Advocate for your dog!!!!!
"Advocate for your dog" 🌟🌟🌟🌟
"Dogs need to be put in their place"
I bet you've heard, if not us, but other trainers use this phrase. This is important for all dogs for various reasons.
In this video this drunk approached myself and Roxy, at one point leaning in for a stroke. I felt his demeanour to be passive agressive and Roxy certainly started to eye him.
I try to avoid filming him, but you can see how i step back and get myself between him and Roxy. When he stated that they need putting in their place he encroached too close to me and I felt he was trying to act dominant over myself and dog.
But I advocated for my dog by ensuring I dealt with the man verbally and she wasn't put into a situation where she needed to bite him. She was watching him and she was certainly ready to. She picked up on his energy and maybe the camera hasn't picked it up but for many of you who have met myself and Roxy you will know she's in no way an unfriendly dog or standoffish. She was with this guy, and it's no surprise.
Advocate for your dogs and yourself by not letting people stroke or chat s##t to your dog.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
#dogtraining #protectiondog #dogbite #dogattack
Food and command refusal!
Mika is a trainee protection dog who comes to our advanced obedience.
Refusing the commands of others and food refusal is super important for any dog in my opinion, but particularly a family protection dog.
We love this kind of training at advanced obedience. We progress dogs with our gradings, however it's nearly all transferable skills to the real world.
So these kinds of lessons are great if you want a dog that:
Doesn't approach strangers for food and fuss;
Doesn't run to strangers;
Stays in one spot, remains calm no matter how intense the distractions.
Everything in the video is achievable by any dog, and even though we consider this to be advanced obedience we get even the wildest and most reactive dogs working like this with amazing results throughout all of our classes.
Enjoy your weekend everyone, thanks Mika & Stuart for the pleasure I got training you guys and everyone else in classes today.
#dogtraining #dogtrainer #hull #driffield #beverley
#malsontour
Today #belgianmalinois and I visited the North Yorkshire Coast. I will be featuring content at least once a week of Roxy and my other dogs enjoying the summer holidays and enjoying this green and pleasant land known as England.
Last week we spent a fair amount of time around Wharram Percy and also around 🛩✈️, we are going to show you some of the most beautiful and dog friendly places in G-d's own Country - Yorkshire.
#dog #coast #Yorkshire
If you're wanting simple loose lead walking and to enjoy simple things like taking your dog to a beer garden then we can help. It's not just the fancy tricks, the simple things we want to enjoy with our dogs are often the hardest to achieve but we can help.
We can help no matter your goal, whether it be:
🐕Loose lead walking;
🐕Neautrality to people, dogs and wildlife;
🐕Staying calm in a busy public environment;
🐕Settling down at a cafe/pub/restaurant;
🐕Recalling;
🐕Generally listening and paying attention to you
🐕Yes fancy tricks too if that's what you like!
Get in touch today about our 121s and classes that will help enrich your life and your dog's life.
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If you've got a puppy or a working dog this is a must watch. Tomorrow (Saturday 27th) we've got a fireworks and loud noise desensitisation session. This should not be missed and is the ultimate preventive to stopping fear on and around bonfire night aswell as building #gundogs and #protectiondogs into sound well balanced #workingdofs
2pm at our training ground near Beverley/Driffield.
Not to be missed!
Facebook is a pain and shaved half this video off, it's meant to be just over 3 minutes long!!!
This off lead #saluki that was unresponsive to recall approached our group obedience class containing some reactive dogs. It shouldn't happen but it does so we need to prep our dogs and ourselves for such an event.
This post is not about hating on the woman so please no abusive comments. It's about awareness of such situations and the negative impacts it can have on reactive dogs and owners.
Let me know if this has happened to you and how you dealt with it in the comments. #reactivedogs #dogtraining
“If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed". Exodus 22:1-4
Roxy the #belgianmalinois takes down and stops a #robbery. #dogtraining #dogtrainer #protectiondog
Great finish to last week. Congratulations to Liam Macmillan, winning his first professional boxing bout in Beverley. All the local lads fighting did well and it was a cracking night of boxing.
