Great work by the dogs tonight practising the 1,2,3 walking game around distractions 🙌
Crazy…but true.
Training is 1 piece of the puzzle.
Examples of other things to think about are:
Sleep and rest
Diet
Health
Genetics
Life history
Age
Mental stimulation - training is part of this
Physical exercise
Breed needs
Emotions and mood - of you and them
Connection with you
Connection with other animals
Training is important and beneficial, along with all the other things 🐾
This is why 1:1 training can sometimes be more beneficial than group training as it looks at this specific to YOUR dog. However I always try to touch on this in my group classes too as it’s so important 😊
“Find It” Is so versatile to teach your dog.
It calms your dog down.
Start off training at home and after some practice and gradually introducing distractions your dog will know that the words “find it” mean that he will get his nose to the ground to search for food, instead of barking, pulling, jumping.
Examples of where it could be useful:
🐾 When pulling on the lead and you want him to calm down.
🐾When you want to have a chat to someone on a walk but your dog has other ideas.
🐾 When visitors come to the house
🐾Instead of running towards dogs.
🐾Instead of jumping towards a person.
Happy practicing 😊🐶
🐾 ‘Find it’ 🐾
One of the first things we do on the Pawsome Walkers class is a ‘find it’.
Benefits: calms your dog down on walks around distractions.
Uses:
1. when you leave the front door or get out of the car to calm your dog down and focused near you before you set off.
2. to keep your dog near if another dog is passing and they are nervous or over excited,.
3. as part of your lead or recall training.
4. When visitors come to the house.
To train it:
5-15 reps
2-4 times per day
At home, in the garden, on walks
Gradually start adding distractions
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Leave
The first stage of training a ‘leave’ cue demonstrated amazingly by Sharon and her lovely dog Rosie.
Eventually this will be used to prevent Rosie from picking things up she shouldn’t have.
It can even be used to prevent your dog approaching other dogs or even when they have had a lot of sniffy time on a walk and you don’t have time for anymore sniffing as you need to get home 😊
Brilliant first stage of lead walking with Rebecca and Bodhi today. Starting without the lead and in the garden. Giving treats to Bodhi for walking near his owner 🙌😊
Recall 360
Learn a recall protocol to make your recall so much easier.
Week 1: we setup the whistle so that we can get the dog’s attention ☺️💪🏻
The French love their dogs just like we do ❤️🐾
They love them in all shapes sizes and breeds 🇫🇷🇫🇷🐾
Chris and Dixie have been struggling with leaving the house and Dixie pulling. They have some good foundation skills in place so they are going to practice this at the end of their walks and on their drive at a different time of day to when they normally go on their walks. This will make it easier for Dixie as she won’t be so excited 💪🏻💪🏻😊🐾
jumping up is a common challenge 🙈, after all dogs just want to say hello and that is how they do it. Today we practised new skills to conquer this common problem 🙌🤩🐾
“Quiet”
This can be very useful especially for attention barking. To start with practise this in different places when your dog isn’t barking. Then use it for real when your dog does a low level bark and isn’t completely stressed out. You can then develop the cue to use in more situations as part of a training plan looking at the whole lifestyle of the dog. 😊🐾🐶
What a brilliant Classic Ibiza event at Chatsworth last night. We had such a good night. It was so well organised and there was a search dog doing a really good job. It’s so important to give our dogs jobs to do. They dont have to be official search dogs, even searching for food and toys is a job and will help towards a better behaved dog 🐶
