I first saw this lovely timid girl outside a vets where she was so stressed by staff and owners (under instructions from the vet staff) trying to put a muzzle on her. A bit of coincidence the owner messaged me to help with lead walking, which I did a few weeks ago, which is going well. I was asked about muzzle training as she is not keen on wearing one especially after her ordeal. We played hand touch, then transferred this to touching the muzzle. Then dropping treats into muzzle and so on. Finally introducing the cue muzzle on cue. A much more confident dog without any force. A very happy owner and a great session.
This is young Bonnie 17w old having her first off lead walking after attending puppy class a few weeks ago. Lovely bond between owner and Bonnie where she wants to be next to her owner. All done positively and with no cues, calling etc allowing Bonnie to decide what to do, even when she came to me she soon returned. Looking forward to adding more distractions to her training.
Another example of how these dogs enjoy Mantrailing, he is using his nose to find the trail layers. He gets very excited when he finds the trail layers.
Look at him go
A great video of how these dogs love Mantrailing. He is off like a rocket stopping to check our decoy before finding the trailer by using just his nose. Plus a very impressed owner.
Saturday puppy class having some ball fun, teaching the young dogs Impulse control. Great session
Evening Mantrailing Progression.
What a great puppy class on Saturday working on recall past distractions, whilst the distractions were practicing their impulse control and not chasing the moving distractions.
How great for these young dogs to be this relaxed.
Well done to everyone
Saturday class, having some fun with hand signal cues only. This throws the owners as they always want to talk. Look how chilled dogs and owners are. Lovely session
What a massive step forward with this young lad. A few weeks ago he wouldn't get out the back of the car and barked and backed away from me. With some work at home and looking at the interaction differently, we were able to have a walk with my Luna and Lola taking it all in his stride.
These two boys were having issues being around each other. We have under taken interaction works prior to today, getting them used to being near each other and for the owners to relax. The boys are allowed to look at each other and they then refocus on their owner. It takes time and not an overnight fix. The owners have put a lot of work in .
Had another session with Arlo. He was reacting to the Neighbour and lawnmower. After some training he was ignoring the neighbour and lawnmower.