How to use a water spray bottle to train your dog.
What does your dog find reinforcing? Comment below.
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It’s polling day, remember to take water out with you, and have treats or toys to reward your dog if this is a new experience.
However, don’t take your dog if they are not going to enjoy it. Leave them at home, don’t tie them outside, and let them rest.
Are you taking your dog with you? #dogsatpollingstations
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Avoid this number one mistake new puppy owners make.
When you go to a green space or park, stay off the paths. You will have no control over what comes your way and your puppy, on a lead will either want to jump on everything and get super excited, or will get worried about the fact they can’t get away.
This will lead to your dog potentially becoming reactive. The excited dogs will start to get frustrated and could start barking at everything they can’t get to. The worried dogs will enjoy the places less and less, lose confidence on the lead and will use behaviours like barking to get space away from everything.
Stay off the paths, go to quiet areas and play, train, explore and watch everything. Then you can decide what your pup goes to interact with, and as they get better you can return to the paths.
PATHS ARE NOT FOR PUPPIES! Let’s hear it in the back.
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What your young dog is doing now may not currently be a problem, but it might turn into one of you don’t make some changes.
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Let us know on the comments what you think about these puppies playing.
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Should you let your dog drink from public water bowls? Leave a comment and let us know.
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We are so excited to have a second amazing venue for dog training in North London. So much space, indoor and outdoor. Highgate, here we come.
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What a weekend.
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Do you have a multi dog household? This might help.
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Why am I holding squeaky squirrel toys?
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The Hunting Game is just one thing we teach in our upcoming recall workshop - www.lukesdogschool.co.uk/workshops.
Teaching your dog you are the top hunter and to come running when you find the good stuff.
- Have some high value food hidden away in your hand.
- Walk around a low distracting environment, then pretend you have found something on the floor, point down towards it and say “Wow, What’s This!”.
- When your dog comes over just discretely drop a piece of food out your hand as if you found them on the floor.
- Once they are eating it just move away and go hunting again.
- Don’t worry how close they are to you, just keep hunting. And don’t repeat your words too often.
- Your dog will start to realise how great a hunter you are and want to keep an ear out for when you have found more things and come running over.
The beauty of this game is that we are not asking them to come over, we are simply letting them know we have found something amazing and they would be an idiot to not get involved. I find touching the ground as they come over makes this more effective. Then slowly move into more distracting environments. This teaches them to be able to respond to you and want to interact with you within that environment.
Again, you can use toys as they come over, but I find this game works best with food.
Let’s us know how you get on in the comments.
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What is the bounce back game?
Very simply, when your dog is near you you throw a piece of food away, when they bounce back towards you, mark with “Good / Yes” and throw again.
Why do it?
Increases engagement with your dog, teaches them being close to you is rewarding, is a form of play, great for lowering stress.
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Protect your dog. What do we mean?
There are people out there who want to say hello to your dog or feed them, or potentially hurt them. We need to step up and learn to protect our dogs.
Put them into middle, or behind you, step out in front early and tell them to stop. People need to learn they can’t do what they like with your dog.
If you don’t advocate for them, who will……
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Do this one thing to build engagement with your dog when outside.
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Amazing to see what progress can be made with a bit of training everyday. Remember, if you fulfil your dogs needs to hey have less reason to keep running off or pull on the lead.
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Merry Christmas and hope you and your four legged friends are having a great day.
Our traditional Christmas message is to let everyone working today in dog rescue that we are thinking of you. You are all heroes and are not forgotten. You are doing tremendous work and the dogs are very thankful for it.
So grab a mince pie, sit by the fire on your breaks and know that we are thinking of you, and we hope you have a fantastic day.
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How good is your dogs recall? Here Pushkin goes out after a toy I’ve thrown and then comes back when called before reaching it.
To grow skills like this and more check out our classes and workshops following the link in our bio.
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Warning! Dog Bite.
In this clip you will see a woman approach a dog and try to hug it. The dog snaps a warning and the owner also says to stop. The woman comes in again and gets bitten. Simple steps could have avoided this.
Step 1. Always ask the owner first if it’s ok to greet the dog. If they say no or hesitate then leave the dog alone.
Step 2. If they say yes, crouch down side on to the dog 1-2 metres away and call the dog over, if they don’t come then leave them alone.
Step 3. If they come over then stroke them under the chin or on the chest, calmly, not over the head.
Step 4. Pause after 5-10 seconds and see if they want move or if they move away.
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Today is #internationalmensday and it is a great time to think about the benefits a dog can have on one’s health.
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