Merry Christmas everyone 🤶🎄🐾
Whether it’s busy, quiet, lonely, happy, reflective, stressful, sad or wonderful.
I hope you all find some joy in the day and spoil your wonderful dogs 🐾
⭐️ Such a simple way to improve Recall! ⭐️
When we teach a dog what we call ‘Recall’, we are not teaching them HOW to come back to us( funnily enough they know how to do this already 😉) we are teaching them that it’s WORTHWHILE to come back to us.
so with that in mind, one of the most important things we need to do is build an awesome association with the Recall word or sound.
At home, grab something really tasty ( the more valuable they find the food the better the association you will be making)
Use something they don’t normally get or use your leftover food (if safe). It doesn’t have to be much, it just has to be good in their eyes!
Say the word, or make the Recall sound and literally go and hand it to them.
They do not need to come to you for this to be effective .
Yes, of course there are more parts to Recall training but this really is the simplest thing you can do to help improve your Recall outdoors.
Give it a go , but don’t forget to bring out the big guns and use the tastiest food you can find for your dog!
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Today we did some clipper training with Buddy.
It’s really important to go slowly with anything that we want our puppies to be okay with in the future, otherwise we risk a lifelong fear.
I always advise people to ‘break it down’
For nail clipping and filing this could be:
🐾 the smell of the equipment
🐾 the sight of the equipment
🐾 the sound of the equipment
🐾 the feeling of having their paws held and fiddled around with
🐾 standing on a table even
If all this is put together in one go, it can be terrifying. So today we started working on the sight of the Clippers and the noise it makes when it clips together.
getting what we call a positive conditional emotional response before we move onto the next stage is what we are looking for.
Basically, when Buddy loves each stage and can’t wait for the Clippers to do their thing again !
It sounds like I’m training Pingu though 😂🐧
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‘It wouldn’t be nearly as much fun without you’
❤️ I always love getting updates from previous clients.
Here’s Madge enjoying a fab time with her brother. This wasn’t possible for a good while last year for various reasons including Madge’s reactivity towards other dogs.
Just look at them now 🐾❤️🐾
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⭐️Resource guarding!⭐️
This is totally normal behaviour for dogs.
Protecting their ‘stuff’ comes as naturally to them as it does to us.
These three dogs all know each other well, you can see that the one dog backs off when the other one growls around the stick.
Perfectly good communication between their own species.
We shouldn’t be punishing dogs for behaviours that made them successful in survival and evolution!
💡It’s not naughty, it’s natural!
There are some situations where it’s fine to leave things be, but there are also situations where it’s advisable to follow a training plan to work on these behaviours.
You will need a qualified and experienced trainer or behaviourist to help you work through this.
Don’t try and tackle it yourself, you will likely make things worse, unfortunately.
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Not all dogs like the sound of a whistle.
Some find it quite offputting and scary.
But rather than be stuck with just words , Ollie’s mum was on a mission to find something that he would love coming back to.
Brilliant ! I will be adding these to my training kit
🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆
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How am I meant to get any work done with this adorable little boy talking to me 😂❤️
Billie the rescue dog living his best life 🐶
See you tomorrow lil fella
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It’s not too late! 🔥
Some people will have been preparing for bonfire night for weeks , getting comfy dens ready, desensitising dogs to noise, buying thunder shirts, investing in white noise machines…..
There’s a lot you can do to help your dog through this terrifying time.
You can still prepare last minute - make some of the tastiest food puzzle toys, stuff those Kongs, fill those snuffle mats, put treats in those tea towels, scatter treats in a box of recycling items, get ready with your distraction games and tricks and make bonfire night as memorable as you can, in the right way.
Block as much noise and light as you can, continuous white or brown noise can be particularly effective. (You can stream this)
You can turn the TV and radio up, but remember there’s often pauses that can let bangs through.
Don’t wait and see what your dog will be like , especially if it’s their first year or they are becoming a senior dog.
You CAN help your dog out ♥️
Look after your four legged friend, walk early and set up at home with everything you (may) need.
One last thing, please comfort them and don’t listen to anyone that talks rubbish about reinforcing fear 🫣
I wish you all a peaceful time this Fireworks season 🐾
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The magic of a simple ‘Find It’ 🪄
Get your dog good at hearing the words ‘find it’ and then a scatter of small pieces of food appearing on the floor.
Do this at home lots and then when you need it to work, it can be used in so many situations, including to release the chocolate milkshake! 🍫
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⭐️ Simple way to change dog behaviour ⭐️
Catch them in the act… of being good!
Instead of waiting until they do something that you don’t want and then trying to stop them , let them know when they do something that you DO want!
It goes like this ….
🐾 have tasty treats on hand, at home or outdoors
🐾 keep an eye on your dog
🐾 as soon as they do a behaviour you would like them to do more, say ‘yes’ and reward them
🐾 be ready to notice when they try this behaviour out again, say ‘yes’ and reward
🐾 move onto mixing up the rewards, sometimes food sometimes praise sometimes play - as long as it’s something that your dog really likes, it will keep this behaviour alive!
Here you can see noodle deciding to sit down for a moment , I mark the exact time her bum hits the floor with ‘yes’, and then I reward her.
This is called ‘capturing’ in dog training.
SIMPLE 🐾
You can capture all sorts of funny behaviours using this technique. This is how I taught Noodle to speak (woof on cue) and to put her paws over her eyes when I say ‘who’s shy’ 🙈
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