Original without music and a much better picture!! 🐾🐕🫶
arrived early for training classes this morning, so I decided to make the most out of the sunshine 🌞 and do some training with Olive.
It's not until I looked back on this video, that I realised what a clever little lady our Olive is.
Everything that I ask of her, she always delivers with enthusiasm and a addictive happy personality 💗
Lots of different obedience commands are used in this short clip and it reminded me of the conversation i have with my clients when talking about dog training🐾
- Learn the basic obedience commands (the foundation behaviours), proof them in lots of different environments, and watch them strengthen in your dogs training. Not only will it help you develop a stronger bond and relationship with your dog, it will help to give your dog more confidence 🫶
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Bear's owners needed some help 🙏 with
Bear's recall, so booked a 121 lesson with me
@kates.k9training 🐾
We had his first lesson🐕 last week and
started off with learning all the foundation
behaviours that Bear needs to know and
understand before we can start to help him
with his recall -
🐾 Reflex to name- Bear
🐾 Recall cue conditioning- using the whistle
🐾 Marker word conditioning- Yes
🐾 Eye contact -"watch me"
🐾 working on your bond and relationship with your dog
We also spoke about the Predatory Motor Pattern Sequence, which with any dog is extremely important. Your understanding of your dogs likes and dislikes in this particular area really helps when training the recall cue in particular.
It is very important to have outlets for their Predatory Motor Sequence driver. Breed disposition plays a part in this, but also it is important to treat every dog on a individual basis 🫶
I will be back visiting Bear to see how he has
been getting on with his training soon 🫶
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Mabel is a 6 month old Labrador.
Full of energy and a delight to be training.
She is like a sponge and soaks up all the training i do with her 💓.
Working on a blank canvas is so much fun and getting your puppy to be walking nicely on a lead takes time.
Be patient 🙏
Rome wasn't built in a day 🫶, so take training slowly and shape the behaviour you would like your dog to learn 🐕.
Here I am shaping loose lead walking with Mable, its a little bit messy in some parts but that doesn't matter, we can sort out the jumping up by changing our reward placement, and offering it on the floor instead of out of our hand ✋️
The most important behaviours of Loose Lead walking I am looking at shaping and positively rewarding are-
🐾 Eye contact- checking in and re-engagement of eye contact
🐾 Reflex to name
🐾 Creating a hotspot area- rewarding your dog when they are in it
🐾 Loose lead- no pulling or tight lead
🐾 Correct handling of lead and reinforcer
🐾 Happy dog enjoying learning 😁
Well done Mable, a delightful way to spend my Thursday morning training you 🐕🫶
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To really prepare your dog for going out in public, it's best to train in a variety of places and also get your dog used to going out in lots of different environments.
Socialisation, or the process of exposing a dog to new people, animal and places, results in a more confident and relaxed animal who can enjoy discovering new things. It can also help prevent or minimize behaviours caused by fear of the unknown.
Rosie 🐾 has been having 121 training lessons with me, and today was our last lesson.
Finishing on a high and finally putting all the pieces of the puzzle together with her training, she came out with a marvellous result. 👌
Previously, Rosie pulled like a steam train and choked herself half to death, pulling on her lead when out on walks. Her owners had tried to stop this but never found anything that worked. 🐕
Today was a different ending, with giving owners the tools to work with so they can go away and keep training their dog, which is a huge benefit to my training lessons.
Well done Rosie and Laura 🙌
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#dogtraining
Hand Touch has lots of potentially great benefits that aren't offered by other dog exercises.
🐾 Builds a positive association with human hands
🐾Encourages 'four feet on the floor' when greeting people
🐾 Maintains a still position to you during handling exercises such as grooming or a health treatment at Vets
Funk up the Nose Touch -
🐾 adding duration to the touch or
🐾 ask for it between your legs, down low up high
🐾 throw the treat to the side of you, and when the dog comes back, ask for Nose Touch and throw treat out the other side and repeat 👍
This is the lovely Winnie learning the "Hand Touch" in Basic classes today.
Hand Touch is hugely beneficial, it builds up a positive relationship with your hands to the dog and also can be a really helpful command when teaching your dog to heal.
I also use it when I am waiting in a que with Olive and it helps her concentrate on me and avoids her being a social butterfly when i dont want her to be 🦋
As I limit my class numbers it enables me to help owners train their dogs correctly and spend time with them 1 on 1 if needed in a class environment.
That way, owners go home learning the correct training techniques with their dogs.