Should be slightly cooler this week, but we will be monitoring temps carefully. Also Sundays puppy class this week is a fireworks desensitisation special, and is therefore on this Saturday at 2pm.
Tuesday - General Obedience, Beresford Playing Fields, 7.30pm.
Wednesday -
Mutts and mates Coffee morning, Marist Social Hall, 10.30-12.
Puppy Class, Beresford Playing Fields start - walking to beverley road. Focus on heelwork and environmentals, 7.30pm.
Thursday -
Social Walk. Creyke Bank Sub Station, Cottingham to Beverley Parklands, 7pm. https://maps.app.goo.gl/xcqsd2KmDy5PFfsM7
Friday -
Beverley Obedience, 6.30pm Saturday Market.
Saturday -
East Park Obedience - 9am
Driffield Obedience - 9am
Fireworks Desensitisation - 2pm
Sunday -
No classes
This video will give you advice on getting your dog in the position to take them to a super busy show like Driffield Agricultural Show and similar as well as highlighting what its like taking a working dog like Torah on a day out with the family like this.
Yesterday we visited the Driffield Show with Torah. Torah is a dog we mainly train knpv with (similar to a police dog). She's a 3 year old Dutch Shepherd and my own view is better trained than Roxy but in totally different ways.
When she is alone with a handler she's just as mad and as fast about work as Roxy. But when she is with family it's a total different kettle of fish. She continually checks on the location of the rest of the family and takes this very serious. This is a job she takes very serious and asking her to do tricks when out with the family is a whole lot more difficult, it's almost a distraction to her but she has a go with much less enthusiasm than when she's just with myself or handler.
In this video learn about:
💥Importance of neutrality;
💥Choice of rewards;
💥Luring dogs;
💥Allowing people to stroke your dog;
💥Social aspect of working dogs;
💥Protection Dogs in Public;
💥Dutch Shepherds;
💥Loose Lead Walking
#driffieldshow #driffield #protectiondogs #workingdogs #dogtraining #dogtrainer
Get your puppy used to fireworks now! Don't leave it until bonfire night when it may be too late.
Our level 2 week 2 class due to be held at Alf Marshall Centre on Sunday 28th July will be moved to our site 10 mins north of Beverley and to Saturday 27th May at 2pm where we are offering a firework and gunfire desensitisation session.
We are inviting all puppy and dog owners to bring their dogs down. This is a great opportunity to get your dog calm now to prevent issues arising and for those with working dogs to get your dogs ready for hunting or security work.
We do this as standard with protection dogs and we believe it should be a standard for all puppy training.
Prep your dog for real life. If you're a trainer we will also be offering either of our venues out for private hire to offer such sessions.
Today after obedience in Beverley I took Roxy and the family to see the #puppetfestival. If you don't know Roxy she's a trained family protection dog, who we've trained in many ways similar to a police dog (knpv training) and she's already had offspring go off into working government roles. She's from lines that have some serious genetics in and she's a dog that has no qualms whatsoever over biting bad guys.
I wanted to show you in transparent terms how a trained family protection dog should behave when in a super busy environment that could and would trigger the vast majority of dogs labelled as "protection dogs". It's my goal to make this level of training and control the norm even for licenced Police Dogs - not just family protection dogs.
What I often see, also, is dogs being labelled as protection dogs walking around often on multiple collars - including prongs and ecollars. Tools have their place, but for me too many dogs are simply pushed into bite work and labelled as protection dogs when effectively they're just reactive dogs. A trained family protection dog should not require tools such as prongs and ecollars once "fully trained"(if there is such a thing).
It's not that I'm against tools, we use ecollars, but if we are reliant on tools then we have a walking liability. What if those tools fail?
What do you think?
#belgianshepherd #belgianmalinois #protectiondog #policedogs #workingdogs
Watch me nearly get NAILED by this Dutch Shepherd.
Today we had Gunnar the #dutchshepherd back. Gunnar has been displaying aggression to people and lead pulling.
The first session I had to spend behind the gate for my own safety. Huge improvement this session and big hats off to his owner. I am excited to continue our reactivity sessions with this lad because I think he has big potential and I want his owner to be able to enjoy her very beautiful young dog.
