Often when we look at reactive behaviour, we hear that we should keep the reactive dog under threshold at all times. And whilst it’s true that dogs struggle to cope let alone learn during that reaction, by playing it safe they may not make real progress.
After all, if you always avoid the situation you find difficult, you won’t have the opportunity to work through it and learn to cope better than before.
With this particular dog, rather than avoiding potential triggers, we walked the edge of the threshold. This way, when a reaction occurs, the dog can learn to work through a difficult situation, try again and cope better.
*You should always consult and work under the guidance of a qualified behaviourist who can carefully set training like this out and work on the necessary foundation skills first.
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Take a look at these puppies absolutely acing our recall practice inside and outside!
It's always a great feeling when we get to watch our clients building great bonds with their puppies during their time training with us.
Our next puppy training dates are up on the website:
🐾Saturday 7th September 1.30pm
🐾Tuesday 17th September 6pm
Book now: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/c09297d2/?categories[]=Puppy%20
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Check out some of our clients working on their loose lead skills in classes last weekend!
Loose lead walking is a team effort! And it’s so important to start young. We often allow our puppies to pull us towards people and other dogs to say hello (whether this is appropriate socialisation is a topic for another day 😊). This teaches them that by putting tension on the lead, they get to move forward, a habit that can be hard to change.
One of the main focus points in our classes is for our dogs to learn to move with our handlers rather than pulling them in all directions. We also teach our handlers that dogs need to have opportunities to sniff and be dogs!
This means the skill of loose lead walking requires focus and concentration from both the dog AND the human.
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Meet Roxy!
Roxy is a nearly 2 year old Border collie. During adolescence she has become increasingly more worried about strangers and other dogs.
She loves training as it gives her something to focus on.
Using her love of training, we have started working on a very simple loose lead pattern. This pattern is quickly becoming a very rewarding activity and we will gradually start introducing distractions into this and eventually triggers.
Behaviour is driven by emotion so to change her behaviour, we need to change how she feels.
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A big shout out to all of our recent puppy class graduates who have been hard at work on loose lead walking skills!
As part of our puppy training classes we work really hard on a lot of foundation skills, including loose lead walking. These guys absolutely smashed it with some really nice heel work around all kinds of distractions up at the training barn 👏
Head to our website to book onto our next puppy courses: https://www.allpositivedogservices.co.uk/book-now
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Meet Tilly!
Tilly is a rescue dog that we've been working with on our Trained For You service, she has spent considerable time in kennels over her life.
For her, that means it's taking time to adjust to a new life and all the things that come with living in a new place, with a new owner. The lead in particular is a very new thing for her! The lead means you’re going places, out of your kennel and on new adventures.
She very easily gets overaroused on walks which means she struggles to focus on her handler.
One of our goals for her training is working on loose lead skills, however that starts with focus. And that can’t be magicked out of nothing!
On our trained for you programme we always look at the dog in front of us, and for Tilly that means we are focusing on being able to build a connection before we start working on new skills. We also have to find environments and activities in which she CAN engage with us.
To find out more about our behaviour service and trained for you service visit here: https://www.allpositivedogservices.co.uk/dog-training-done-for-you-in-herefordshire
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The whole team had a fantastic time at Ludlow Dog Day!
A massive thank you to all of our clients who came out to support us with demos and to everyone who came along to try out some dog sports as well as chat with the team 🐾
We can't wait to do it all again next year ❤
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Starting this week! 🐾
Be quick to grab one of the remaining spots, starting 1st August, at 6.15pm.
Over the 8 week course you’ll learn how to teach your dog scent identification, indication as well as handling & searching skills.
This course is great for those wanting to try a new sport or simply do something fun with their dogs. After completing the course you’ll be able to go on to our weekly scent club!
Book now: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/c09297d2/?categories[]=Scent%20Work
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Why you should join our weekly dog club 👇
🐾 Open to any ability level - Once you’ve completed a class or 1:1 session this club will help you expand on your training skills
🐾 Community - Join like-minded dog owners in a supportive training environment
🐾 WhatsApp Group - Access to a WhatsApp group where everyone can share progress throughout the week.
🐾 Dog Sports - Experience advanced training, parkour, heelwork to music and a range of sports.