It a pleasure working with these lot even though the weather was miserable today.
We also learnt Stage 1 of the "Emergency Stop", which was perfectly demonstrated in class today, everyone was awesome 👌
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Tuesday evening Puppy classes practised Puppy Pyramids this week, conditioning the recall cue, increasing distance from dog to handler with added distractions 😉🐾👏👏
The difference is remarkable, from our first meeting to our latest lesson, Kiki's loose lead walking has transformed her, not only on her lead walking but also her confidence. Now Kiki looks up to her owner for guidance, and relies on them to determine where they go and what they do. Where as previously Kiki would pull them everywhere and dictate where they went on walks.
This switch is a positive attribute to loose lead walking and Kiki s quality of life as a whole, also helping with her anxiety and her confidence 🐾😁
Again a lovely 121 lesson with Brody and his owner yesterday 🐾
Brody's owner was struggling with Brody pulling her whilst out on walks, she had changed from a collar to a harness but still wasn't having any luck, so asked me for a 121 training lesson , particularly concentrating on Loose lead walking.
Again I forgot to video the before, but here is the after video.
We had spent time learning the loose lead position and what to expect from your dog.
We spoke about eye contact, clarity, importance of timings , position of the dog, lead positions, hand positions, luring and when to help guide them back with a positive reinforcement.
Difference is amazing and i am so pleased with how well she coped with guiding Brody into a loose lead walking position.
There were lots of things to remember and putting it all together is a hard ask for any owner.
Work in progress Still to do, but thats for later, now is the time to enjoy walking your dog.
Brody was knackered and just wanted to go home and sleep it off 😄🤣
121 training lesson with the lovely Effie and her equally as lovely owners Lewis and Amelia yesterday.
Effie pulled her owners on walks, so much so that Amelia didnt want to take her out on walks anymore and her confidence in walking Effie as a result of it, was fading away.
They didn't feel in control and Effie was as a result "checking out" and not paying her owners any attention at all, particularly on walks.
So after a lengthy discussion, explaining in detail what was going on and setting Effie and her owners up for success, we headed out for some loose lead walking.
The results speak for themselves, unfortunately I didn't get a before video, but the difference is amazing.
It's not perfect, but we are in the real world and as far as I am concerned walks will be enjoyable again and thats what matters most.
I love the way Effie is looking at her owner for guidance and interacting with him.
In time we can do some closer work but for now it's a start.
Amelia and Lewis had huge smiles on their faces and Effie was equally as happy having some positive guidance from her owners.
Walking their dog with confidence and the aura of happiness was definitely easy to feel and see 😃
Working in progress, but on the right track.
Super well done Effie, Lewis and Amelia
Thursday morning classes whilst the sun shone 😎🐾
Thoroughly enjoyed my 121 private lesson with Bumble and her owner this afternoon 😁
Bumbles owner contacted me for help with Bumble and getting her walking better on the lead and all round obedience commands.
They were a bit lost and Bumble just wasn't listening to her owners, mainly because what they were asking Bumble to do was not clear enough for her to understand, especially out on walks and this was having a knock on effect and walks just weren't an enjoyable experience.
So today we worked on holding Bumble accountable for the obedience commands that we were asking of her and making sure they were being delivered properly, so Bumble understood their commands.
We checked and proofed these commands in a low distraction environment first before we ventured outside.
Firstly getting her attention with a "watch me" command, using a marker word to make sure Bumble understood that she had done the right thing "yes" and a food reward was coming to her.
Asking the cue for a command , again after she had carried out that given command we marked it with a "yes" marker word, and then rewarded with plenty of positive reinforcement 😁
After realising that she was not getting away with ignoring her owners and that they were holding her accountable for every command they asked of her, Bumble started to listen to them more attentively 😎😁 and hey presto being more interested in working with and listening to her owners.
The heel work slipped more into place and by the end of the session, we had a totally different dog and a much better relationship forming with her owners.
The trust that will start to develop between owner and dog will strengthen and Bumbles owners will help guide her through life as she will look to them more for guidance .
Helping to alleviate any issues that could develop if the dog was to not understand obedience commands that are they to help her.
Well done Bumble and Melissa, very proud of you both ❤️
Teaching Bumble to heel on and off lead, (when previously she pulled like a steam train), so she could be walked by her best friend.
Felt very privileged to help my client with Bumble the Lab. Something very special about this and a bond that can't ever be replaced ✨️ ❤️
