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RB Canine Academy Training owners to train their dogs My names Ryan and I am the sole trainer at the RB Canine Academy.

Over the past 8 years of working with thousands of dogs and having experienced hundreds of breeds in all shapes and sizes I have wanted to make a difference to the lives of our canine companions. Working with other trainers and educating myself over the past couple of years has allowed me to expand my knowledge in how to help even the most difficult of cases. Working with reactive, aggressive or j

ust out of control dogs has allowed me to be able to pick apart a situation and find the best solution and training style for your dog. I aim to give you the tools an the information necessary to allow you and your dogs relationship to thrive and allow all dogs to have the life they deserve.

Your dog was bred with something in mind. Spaniels are built to flush and have a taste for retrieving birds. Your terrie...
20/10/2024

Your dog was bred with something in mind.

Spaniels are built to flush and have a taste for retrieving birds.

Your terrier was made for high prey drive and will love to chase small furry animals and play tug and shake things.

Your German Shepherd will be defensive and act suspiciously around new things.

If you fail to give your dog purpose they will become a slave to their genetics and just go through the motions.

Now, it’s all well and good me saying you should give them purpose but how do we do that? We do our best to provide fulfilment for the things they are for.

We play tug and give an outlet for our terriers and shepherds. We do retrieval work and fetch for our labradors and retrievers. We do scent work for our spaniels.

By giving our dogs an outlet related to their genetics we give them purpose to act on what is natural. If you aren’t doing it, then that’s probably going to be a reason they’re struggling.

26/09/2024
DOG TRAINING 101 This course is for any and all ages that wish to learn about dogs so bring your pad and pen and your li...
13/09/2024

DOG TRAINING 101

This course is for any and all ages that wish to learn about dogs so bring your pad and pen and your listening ears so that you can take away the most amount of information possible!

An affordable workshop open to anyone whether they have a dog or not.

We will be going through all the important educational aspects of understanding dogs and then putting that into practice with dogs provided for you to work with!

YOU DO NOT BRING YOUR DOG TO THIS WORKSHOP!!!!

NOVEMBER 16TH - 10:30am -3pm - OAKHAM

Current clients - £50 per person
New clients - £75 per person

We hear this waaaay too often and I can’t really believe people think it’s a viable excuse. All dogs can be trained to a...
29/07/2024

We hear this waaaay too often and I can’t really believe people think it’s a viable excuse.

All dogs can be trained to a high level. The only thing that’s stopping them is you!

“Huskies just don’t have good recall”. No, you can’t train a husky to have good recall.

“Doodles just naturally want to follow you everywhere anyway”. No, you never trained your doodle to hold a bed stay.

There is no excuse. Breed can make a difference in terms of genetic desires to interact with a the environment more than others but that does not mean it’s an excuse for you to not train them!

The only thing that’s holding your dog back is you, and if you can’t train your dog to a high level after trying that’s perfectly fine. But not asking for help to get them to that point is wasting your dogs potential and wasting their life.

Unlock your dog, ask for help, don’t blame their breed

We all know how good a dogs nose is. So why do we think that putting our hand up them is a good way to greet them? They ...
23/07/2024

We all know how good a dogs nose is.

So why do we think that putting our hand up them is a good way to greet them? They have capability to detect the tiniest changes in hormonal levels to be service dogs.

So why do we put our hand out to smell them? Invasion of space can make a dog uncomfortable or even go on the offensive if their signals are ignored.

I think it’s because of this. If I held my hand out to you to shake your hand, you would (hopefully) shake it back as a peace offering.

A dog coming to sniff you is a hand outstretched, to us we outstretch our hand as a courtesy. Dogs do not work this this.

A dog coming up to you is not an invitation to touch all the time.

In this scenario you should not reach out your hand. Wait to see if the dog leaves or stays after they sniff you and then see if they want to engage.

If you try to entice a dog over and they don’t want to. Forcing that interaction won’t make you friends, but it does give you an increased chance of getting bit.

Ignore dogs

It is impossible to avoid stress. This does not mean we throw our dogs into the lions den with every fear they’ve ever h...
10/07/2024

It is impossible to avoid stress.

This does not mean we throw our dogs into the lions den with every fear they’ve ever had. But it does mean that exposing them to the things they’re scared of is important, even if it is distressing for them.

Being scared of the bins we cannot run away from, they should be encouraged to investigate and overcome those fears.

If they have are scared of the lead or even being introduced to lead pressure they cannot be taught that having a fit and tantrum is going to work.

Work them through it, and even if it distressing for them you know it will benefit them in the long run.

The ethics of welfare span the entire life span of the dog, not just in the moment. If a few moments of discomfort or stress to get a dog out of a hole and into a better life for their remaining years,

Absolutely I will do it every time so that dogs world is open to the maximum it can be.

Why is it your business? Unless someone is specifically asking for your advice then you don’t give it. Sometimes that’s ...
29/06/2024

Why is it your business?

Unless someone is specifically asking for your advice then you don’t give it.

Sometimes that’s really hard coming from a professional point of view because we want to correct misinformation or fix things before they get too far.

The difficult bit about it is that people need to want to be helped in order to be helped.

People do not take well to you just interjecting and trying to fix their problems when they didn’t ask. It’s rude, and makes them feel like they aren’t trying because you’re just telling them they could be doing someone else to be better.

Your opinion is not needed if it isn’t asked for. You are going to have that opinion anyway but that doesn’t mean it needs to come out of your mouth.

If people want help, they will ask, if people do not ask, keep it to yourself, or tell someone else if you feel the need to share it.

It’s unwarranted advice. You’re not being their saviour by commenting on their instagram reel about how their training is going so well and offering your opinion on how you did it with your dog. They didn’t ask.

