What do you think we need for one-to-one training walks? 🤔
There’s always a few things we have on our person 👉 as well as some extras in our bag for any private training session we attend.
Often the things we bring along are items we suggest dog owners carry on walks too 🦮
Some (but not all) of those items are featured in this clip.
We’re interested in what you think is needed for one-to-one training 📲 maybe you’ll even have some suggestions we haven’t thought of.
What should be in a dog trainers go-bag ⬇️⬇️
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3️⃣Reasons Why You Should Play With Your Dog
👉Play improves recall
👉Play boosts motivation
👉Play helps build a strong bond
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🤔Just as you need to give your dog direction on how to physically and mentally exercise, you need to also teach them how to physically and mentally rest.
✅You need to train your dog to have an ‘off’ switch.
👉Teaching the ‘off switch’ is an important life skill for when you are occupied, so the dog can relax and watch the world go by (for example @starbucksireland!)
🐕At our group classes we work a lot at settling especially with high energy dogs
❓Does your dog have an On/Off switch?
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❣️When we ask our dogs to stop doing something they are enjoying and recall to us it’s important that we reward them for returning so that they recall with enthusiasm every single time!
Rewards can be anything the dog finds rewarding:
👉Food
👉Play
👉Retrieves
👉Being released back to the environment
🔑The key is to identify the rewards that hold the greatest value in the dog’s mind and use it to build an elastic recall
🤨Do you always reward your dog for recalling?
Even when at home?
⚠️On the spot fine -
Dog not in effectual control - €300
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🪄✨We always refer to the magical moments in training, and this week it was magical to see how quickly the dogs settled in class!
👉 But not only that….also how focused they were once training started.
❣️Often these moments go unnoticed, but should be recognised and remembered.
❤️Well done to all our @burnsbyyourside therapy reading dog teams
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🤷🏻♀️Wondering why to teach your dog to perform a Down/Stay?
1️⃣Its a great impulse control exercise! It will be a lot harder for your dog to jump up on guests from a Down position. Asking them to Stay until they calm will allow your dog to be a polite greeter.
2️⃣We practice Down/Stays at meal times, while we are cooking, grabbing a coffee at our local spot, having a bbq or chatting to a neighbour.
3️⃣It provides the foundations for further relaxation and mat work.
👉Here we can see baby Thumper is working on a duration down stay in puppy class, being able to teach your puppy to settle in any environment is in an invaluable skill 🧡
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⛑️Your dog and livestock, wildlife and horses is your responsibility to keep everyone safe.
👩🏻🏫Training your dog to be calm and to respond to you around livestock, wildlife and horses can make rural walks even more enjoyable and crucially safer for everyone.
🐕Most dogs naturally want to chase or investigate animals they have not encountered before.
😳Dogs may feel nervous, curious, excited, or very fearful, which can all create problems.
👩🏻⚖️Section 9 of The Control of Dogs Act 1986 outlines specific requirements regarding keeping dogs under effectual control
👉Section 9(2) states that the owner or any other person in charge of a dog that worries livestock is guilty of an offence
👉Prosecution under Section 9 of the Act allows for a fine of up to €2,500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or both.
😱Separately, Section 21 of the Act states that the owner of a dog shall be liable for damages in a separate civil action.
⚠️Remember if it’s your dog it’s your responsibility.
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🤷🏻♀️How useful is gun dog training is in ‘real life’ ?
💦Here Milo was enjoying the water in a field when an unknown much larger dog came running .
😱No fear, the minute his handler blew the recall whistle he turned around and came running averting any potential danger.
✅Get training with a whistle right and you’ll have a well behaved dog that knows how to react to key situations.
😙If your dog is already trained to a known voice cue you can switch quite quickly to the whistle by giving the whistle cue followed by the voice cue over a period of a few days, then gradually fading out the voice cue .
🧐I think you will find that it is well worth the bother of doing this, even with a pet dog!
❤️Have fun with your whistle training!
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🤷🏻♀️How useful is gun dog training is in ‘real life’ ?
💦Here Milo was enjoying the water in a field when an unknown much larger dog came running towards him
😱No fear, the minute his handler blew the recall whistle he turned around and came sprinting averting any potential danger.
✅Get training with a whistle right and you’ll have a well behaved dog that knows how to react to key situations.
😙If your dog is already trained to a known voice cue you can switch quite quickly to the whistle by giving the whistle cue followed by the voice cue over a period of a few days, then gradually fading out the voice cue .
🧐I think you will find that it is well worth the bother of doing this, even with a pet dog!
❤️Have fun with your whistle training!
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🇮🇪Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh go léir ☘️
🧡St. Patrick’s Day is a day to celebrate our green heritage. The ancestry of Ireland. It is a day to celebrate what it means to be Irish and of Irish descent.
Have a wonderful day ☘️
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⭐️The Importance of Training Steadiness
🤷🏻♀️Whether you want your dog to be an expert in the field or simply a well-behaved family member
💯There are many reasons to train a dog to remain steady:
👉flushing birds
👉chasing wildlife
👉safety
👉reducing household chaos
😩It absolutely goes against a dog’s natural inclination to chase and catch prey.
🧐Which means the question of steadiness is an important consideration in your training plan
🫤Dogs are rarely steady without some training!
