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Are they too excitable?
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Do they just not listen?
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*Realistic loose lead walking*
A commonly seen issue with many of my clients is loose lead walking, walking to heel, 100% focus on just you.
It's not realistic.
There is a huge difference between a dog that pulls and a dog that walks nicely on lead, it's just not realistic to expect your dog to walk to heel all the time.
Your dog can have brilliant focus, like you see in the 30 second clips on Facebook and Instagram of dogs with their heads up waiting for their next command, but I can guarantee after the camera stops rolling those dogs are allowed to break from their heel command.
It is so important to allow your dog the freedom to explore, sniff and take in its surroundings. To decompress.
Dogs that are given opportunities to explore and decompress actually tend to learn loose lead walking quicker and are more willing to perform the heel command because they know they have the opportunity to decompress afterwards.
Give your dog the space and time they deserve to sniff enjoy their walk, and the likelihood is they will return the favour and allow you to enjoy your walk by walking to heel when asked.
Here is my dog Daisy showing how she knows to walk to heel on a loose lead when commanded, but also appreciates the freedom to walk ahead, sniff and explore when I break her from the command with her break word "okay"
If you would like to achieve this, or any other behavioural improvements with your dog, don't hesitate to message!
No matter the weather.... Get your training in ! 🐶
Giving emotionally overwhelmed dogs the direction and time to correct their behaviours and learn from it is critical on breaking the bad habits they've built up.
Doritos is only just 6 months and has already been exhibiting unwanted behaviours when he sees another dog, barking lunging and extreme lead pulling.
In the 20 minutes of working with him, he became comfortable around my decoy Daisy and relaxed a lot.
You can see between the two clips the difference in his body language. The first clip Daisy was about 20 metres away.
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Back with another reel about @k9connectables and a great use for them!
As well as a food distraction from the bath, licking and chewing are calming behaviours which release feel good endorphins in your dogs brain, helping to reassociate bathtime with feeling good!
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💬 Is your dog nervous at bathtime?
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Encouraging calmness around other dogs
Does your dog get over excited when they see another dog out and about?
Cara is still a young pup but she's already showing over excitement around other dogs, jumping and lunging to get to them. It is important during socialisation that dogs understand they can't run up to / say hi to every dog they see.
A great way for your dog to understand this is to encourage calmness around other dogs.
In this video you can see the progres Cara made in just 15 short minutes.
💬 Have any questions? Drop them below in the comments section, or send me a DM!
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Let me let you in on a secret...
Let me let you in on a secret...
Training your dog won't happen overnight!!
If it was that easy, everydog would behave like an angel 😇
The hard work you put in determines the hard work your dog puts in, you'll have days where you feel like you're not making any progress but stick at it I promise they will get where you want them to be ❤️
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Do your dogs go mad at the doorbell?
Do you have dogs that bark at the front door and set eachother off?
Harley, Shadow and Wolfie all live together peacefully, however when the doorbell goes Wolfie sounds the alarm and Harley joins in. They get so tense that it can often lead to a fight between the two of them. To help break down the energy explosion of the doorbell reaction I went and helped their owner with basic place training.
When there's multiple dogs in a household it is key to train each dog individually to a reliable level before introducing the command to more than one dog at a time.
As Wolfie is the instigator Harley and Shadow would probably be better together with the command than with Wolfie until 100% accurate.
As Wolfie is an older more stubborn boy, his owner thought he wouldn't be interested in learning but he proved her wrong!
All 3 dogs done amazingly well for their first session.
I'm looking forward to visiting again to see their progress in the future.
🐾 Cara 🐾
🐾 Cara 🐾
Yesterday I met this bundle of joy, a beautiful 17 week old Labrador. Her owners have already put some great work into her but they just need help and a bit of direction with her jumpiness and impulse control around guests.
Follow along for her progress in our traianing together this month!
Things I taught my dog that just make sense....
Things I taught my dog that just make sense....
🌟 To let me know when she needs to go to the garden
🌟 Place training for doorway manners
🌟 Desensitisation to manipulation (great for vet exams and general care)
🌟 To ignore human food
Amoung many other things! Daisy is a 4 year old cockapoo and is always keen to learn new tricks and general obedience. Let me know if your dog does any of the above, or if you'd like help with getting to this point with your pooch 🐾
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"Place" Training
In this video you can see Ralph's owners working on "Place", Ralph is a really good boy but the barking neighbours are just too tempting for him and his owners wanted help with breaking his habit of fence line pacing in anticipation for the Great Bark Off. He already has great recall whilst in a reactive state, but this command should help him break the habit of running out and straight to the fence.
You can see in the video, both owners are getting involved in training as it's no good him only listening to one of them.
Ralph has quite a low food drive, so our training sessions together are using a mix of high value treats such as boiled chicken, and his favourite toys. Chopping and changing the reward keeps him interested and focused on the task at hand.
He picked up the idea very quickly as seen in the video, I've left his owners to work on building the distance and duration of the command and will check back with them and Ralph in 2 weeks time.
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If you want to train your dog "Place" for this reason, or to stop them running out the front door, or even to keep them out of the kitchen while you're cooking here's a simplified breakdown of steps to achieve a solid "Place".
🐶 Get a reward that grabs atttention, and a strong command word, such as “place”. Secondly, get a marker word, such as “yes!”
🐶 Place a mat or towel down. Start in close proximity and use the reward to lure them onto the mat, say the command “place” as you’re luring them. Once all 4 paws are on the mat reward him, remember to use your marker word!
🐶 When they are consistent in close proximity, start to create a bit of distance between the mat and yourself when commanding your dog.
🐶 When they are consistent at a greater range, add more duration to the time spent on the mat by commanding them to go to their place, then waiting before marking and rewarding.
🐶 Build up the distance and duration more and more, until you can comm
"Look"
This is the gorgeous little Pippa, a border terrier puppy. Her owner seeked my help for general set up for life training, with an older dog who is dog reactive they were adament they wanted Pippa to start life on the right track.
I have had a few sessions with Pippa and her owners and we have worked on sit and wait, this way, and look to help keep her focus on her owner when distractions present themselves.
In this reel you can see the early stages of training "look". From our previous session, Pippa knew that "look" meant to keep focus on her mum. Today we worked on building distance between Pippa and the treat ( height of owner standing) and then went on to introducing a distraction, today the distraction was me rolling a ball right past her while being commanded to "look" she done amazing and refocused herself everytime after watching the ball roll past. Her owner was also amazing with the reward timing and praise which is essential in helping Pippa develop the correct associations with what is expected of her.
Harness desensitisation
Here's some more clips from todays session with Pippa. Since starting our training she has presented avoidance behaviour of having her harness put on, so today we worked on desensitisation of the harness going on and then developing it into the behaviour we want, for Pippa to confidently be able to have her harness put on.
By teaching Pippa to place her head through the harness rather than place the harness over her head, she won't feel as threatened by it and she feels as though she has control. If she doesn't feel confident enough she won't out her head through, she picked this up very quickly and the next steps for this trianing will be increasing the distance by a few steps to encourage her to walk toward the harness and place her head through.
Continuing this training method should soon mean when she's called from the bottom of the garden for a walk she will make her way over an spit her harness on nicely, rather than running the opposite way 😊
