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Artemis and I trailed with my friend Helen at Wainwright’s Canine Academy on Monday and Artemis was a little star as always 🤩
Helen put together this fab video for us 🥰🐾
I teach (and bang on a lot about 🙈) the value of reinforcing the "side" position for our dogs. This video demonstrates why!
I haven't called Artemis once on any of these occasions.. she simply checks in and assumes the position next to my leg 😁
She also does this when she's on the lead, I'll do another video for that!
PS apologies for the awful soundtrack 😜
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I love a game of recall ping pong to keep pups engaged outside, and to teach them the value of returning to their humans 😃 There's so many fabulous games we can play with our dogs regardless of breed or size, there's never any need for aversive methods or tools to keep them coming back to us ☺️🩷
Thor picked it up super quickly on his first time off lead yesterday! 🙌🥳
📢 Sound on! Perfect recall off a bouncy deer 🦌 😃 No need for "vibration" collars, prong collars or any other aversive nonsense.. just good old classical conditioning of a recall cue 💓☺️
Two of Artemis' own trails from Friday's mantrailing session with York Mantrailing 😁 She absolutely smashed all of them but on these 2 she did particularly well. So proud of her progress!
PS it's 4 minutes long but look her at little legs go 😆
🔈Sound on🔈 Otto had his first off-lead walk yesterday and he super smashed it 🤜 🤛 🙌
Here he is demonstrating that he knows ALL his new recall cues and games off.by.heart.... 🥳🤩
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If we do nothing else on our 1:1s we definitely laugh.. a lot 😂 And teeny Truffle on her first off lead adventure yesterday was so excited I just had to film her 😆
Once she’d got over her zoomies she actually listened beautifully to her mum and I and was a little star for the whole walk 😍
Lead walking is the most requested behaviour I’m asked to help clients with. Here’s a video of Artemis showing our training journey over the last 2 years.
We started when she was 8 weeks old, then I lost my mojo a bit when she was 1 and realised she was pulling like a steam train 🚂 and was reacting badly to traffic 🥺
So back to the drawing board and daily practice, and here we are today!
Watch it to the end because the last clip in the woods is genuinely impressive. She’s surrounded by her favourite furry creatures 🐿️ hence the stopping to observe the little b*ggers running around her from every angle 😆
Working on “place” training in our third class of Grade 2 Obedience/Life Skills this morning 😁
Everyone is working at their dog’s own pace, so we have focus on distance, duration and send-to being improved on here.
Some huge progression since Week 1 🥳🙌
I was chatting with a friend about scent work this afternoon and different odours and thought I’d teach Artemis a new one!
Here she is smashing a search for rosemary (had some in my spice rack 😂) after only working on it for 10 minutes!
Scent work is just fantastic for getting those busy spaniel brain cells working 😜 🧠
