I've been doing some neutralising, socialising & desensitisation training with Mr Bentley Blue & Ms Tiger Lilly in the town centre over the past few weeks, and the dogs have been absolutely smashing it, while also becoming a familiar face to locals.
Today, I meet my first proper Karen, who I spotted, was filming myself and my dogs training. Throughout and after this video, she was calling out that my dogs are off lead, out of control, and aggressive.
Yes, the dogs are off lead. As you'll clearly hear and see in the video, I have given clear! commands to my dogs and even told the filming Karen, they are in training and are fully under control. Please note, I wouldn't be doing a training exercise like this without feeling comfortable doing it and trusting my dogs to obey they're commands.
This Karen continued to film me after I stopped this video, even coming up to me and my dogs with her camera in my face and her out of control, show-line springer yanking on a harness, while lunging uncomfortably towards my 2. Which if anything made her Spaniel look unfriendly & aggressive. I asked her multiple times to recall it and she didn't, this proving my point that she has 0 control over her dog.
Full well knowing she was then becoming a problem for me and my dogs, I put my 2 back on their leads, walked away and politely told her to enjoy the rest of her Sunday and go forth to multiply.
#Karenoftheweek
Introducing Little Kim, the Lakeland Terrier.
Little Kim's owner got in contact with us regarding her handler engagement and recall, while being walked by the owners partner.
After explaining, demonstrating and practicing the best method to help achieve these goals, which was done all thanks to a highly demanded biscuit (not all dogs are like this) we managed to help build a new, fun relationship between the two.
Meet Raff, the 3 year old working line Labrador retriever.
Raffs owner's got in contact with us regarding his recall, handler engagement, lead engagement and desensitising his over excitement to other dogs.
Now I could write an absolute essay of a post but I'll let the video speak for itself, this is the outcome of two 1 hour sessions and daily practice at home.
We look forward to seeing Raff at our Controlled exposure classes in the future.
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Here's the first of many to come, starting with the simple heel command.
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