Level Up Dog Training

05/08/2024

If it’s too hot outside try these activities inside for some good body and mind stimulation 🐶🐶

07/07/2024

Very excited to announce my adoption of Mazikeen!

Mazikeen is a 9mo old Belgium Malinois. She has not had the best start to life and was crated or out in an outdoor run most of her life. She has extreme separation anxiety, doesn’t know a single basic command, is not potty trained, and has severe stranger danger. In spite of all she’s been through and all of her current issues she is still sweet as pie and is so goofy. She loves our three pitties and our brand new 4 month old baby girl (human baby). I’m very excited to show case her current training level and her progress over the next few months!

14/06/2024

Let's talk about this photo. It's cute, except it's not. I see a dog who cannot get up without telling the child to get off. How do you think a dog is going to do that?

The 7 Golden Toddler Dog Rules:
#1: If a dog walks away from you, you DO NOT FOLLOW.
#2: Always leave room for the dog to walk away from you.
---that right there is 90+% of dog bites eliminated---
#3: We do not climb on the dog.
#4: We do not grab or pull on the dog.
#5: We do not hit or throw anything at the dog.
#6: We do not touch the dog's food.
#7: We do not go into the dog's kennel.

I promise these are not overly difficult concepts for littles, nor will they rob a kid of their bond with the family dog. It will deepen that bond, while keeping everyone safe.

"Oh, it looks like Moose is walking away from you. She is saying she wants a break. Let's play with this instead!"

"It's Moose's dinner time! Let's give her space to enjoy her yummies."

"That is Moose's room(kennel) and only she is allowed to go in there."

"If Moose wanted a break, could she walk away from you right now? No she really couldn't. Let's move away from the play house. You can keep playing but now she can leave when she wants a break."

In conclusion, ***parent your child or your dog will do it for you, and you will not like how they do it.***

18/05/2024

What is “NePoPo” and why am I talking about it?

The reason I am talking about it is because this is the training style that I use on all the dogs I train. It’s a very universal technique and has helped me train many dogs over the years. This style of training is very easy to mold to fit each dog’s needs as an individual, not a general group.

Now we can get into the “what” part of the question:

The "Nepopo" dog training technique, also known as "Negative-positive-positive," involves a three-step process:

1. **Negative Interrupter:** This step involves using a neutral sound or word to interrupt unwanted behavior. It's not punitive but rather serves to redirect the dog's attention away from the undesirable action. For example, saying "eh-eh" or using a gentle clap to stop a dog from jumping up on furniture.

2. **Positive Reinforcement:** Once the unwanted behavior is interrupted, immediately redirect the dog to a desired behavior and reward them for complying. This could involve giving treats, praise, or toys when the dog responds appropriately.

3. **Consistency:** Consistency is key to the Nepopo technique. Reinforce desired behaviors consistently and promptly interrupt unwanted behaviors every time they occur. This helps the dog understand what is expected of them and encourages them to repeat desirable actions.

Overall, the Nepopo technique emphasizes a balanced approach to training, using both negative interrupters and positive reinforcement to guide the dog towards appropriate behavior while maintaining a respectful and positive relationship between the dog and owner.

17/05/2024

If you have recently rescued a dog or are thinking about rescuing a dog and would like to get them trained please reach out I’d love to help!🐶🐾

(Must have proof of where your dog came from to get the discount)

17/05/2024

🐾 Attention, dog lovers! 🐾

Thinking about letting your furry friend free roam the house? Here are some tips to ensure a smooth transition:

1. **Gradual Introduction:** Start by allowing short periods of freedom while you're home to supervise. Slowly increase the time as your dog demonstrates responsible behavior.

2. **Proofing the Environment:** Remove any potential hazards or temptations that could lead to mischief. This includes securing trash cans, hiding electrical cords, and keeping valuable items out of reach.

3. **Exercise and Mental Stimulation:** A tired dog is a well-behaved dog! Ensure your pup gets enough physical exercise and mental stimulation to prevent boredom and destructive behavior.

4. **Positive Reinforcement:** Reward good behavior with praise, treats, or playtime. Positive reinforcement strengthens the bond between you and your dog and encourages desirable habits.