He's super smart and he's responding well to the balanced training methods that we use. Now that I can start to get closer we can deliver more intense training and he should start to improve even faster.
The sly movement around his owner's back to try and get me shows why behaviour modification is not for amateurs. This is dangerous and skilled work that needs a seasoned professional. At Archer K9 we offer skilled coaching on behaviour modification with vast experience at dealing with dogs like Gunnar and with proven results.
As with any of the claims we make at Archer K9 we can back them up with video evidence. Ask any trainer to show what they've done from start to finish. You must remember that handling a dog in this state needs really high level handling skills and it takes a lot for handlers who are not professional to perform what is asked to modify the behaviour.
Therefore always consult with a professional with a proven track record of training and handling not just breeds like this but dogs displaying aggression like this.
For a dog like Gunnar 121s are always needed first, reactivity needs knocking back and confidence of the handler raised before going in at the deep end. His owner has a lot to learn and work on and I think she's stepping up to the plate, so big respect to Emma.
We will always set you and your dog up to win. Absolutely well done to Gunnar's owner today because as stressed above, handling a dog like this is not easy. We see a lot of watered down Dutch Shepherd mixes these da
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Meet Ziggy the Sprollie.
Ziggy has been displaying agression to everyone outside the immiedate family - both coming into the house and public. We had to do the first session in public.
Ziggy really didn't want me anywhere near. She started some intense training through our behaviour modification programme.
By the end of the session she was tolerating me being within 10 foot, which is a big win. She's far from cured but has taken a giant leap towards the end goal of being neutral to people.
The speed in which she picked things up was brilliant. Excellent work by her owners who had to take in an awful lot of theory I was teaching them whilst handling the practical side of the deliver of the training.
Really good work, I can't wait till the next session and to bring this insanely beautiful and clever dog into group sessions!
#sprollie #collie #reactivedogs #dogtraining #dogtrainer
Police Scotland have just reported that a Police Dog is running loose after taking chase of a deer. This poses lots of questions on public safety, law and again highlights the ecollar debate.
My thoughts are with the handlers and trainers in Scotland who will be worried. Give the police the tools they need to have better trained dogs. When it comes to police dogs this positive only nonsense should be treated for what it is - nonsense. If the Police trainers could use ecollars it would lead to more reliable dogs and would 100% have stopped this situation happening which could turn really sour for any unfortunate member of the public Police Scotland.
#ecollar #policedogs #dangerousdogs #missingdogs
Statement from Police Scotland:
'We are appealing for the help of the public to trace a police dog that is missing in a remote area north of the A831 near Loch Ness.
PD Fergie was being walked north of Pormaily House around 10am on Sunday, 30 June, when a deer bolted in front of her and she ran off. Despite a search of the area she has not been seen since.
She is a black and tan three-and-a-half-year-old German Shepherd.
Chief Inspector Gordon Fotheringham, Police Dog Unit lead for the North, said: “This is a regular walking route for PD Fergie and for her to run off is out of character. Concerns are growing that she may be injured and unable to respond when called.
“Searches are underway and officers are in the area. We are asking anyone who sees her to get in touch.
“PD Fergie is a trained police dog and while she has a friendly nature she may not react to the public in the same way that other dogs would.
“If you see her stand still and engage in a normal manner as you would with any dog by speaking to her. She may stand and bark and this is normal behaviour for a trained police dog.
“Our advice is not to run towards or away from PD Fergie under any circumstances. If you see her call us on 101, quoting reference number 0056 of Monday, 1 July, 2024.
If you have a reactive dog you need to watch this video.
#reactivedog #reactivedogtraining #dogtraining #dogtrainer
Energy crashes caused by heat and exercise are often treated with glucose from the doggie first aid box.
This isn't what I use, dogs are not designed to eat this stuff although it can help in an emergency. I think raw natural honey is a better option for recovery from energy and heat crashes. Obviously there are other things that you should be doing for your dog such as hosing them down with cool water and getting them to vets ASAP.
Giving honey could be a good preventative though! Enjoy the weather but keep them cool and Paws off hot concrete.
I'll be heading to the beech tonight, we are never more than 75 miles from a beech in this country so take advantage!
#summer #heatwave #dogs
