Archer K9

Don't avoid things that might scrare your dog or puppy! See everything as an opportunity to build positive associations. Chainsaws and woodchippers here....it was extremely loud...the camera dumbs the noise down... I read a post yesterday from a woman moaning about crop scarers scaring her dog! Like FGS train your dog or move to the City. Genetics and early life play a big factor in nerves but you can train through that. Train don't moan! #dogtraining #dogtrainer #dog #puppy #pup #belgianmalinois #malinois

Dog toys aren't cheap - especially when you have a lot of dogs. Some dogs are like kids. Get them a present and the prefer playing with the box! Is Pablo going to prefer the tennis ball or the stick! #dogs #dog #malinois #dutchshepherd #funnydogvideos

Session 2 for this Human Reactive Malinois x Akita. This lad is as game as toast. The video of his 1st session earned me a lot of abuse and libellous remarks from self titled R+ only trainers. They all seemed to claim that this lads reactivity was caused from previous use of corrections. Nothing could be further from the truth. In session 1 I had to take the lead. When his owner did try to offer rewards he would try to bite his owner through his muzzle to resource guard the food. This is when I took the lead. I corrected him a few times using a check chain. Nothing major just enough to stop him trying to nail me and to settle him down. It worked because he did settle down and his owner then managed to start some engagement work with the dog. I could then get close enough to set some exercises for his owner to do daily between sessions. Fast forward to session 2 and what a difference. The exercises are clearly starting to work. He didn't react once to me in 60 minutes. We are currently conditioning him on the ecollar, which may not even be needed but as we progress in his 6 week reactivity course I would like his owner to have the option and safety net of the collar so we can start exposing this lad to people off lead! Balanced training saves lives. #dogtrainingtips #dogtrainer #dog #dogs #Reactivedogs #malinois #akita

The centre command is probably the easiest trick to teach your dog. It's handy if you are in tight spaces and concerned someone will trod on your dog or your dog may take a nibble of someone of something. It's a good position to have good control of your dog and it's also a position that you will use to develop other tricks as well as a centre positioned heel. The early key is food in both hands and swapping so your dog switches hands as needed. Eventually you want to phase out the luring so it's important that you say the command word, mark the behaviour and reward consistently in that centre position. #dogtricks #dogtrainingtips #dog #dogs #hull

Playing tug with your dog is more important that playing ball! It's more effective for training obedience, it's helps build a great relationship with your dog and is an outlet and way of controlling their natural prey drive! Now not every dog, especially older likes tug! But most will find the buzz for it if they like chasing things! Start with a rag and things like that! Build their love of the game, and then use those toys to train things like obedience and agility. It's a game changer! #dogs #dog #dogtrainingtips #dogtrainer ##dogtraining

So I've been having a go at teaching pint sized Belgian Shepherd, Anger, to spin around whilst dancing - pirouette trick I'm calling it. The key to this trick is having a dog that has good balance just on their hindlegs - what I call a dance command. I posted a couple of weeks ago teaching that to Gulcan. The difficult lies in preventing the dog kangaroo jumping and then loosing balance. I think the key is steady and slow luring and not raising the hand up or down while luring. Which I made the mistake of doing a fair bit! Once your dog can balance on hindlegs it's about having a treat above their head and doing the same motion as when teaching a 4 legged spin command! It's really that simple. The main thing is just building up the strength and balance of your dog. This tires them out quickly and I would advise keeping sessions short so as not to risk over doing it and causing an injury. Have a go at the trick and please post the results below. If you've got any tips to improve this let me know! #dogtricks #dog #dogs #malinois #belgianshepherd

Massive respect to this handler and I feel totally inspired. Stiff upper lip, just cracking on with life despite the obstacles and doing so with a smile on his face too! I can always tell when people are putting the training in between sessions. Amazing work and out and about walking pretty nice after 2 weeks training and only the third puppy training session. Buster is nearly there with the lead conditioning and I can't wait to see him progress further! You all hear me moan about people stroking my dogs without asking. 2 people did it to this young pup, and people need to wake up and realise that doing this could have negative consequences and impact on his handler! Having a drivey puppy makes things harder in a lot of ways. But these 2 are just cracking on, smile on the face and spring in the step. Inspiring! #puppy #dog #dogtraining #labrador #pup

What behaviour does your dog love to do?

Blaze loves to dance. Obviously I can dance, my moves back in the 90''s in LAs were legendary 🤣🤣🤣 My own Roxy loves to orbit. Foxy loves to kangaroo. My Loki likes to sniff crothces 🤣🤣🤣🙈🙈🙈 What behaviour does your dog love to do and offer up? If you've got videos even better please share! 👇 #dogs #dog #dogtricks #dogtraining #dogtrainer

The "Send Around" command will be known to those who do agility training or working dog sports.. It's a way of building drive for agility and also in working trials. Torah here will go around some pretty large buildings - meaning she is out of sight for some time when she does. It takes a dog to be very focused, and teaches them to work independently with the handler out of sight. The next video I post with Torah will be step 1 of training this command and will take you through to going around some pretty large things! Notice that I say things....taught properly your dog will run around the full perimeter of whatever it is that you point at that they come to 1st! I will explain more in the next video! #dog #dogs #malinois #dutchshepherd #dogtricks #dogagility