Woody is doing SO well!!! ❤️❤️
A little rescue pup who wouldn't come near me when we started.
He wouldn't put his paws on anything or explore boxes or novel items. He struggled to follow food in your hand too.
Here he is learning a paws up...doing all the things he wasn't able to a few weeks ago.🥳💪🏼
🐾Paws up🐾
✔️ A great little conversation starter to get your dog's head in the right place for training.
✔️It's a great emotional checker - if they know and love it well but can't offer it in certain environments, it gives you an indication that they're struggling.
✔️ Paws on = means we can teach paws OFF!
✔️ Great to start teaching some paw targeting
✔️ Can use with lots of novel items to build confidence and optimism
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Why is confidence and optimism important to a puppy?
⭐ Builds resilience
💪🏼 Helps them relax in new and different environments
🥳 Less likely to be reactive
🫶🏼 Become more independent
❤️ Encourages flexibility (adapting to different situations)
👍🏼 They choose calmness over fear or over excitement
✨ Gives them the skills to encounter new environments, new dogs, new people, new situations with a positive outlook
🥰 Results in a happy, calm, content adult dog that makes good choices
Teaching a puppy that anything novel, in this scenario a bucket with balls, bubble wrap, things that move, cardboard to go into and under etc ...isn't anything to worry about will build confidence....especially important for nervous pups!
The more novelty has a good outcome (nothing bad happens and they get rewarded) the more optimistic they'll become. I.e. They'll encounter novelty with good expectations.
Built steadily, this will also aid socialisation.
A confident, optimistic puppy is a happy, calm puppy! 💞💞
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Ernie was a reluctant recaller to say the least! 🤣🤦🏼♀️Running off on a scent or those pesky squirrels a d it could take 5, 10, 20 minutes to get him back 😱
So we taught a verbal recall and it was successful to an old degree. But in our book, just 'ok' doesn't cut it.
So we conditioned a whistle recall instead, making it something of crazy value to Ernie.
Result? Real-life recall the way we like it!! 🥳💪🏼
Recalling him off his favourite treats and now we'll build it and proof with more and more distraction until it's bomb proof....or should we say, 🐿️ squirrel proof!!!
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For the man who never wanted a dog and ended up with two 🤣🤣 Happy international dog day. Part of the family ❤️❤️❤️#internationaldogday #cockerspaniel #dogtrainer
Merry Christmas ⛄🎁🎄🧑🏻🎄✝️