😌With the proper training, your dog can learn to remain calm and focused in the face of potential distractions
❤️This can be an invaluable skill for hunting dogs, working dogs and especially family pets!
Gun-dog training @Cork Showgrounds each Sunday
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🛑The stop whistle is the brake on your dog
👉When you use that single sharp blast your dog needs to respond to it immediately!
They need to stop
❌Running
❌Hunting
❌Chasing
Preferably
✅Spin round to look at you
✅Ready to respond to the next cue
⏳Teaching the stop whistle needs time and attention. You may just stop your dog from heading towards a potentially dangerous situation!
✨Remember to make the stop whistle a good thing!!
Always reward 🧡
Learn more at our Pet Gundog Training Classes & Workshops at the Cork Showgrounds each Sunday.
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🤔A great deal of heel work can be counterproductive to the intense, rapid and stylish hunting patterns of our spaniels
✅An earlier start to heel work is often advantageous but…..
‼️it can be extremely difficult and frustrating for spaniel owners when we don’t allow them to engage in their breed typical needs
👉Ensuring that your spaniel explores keenly, before introducing heelwork will not only build up confidence but engagement with you as well!
⭐️To get the best out of your gun-dog, training needs to make use of their natural desires. Begin each session with:
1️⃣A few hunting retrieves in your garden, park or field
2️⃣Follow with heel work
3️⃣Include other foundation basics
🥰Finish with an easy task and end on a high. It will make you both feel good and help your dog to begin the next session in the same joyful mood🧡
❣️Remember, You do not have to participate in field trials to get the benefits of gun dog training.
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⭐️Joyful enthusiasm must take priority for any retrieve
🙅🏻♀️Without it, there is no retrieve!
Creating a retrieving corridor can be a great way to have fun with your dog on bad weather days but also for practicing
👉steadiness
👉the outrun
👉the pick up
👉the return/recall
👉the delivery
✅Practicing having fun retrieves with your dog incorporates all the components together in one neat parcel
👉If you don’t have a suitable hallway in your house, set a corridor up in your garden using a wall or fence as one side, and a temporary barrier as the other.
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That’s a wrap 🎁 on Santa Paws at the C.S.P.C.A - Official ! What a phenomenal weekend, delivered by the staff and all the amazing volunteers 🫶 all the stops were really pulled out this year! We’re keeping everything crossed that some of the dogs may get some adoption applications out of this 🤞But if nothing else, they had a very novel day with heaps of social and sensory enrichment 🧡 Well done to everyone involved behind the scenes 🙌 it was a wonderful event! #rescuedogsrule #rescuedogsarethebestdogs #rescuedogsrock #rescuedogsofig #dogshelter #dogsofcork #corksmallbusiness #corkdogs #corkcity #ballincolligregionalpark #corkireland #garryduffwoods #discovercork #dogfriendlycork #douglascork #irishdogsofinstagram #irishdogs #corksredfm #cspca #corkireland
Huge congratulations to all our graduates today 🥳
Each of our teams passed their bronze level pet gundog course!
It’s been a great 5 weeks of training 👉 we’ll see you all next year for our silver level!
Well done everybody 🙌
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❗️Effective from 1st December
👮🏻♀️On-the-spot fines for more serious offences under the Control of Dogs Act increase from €100 to €300.
👉This means that owners of dogs not under effectual control will incur a €300 on the spot fine
👉 As it is a legal requirement that dogs are accompanied and kept under ‘effectual control’, it is recommended to keep your dog on a lead in public spaces.
⚠️Local bye-laws on dog access apply in specific areas such as beaches or public parks.
⚠️The Control of Dogs Regulations 1998, S.I. 442/1998 set out additional requirements that owners of specific breeds of dogs, including strains or crosses of those breeds, must comply with.
For further information download our FREE Dog Law E-book
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🤦🏻♀️My dog only does it for food!
🤷🏻♀️How many times have we heard this?
⚠️You have missed a crucial step in the learning process 👉 putting a behaviour on a hand signal!
This week our life skills and gun dog group classes are learning how to build behaviours using 👋 signals
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Take training into the real world 🌎 Some of our classes homework is to take what they’ve learned and practice it in new environments 👉 so we thought we’d give it a go too. Whilst visiting Veterinary Specialists Ireland we practiced a little heelwork 🧡This is a great way of proofing those distractions! If you’re not in our support group, join in anyway, challenge your dog by asking them to do something they know 🧠 in a new place! ➡️ As always link in bio if you’d like to learn more!www.canineconnect.ie #corkbusiness #dogsofcork #corksmallbusiness #corkdogs #cork #corkcity #dublindogs #dogsofireland #ballincolligregionalpark #corkireland #garryduffwoods #discovercork #dogfriendlycork #douglascork #passagewest #carrigaline #ethicaldogtraining #donoharmdogtraining #sciencebasedtraining #forcefreedogtraining #clickertraining #positivedogtraining #gundogtraining #looseleashtraining #impulsecontrol #recall #recalltraining #retrievertraining #petgundog #petgundogtraining
Don’t they look happy? ☺️
Teaching dogs to retrieve has to be one of our favourites 🧡 really it’s just about restructuring how you play!
And just look at how engaged it gets dogs 🐕
Due to popular demand we’ve added another set of classes, check our website👇
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