Lucy
Lucy ❤️ day at the horse field
Introducing Hover Hiccup 😂
Dallas
Mr Dallas working on some impulse control mid way through his work ❤️
Pack walk at hunting hill today 😁 working on correct socialisation and letting dogs offlead to interact and relax together when calm for good social experiences ❤️ Couldn’t have been happier with the big guy today. He’s turning into a little (ok, big) legend ❤️🥰.
*the German shepherd didn’t break a sit, she was just joining in for freebies 😅😂.
Stark Dog Training Samantha Stark
Little miss Nellie did so well at the Sutherland show today. I’ve not put her in a situation THIS busy yet and she just dealt with it like the little legend she is. The longer we stayed the happier she was!
Nellie is still available for adoption to a dog savvy home. She would suit an active home that likes to go on adventures. She loves trail riding with my horses and doing obedience work. She’s a die hard hiking fan. She’s good with other dogs and has enjoyed her pack walks. She wouldn’t be suitable around small kids but older kids/teenagers would be fine.
Recall, check ins, freedom as a reward/resource and engagement with Kai.
Kai the lurcher x lab x springer mix is here for 2 weeks of board and train. Kai has the opportunity to have a great life at his owners property running around with the horses in the fields all day and walking in the woods, and sniffing scents, however, when Kai gets on a scent he will blow off all recall and has been known to go for miles (he wears a gps tracker). The thing is when a dog gets on a scent it isn’t ‘like’ they can’t hear you, they actually CANT hear you. The blood leaves the ear canal and goes to the nose. He’ll be getting conditioned to an ecollar so he can live his best life and ‘feel’ his owner call for him when he can’t hear her. The ecollar works like a gentle tap on the shoulder to say ‘hey buddy, you didn’t hear me but if you come back I’ve got something good for you’.
I should add that an ecollar is not a shock collar. These are two very different things. Whilst an ecollar COULD be used aversively, a shock collar can ONLY be used aversively. E collars are a tens machine that have between 100-250 levels and most dogs will respond well to single digits - a level I can not even feel at all on my hand or neck. I often put my own ecollar on my bad knee at levels 50-60 to help with rehabilitation. It isn’t uncomfortable! For comparison most shock collars have under ten levels and when I have used them on a level one on myself I have involuntarily thrown them across the room.
There are so many dogs out there who simply cannot experience safe offlead freedom without ecollar work - and that’s ok. You don’t have to give offlead freedom for a fulfilling life (that’s why we have long lines!) But if you could, and you knew the tool doesn’t hurt or frighten your dog, why wouldn’t you give that to them? I can honestly say I was staunchly against ecollar work until I saw it done right and with the right tools. The force free community would want you to believe that these tools are evil, can only cause negative reactions