🐾 Fun! - This class is always run in a relaxed and flexible way to make sure both owner and dog are having the most fun!
Interested? Visit our website to learn more 👇
https://www.allpositivedogservices.co.uk/dog-clubs-in-herefordshire
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Are you making this common mistake with your dog?
One of the key things when training your dog is being able to give clear feedback using a marker word or clicker paired with a reward. However, being humans we often end up accidentally introducing other signals that can confuse our dogs.
To avoid this, we always want to aim for neutral body language and hands, marking and rewarding within two seconds, and being consistent. This is the best way to help your dog come away from a training session with a better understanding of what you’re teaching them.
Follow along for more training advice!
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One of our wonderful 1:1 clients working hard on their loose lead walking and handler focus!
Want to build on your focus with your gundog or gundog mix? Stay tuned for our new gundog classes coming this autumn 👀.We’ll be looking at loose lead work, recall, retrieve, handler focus and much more to create the foundations for a successful gundog!
What are you working on with your gundog currently? Drop a comment below.
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Introducing a new puppy to an existing dog isn’t always easy!
This is Doris a 13 week old puppy and Hector, a 5 year old Terrier. Hector in general gets on well with other dogs and likes to play, but that is not quite the same as a young puppy in the house.
After all puppies have razor sharp teeth and claws, generally have very few manners when it comes to social skills and can be pretty annoying!
Hector and Doris’s owners have been working with us since bringing Doris home. Hector did not know what to make of her and was clearly uncomfortable in her company.
We have been taking it slow, at Hector’s pace, working on slow introductions in the most relaxed way possible. Ironically they have spent most of their time apart, not together.
This is a long term relationship so taking it slow to give both dogs time to adjust, means we are now reaping the benefits.
In this video Hector has every opportunity to move away, but he is choosing to engage with Doris and is giving off some lovely play signals.
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Did you know your dog can smell the direction of an odour and that the part of their brain that deals with scent is 40 times greater than in us humans?
In this course we take you on the journey of scent and help you work together with your dog as a team using your dog's amazing sense.
You and your dog will learn to search, indicate, how to do a blind search and much more!
https://www.allpositivedogservices.co.uk/beginners-scent-work-in-herefordshire
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New herbs for our tea and for puppy socials ready for Wednesday one spot left !
Puppy socials
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When working with reactive dogs, the first thing I start with is not what the dog reacts to, it’s is skills, patterns.
Adrenaline is the main neurotransmitter at play in reactive behaviour. Adrenaline creates movement, all the blood supply is sent to the heart and muscles, ready for action!
For this reason it’s SOOO hard for dogs to sit when faced with a trigger. If you saw a snake crawling towards you, could you just sit nice and still?
So I often start with teaching a reliable pattern of behaviour that uses movement. The dog needs to be able to do this first just at home, then around triggers that the dog doesn’t react to before finally introducing the dog’s trigger.
The pattern is simple, predictable and rewarding. In this example it is simply the dog moving a few steps forwards, then turning and walking back towards the owner. Whilst doing this, they have the chance to just look, and process.
Kali is a rescue dog. She can react to other dogs by barking, lunging and spinning on the lead.
I am filming this with my dog with me so when she looks at the camera, she is looking at Moss.
Previously she would have been reacting, today she managed to look, process and move on
Back due to popular demand! Starting Saturday 13th July!
Our 4 week Loose Lead Bootcamp. Over the course of the weeks you will learn why your dog pulls, what does loose lead mean to you, we will cover different techniques to encourage this behaviour and we will look at different ways to reward!
https://www.allpositivedogservices.co.uk/book-now
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New starters and week three on our puppy socials this week, fantastic sessions well done all xx
Puppy socials
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Starting to look at luring in session one, practicing using a spin so we can learn together and develop the skills.
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Bit of focused heel work practice in the sunshine last night!
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Good job in our Intermediate class last night where we looked at the idea of a Premack recall.
For our dogs the environment is full of rewards and it can be extremely difficult to compete with that!
So we worked on teaching our dogs that to get what they really want, they first need to do something they are less inclined to do. This allows us to use things in the environment as rewards for behaviours!
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