Loose lead walking - first session today. Working on rewarding the engagement with the owner and a focus game “touch”
Recall session today with Freya working on relationship building, circuit recall and a focus game “look at me”
Week two of poppy class last night! Working on increasing the difficulty of the Boundry, luring and a hand touch
The lovely Rex… some lovely loose lead walking here. Rex likes to be vocal when he sees another dog but here, I’m walking behind him with my dog and he’s regulating his emotions beautifully. 😍 super pleased with this boy and his owner 🐾
Bonnie doing some lovely parallel walking and being able to regulate herself without the need to react. Lots of work still needed for the sight of bigger dogs. But she’s progressing beautifully 🐾💖
Our first session of loose lead walking for this excitable boy, working on rewarding his engagement with his owners and creating value in proximity.
Lovely progress from paddy! He’s gone from barking every time he sees a dog, to now managing to regulate his emotions when seeing multiple dogs and also slowly closing the distance so he can walk next to dogs without a reaction. Now to try him with a larger size dog after a few more weeks of work 🐾
Skye - bounce back recall
The beautiful Skye practicing bounce back recall with her owner 🐾
Charlie practicing ping pong recall
Recall week at puppy class! This boy Charlie was so nervous on his first week! Not look at him learning the basics of recall 🐾
Starting noise desensitisation with little Mindy 🐾
Week 2 of puppy class = more confident puppies! 🐾
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Fantastic progress for Paddy yesterday - this is the closest he has managed to get to a dog without a reaction.
He looked and acknowledged the dog but the disengaged and he then re gained focus on his owner.
Still a long way to go but great progress for the little time we have been training!
Infinity walk!
My favourite game to play to help re engage our dogs and help them focus on the handler!
Here paddy and Lisa managed to keep that engagement and paddy even managed to disengage from 2 dogs without any reaction.
Brilliant progress again this week. 💙
Fantastic progress for bonnie today - here Lisa is rewarding bonnie for choosing to engaging with her.
Normally at this part she is fixating and reacting to a neighbours house where dogs are barking and running at the gate.
Bonnie managed to keep focus on her owner the whole way across.
A fantastic step towards reaching our end goal. 💖
Week 4 of puppy class - loose lead walking! Millie is a ⭐️ pupil - luring into a heel position 🐾
Kyra being lured into a heel position in this weeks puppy class! 🐾