If it’s an open conversation and they are welcoming advice, that’s your cue to start typing.

Always be the student. There seems to be this thing where people who train a specific way think they just know more or k...
22/06/2024

Always be the student.

There seems to be this thing where people who train a specific way think they just know more or know everything someone else does which is a ridiculous notion.

Everyone has the ability to learn from someone else due to different perspectives and different learning styles.

To say you cannot learn anything from someone because they consider themselves more educated detaches yourself from reality and the ability to learn from any given situation.

Everyone has something to offer so it is important to listen and understand the perspective someone comes from.

Now in the end you maybe not agree, but at least you had the ability to learn how someone else might think and view a situation and have a healthy conversation.

There is no dialogue in training anymore. It’s “I know more” or “I would never train that way so I must be better”. No one has their ears open anymore and the only thing that suffers are the dogs.

Listen more, talk less

No one gets to tell you how to raise your dog. If your dog is thriving outside and inside and everywhere in between, why...
12/06/2024

No one gets to tell you how to raise your dog.

If your dog is thriving outside and inside and everywhere in between, why are you letting people tell you how to raise and care for your dog.

You know your dog better than anyone else. You know their needs and their personality. Captain Karen on Facebook then comments ‘you’re abusing your dog’ when clearly your dog is happy then you don’t need to listen to them.

I don’t care about how you train your dog as long as the dog thrives. You can train them force free, positive only, balanced and whatever you want to call it. The priority is the happiness and overall welfare of your pet.

The people that are not truly invested in the dogs well being are the people who see a happy dog, then hear about how you train them and then say you’re abusing the dog.

If the welfare of the dog is the most important thing then the way they’re trained is irrelevant. If the way they’re trained overpowers the welfare of the dog then they don’t care about the welfare of the dog, just their personal feelings and motives.

Dogs are not being treated like dogsIt’s unbelievable that I have to type this. Your dog is a dog. It’s not a human. It’...
07/06/2024

Dogs are not being treated like dogs

It’s unbelievable that I have to type this. Your dog is a dog. It’s not a human. It’s a dog. It has different needs to us. We are not the same.

We have spent 40,000 years selectively breeding dogs for specific purposes in specific environments. Only over the last 100 years have people now started to want just a chill sofa dog that isn’t going to do a lot.

No wonder we have so many behavioural problems when people are getting Border Collies and not providing an outlet for their genetics.

Dogs need to be provided with the needs they were bred for. It is selfish to want your dog to do what you want without providing anything back in return.

As much as you think they’re your child or you’re a pawrent, it is essential that you still treat your dog as such in order to give them the best life possible.

This means providing structure, discipline, fulfilment as well as the cuddles you want. You don’t get to give the love and cuddles without the boring stuff that comes with it.

I say this all the time it’s one of the phrases I say constantly. A job does not mean sending your dog off to work out i...
29/05/2024

I say this all the time it’s one of the phrases I say constantly.

A job does not mean sending your dog off to work out in a field. It means you give instructions to your dog to concentrate on. That can mean a sit stay, a duration place command or even just lying down wherever they are.

Giving a job just means giving your dog something to do. Dogs without instruction and that are not in learning and listening mode, go into freelance and choose their own jobs to occupy themselves.

This usually results in bratty, destructive and sometimes even dangerous behaviours that they just like doing. It can also send them into an anxious and insecure mindset if they lack the direction needed to build their confidence.

Give your dog instructions, give them direction, and they will become your employee and not open up a rival business on your own patch.

Big question that most owners ask. Essentially if you can get your dog off the sofa when you ask and they have no behavi...
24/05/2024

Big question that most owners ask.

Essentially if you can get your dog off the sofa when you ask and they have no behavioural issues then absolutely they can come up and snuggle.

Privileges are earned, and being next to us on the sofa where our scent is the strongest is a privilege. If they cannot use that privilege properly then they don’t get it.

I’m all about removing areas of conflict before they spiral into something else or something more serious.

This does not mean they can’t have the sofa time back, it just means you have some work to do before they are back up there.

Your responsibility is to your dog and not anyone else’s feelings. People will try to make you feel bad. It’s not your j...
17/05/2024

Your responsibility is to your dog and not anyone else’s feelings.

People will try to make you feel bad. It’s not your job to fulfil their dogs needs with interactions with your dogs. If you need to hold their dog at a distance to keep your dog safe then that is what you must do.

Advocate for your dog.

There is nothing beneficial to meeting strange dogs you may never meet again. Your dog SHOULD have regular dog friends that have similar play styles and communication systems that involve boundary setting and neutrality.

Do what is right by your dog. Trust in your relationship will fall dramatically if you routinely put your dog in a position they aren’t comfortable with. Don’t do it

Respect your dog

A dog that is truly not motivated by food is unwell and needs to be seen by a vet immediately.It is against any animals ...
03/05/2024

A dog that is truly not motivated by food is unwell and needs to be seen by a vet immediately.

It is against any animals nature to starve themselves. The ones that do are unwell.

What your dog is actually telling you is that they are not motivated to work for food as reinforcement. Reinforcement being the key aspect of the sentence. In order for you to use food effectively they have to be driven to work and earn it.

Ways you can build food drive include:

Removing other treats and scraps during the day. Stopping food based enrichment. Stop free feeding. Reduce the amount of food being fed to put them in a calorie deficit, promoting weight loss also. Reduced opportunities for eating.

If you want to work with treats and not with a daily food allowance, that is your choice, but the calorie intact from treats better be accommodated in the reducing meal sizes to go with it.

If your dog eats, it’s motivated by food for survival. Tap in to the necessity of food for survival and watch the drive for food as reinforcement build.

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