Impulse Control
Super fun drills at our urban training tonight!
Proofing Drills with my dog Nyx ✨
Training
Very Rare Spaces!
We’ve had some spaces open up for Walk & Trains. These are group or solo based training - friendly and affordable ✅
Our group classes are now bookable online - assessments are needed before booking on for new clients. Email [email protected] to get booked on ✅
https://bookwhen.com/tacticalpaws
Behaviour Modification
Buddy making great decisions!
We’ve been working on behaviour modification with Buddy for a while now. He’s been building his confidence with me and today was a breakthrough!
We had one of our lovely trainers stooge dogs enter the cafe at different times and not a single reaction from this small pup. Previously he would lunge and scream.
Now he’s not ready for dogs that are not known by us or we know will not react to him but this is amazing!
Amazing decisions!
Warm Weather
Ways to cool your dog down in the hot weather ☀️
1. Of course frozen treats - you can buy doggy ice cream or make it at home. Our house favourite is frozen carrots.
2. Lots of fresh cool water - change every few hours
3. Cool Bandanas, Vests and Mats
4. Walking your dogs earlier or later to miss the midday sun - stick to the shade
5. Grooming - keeping coats short and for double coated dogs making sure they are brushed regularly
6. Water fun - get the hose out or the paddling pool and let your dog have fun in the water!
Enjoy the clip of our two loving their ice cream 🍦☀️
How often do you train your dog in new environments? When training your dogs in new environments this doesn’t only generalise their behaviour but also builds their confidence. Want your dog to start listening to you everywhere? Start training every try where ✅
Exposure
How often do you take your dog out for exposure training?
We recommend exposing your dog to new environments at least twice a week. Exposure builds your dogs confidence and ability to handle stressors in new environments.
What do we do in these environments?
We keep it easy for the dogs so we do not overwhelm them. We often focus on Heelwalking and downstays exercises.
When is your next exposure outing? 📍
Client Video ✅
🟢 Client Video 🟢
Deifer joined our training programme to work on his overall obedience and over friendliness.
He can now successfully stay on place and watch his family have a fun day out at cricket 🙌🏼
Amazing work from Deifer and his dedicated owners!
Contact us to see how we can help your dog 📞
Cooperative Care
How does your dog cope with being at the vets?
The vets can be a stressful environment for some dogs - lots of noise and smells. We first started with intense exposure with Nyx at the vets.
This exposure included lots of fun with the nurses and training inside and outside of the vets. This helped to completely remove negative association.
However / the big game changer for my dog and others I’ve trained is cooperative care.
What is this?
These are exercises that allow your dog to be more comfortable with handling but be willing to be evolved in handling.
In the video Nyxs command is “lay” she holds duration in this command while being touched and is rewarded afterwards. She is instructed to do this and can remove herself if over-threshold but chooses to remain. We use this at every vet appointment to make it less invasive.
Do you need help with this? Pop us a message.
Walk & Train
We put our training clients to the test today. They joined our pack environment to proof their obedience. All of these pups were taught individually before coming into this setting - hard work pays off ✅
We have an array of group classes! Everything from reactivity to Gundog. Check out our booking link 🙌🏼 #doggroupclasses #dogtrainingclasses #dogtrainer
Consistency In Training
We were practising a poo stay - and a dog with no owner appeared out of nowhere - the perfect test for my clients 🌟
In this video we have two reactive and two over friendly dogs that have all been asked for a sit or a down. We do not teach “stay” as the expectation is - they remain in the behaviour until released.
All of these dogs have been training with me for 3 weeks or more. The main goal of their training is reliability, consistency and neutrality.
Do you think they’ve reached it? 😍
Lifestyle Training with Eddie ☑️
Eddie - Offlead Training ✅
Over the past few days we have been proofing Eddies obedience and offlead reliability in multiple places.
Eddie was a very over social and over friendly dog that would run up to almost everyone to say hi. He’s learnt the perfect amount of ignorance to dogs and people.
His recall is 100% and we’ve now started to proof his “stops” and “offlead Heelwork”. All things that will make offlead time more manageable for his owner.
What do we use to manage our offlead dogs?
• Stop Command
• Emergency Downs
• Recall
• Offlead Heel
• Walk on Cue
Enjoy your freedom Eddie!
Training Weekend ✅
Nyx - 10 months old
Part of Nyxs routine she has 2 x training sessions a day. These are to work on general obedience but also towards her protection work.
She absolutely thrives in her training!
Nyx never attended Puppy Classes we trained her straight from the rescue 6 months ago.
Want to find out more? Pop us a message 📩
We have our next workshop coming up with the lovely Boots and Paws - don’t forget to book ✅
Loki today very much enjoying the Dirty Dancing tunes 🥳
✨ Walk & Train ✨
Exposure and Training all in one.
Today we covered exposure to trains, people and the dogs themselves. Each dog had 1:1 training with lead work and engagement. While the other dogs learned to watch and settle.
Giving affection to the dogs is something we like to do also - as this is often where you’ll find dogs get “jealous” so we practised calm while each dog had affection.
A huge mixture of dogs here - reactive, overfriendly and nervous. They all done amazingly well today 🚊
#walkandtrain #dogtrainer #exposuretraining
Marli - Session Two 🐾
Neutrality with other dogs
Obedience with the presence of dogs and triggers
Super proud of this sausage and his owners 🎉
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