. If it’s something I can’t bear her having I start playing a “chase the treat” game and she usually just drops the item and forgets about it.
P.s I frequently get irritated because people put food out - I assume for the birds or foxes. If you do this, just be clear it’s the dogs (or rats) that invariably get it!!! 😡
I’m super proud of how well our heel work is coming on. This is not a “simple” behaviour and requires LOTS of hard work. Spanners in particular can find it tricky because they are soooo busy 🥰👏
Impromptu little loose lead walking training session in Aldi car park 😂. I’d been for some shopping and used the opportunity to do a couple of minutes in a different environment with different distractions. This is called generalising and we need to do this so that our dogs REALLY understand what we expect of them. The more we generalise behaviour in this way, the more our dogs understand that we expect them to do the same thing no matter where we are or no matter what’s going on. This literally took me 2 minutes! #noexcuses #puppytraining
Where have you been training today?
What we’re working on today:
Return to heelwork position
Through
Spin at side
Release cue
Teaching her inadvertently that good thinks happen when you are close to me 😁
Is your dog nervous of things that seem “silly” or unnecessary? This can lead to being nervous of things in general out and about. We can easily build resilience and confidence in our dogs, especially when they are puppies.
Betty got a fright when she knocked this crate base over. I took the opportunity to teach her it was nothing to worry about, just because it moved in a strange way. Putting treats on there encourages her to be brave (but doesn’t force her to - if it’s too scary she can leave them). Although you can see she’s a bit jumpy, she’s brave enough to keep going back for more.
Note: I probably shouldn’t have thrown the treats on - she jumped when they hit her and this wouldn’t have been great for a nervous dog, luckily she’s a badass 😆
What’s Betty doing? …making a mess 😂🤷♀️
BUT more importantly what she’s NOT doing is chewing the rug/skirting/jumping up the surfaces while I’m trying to cook/getting up to general mischief that I don’t want her to do. Giving me a few quiet minutes to do some meal prep while she entertains herself and builds confidence 😁
Our very 1st heel work session at 11 1/2 weeks old! Should have got a big dog - I’m going to have a bad back 😂.
Heelwork/loose lead walking - 2 very different things and what I think most owners give up on because they are both hard work, not easy and require hundreds and hundreds of repetitions, especially when pulling on lead gets rewarded so frequently (they get where they want to go faster/eat something/greet someone or another dog/pee on the lamppost etc etc).
I’ll be sharing out progress as we go 😁
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P.s the blue glove is because I’m using her raw food for training
Little bit of name training out and about on our hols - one of the most important things to teach your dog. HINT: most dogs that don’t respond to their name have rubbish recall!
Nala says her name is Betty too 😂 in fact she says I can call her anything if she gets a snack 🧐
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