Remember, every dog is unique, so be patient and consistent in your training efforts. With time and effort, your pup can become a responsible and happy member of your household! 🏡🐶

15/05/2024

👹Is your puppy nipping when playing? Are you trying to figure out how to stop them?👹

Here’s a few ways to teach a puppy not to play bite:

1. **Redirect Attention**: When your puppy starts to play bite, redirect their attention to a chew toy

2. **Yelping**: Mimic the sound of a yelp when your puppy bites too hard to imitate how another puppy would react.

3. **Timeouts**: When your puppy bites, calmly and gently remove yourself from their presence for a short time.

4. **Consistency**: Be consistent in your responses to biting behavior, so your puppy understands that it's never acceptable.

5. **Socialization**: Allow your puppy to interact with other dogs to learn proper play behavior from them.
( This does not mean let them have a free for all play at a dog park/doggy daycare. Have a one on one play date with a friend or family members dog instead. )

6. **Training Commands**: Teach your puppy basic commands like "off” and "leave it" to teach them human body parts are not to be in a dogs mouth.

7. **Provide Plenty of Exercise**: A tired puppy is less likely to engage in rough play or biting behavior.

8.**Provide Plenty of Mental Stimulation**: Mental stimulation helps to tire them out and redirect their energy towards constructive activities. When puppies engage in mental stimulation through training exercises, puzzle toys, or interactive games, they become mentally tired, which can reduce their inclination to engage in excessive biting.

9. **Avoid Rough Play**: Refrain from engaging in rough play with your puppy, as it can encourage biting.

10. **Consult a Professional**: If the biting behavior persists or becomes aggressive, seek guidance from a professional dog trainer or behaviorist. Level Up Dog Training is here to help! If you can’t get your puppy to stop play biting and or they get worse/aggressive with it please contact us and we will get your puppy to stop biting!

14/05/2024

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06/05/2024

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Don't miss out on this pawsome opportunity to level up your doodle's skills. Book your spot today! 🐾

15/12/2023

If any of my past clients need their pups nails trimmed before the holidays I’ll be offering them this Sunday from 11am-4pm at EarthWise Pet Mantua ! Address is 661 bridgeton pike mantua, NJ. Any pets are welcome so if you have other pets feel free to bring them as well!💅

Here are our next nail trimming clinic dates! All pets are welcome, dogs, cats, reptiles, birds, rabbits, ferrets, guinea pigs, etc!

*Payments are not through the store register*
Please bring cash or Amanda also accepts payment through venmo, cashapp, and paypal!

We hope to see all your furbabies come in to get their PAWdicures done!

When: Sunday the 10th & 17th
Where: Earthwise Pet in Mantua, 661 Bridgeton Pike, Mantua, NJ 08051

30/11/2023

I don’t normally share posts unrelated to dogs, but this rescue is absolutely fantastic and also helps a lot of dogs as well as livestock and other pets. Please help if you can!

💥URGENT RESCUE💥

Triple7 Rescue and Rehab is working very hard to get this girl into their facility where she will be safe and given proper care and attention! They are still in need of $500 please donate if you can! Anything helps!

🚨URGENT RESCUE🚨

Our friend Caitlin over at Rancho Relaxo sent us this screenshot of this senior pregnant mini mare.

As you can see in the caption she is going to need a rescue that has the facility and the experience to take her in and provide her the lifelong home that she will need, irregardless of her behavioral issues. It’s heartbreaking to see how she has been let down by her previous humans over the past few decades.

Can we raise $2,000 to give her a home for the holidays!? This will cover her initial bail, quarantine, feed, and vetting. EOTL is fairly sure she is pregnant and we will need the vet out as soon as possible to assess that and come up with a game plan given her age.

This giving Tuesday there is no better gift for this pony than giving her a safe home to live in for the rest of her years ❤️

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23/11/2023

Happy Thanksgiving Week, everybody!

I have a ‼️HUGE‼️ but SMALL favor to ask.
Please go to my business page Level Up Dog Training

Hit the 3 little dots on the side of page, click “invite friends.” Select "invite all" & you’re done!

You've SUCCESSFULLY supported my Small Business for $0.00

Thank you for supporting a small and local business in your community! Thank you to everyone who has already invited their friends! I couldn’t do this without you all!!

14/11/2023

Is your dog headed to getting coal this year from Santa? Let me help you change that!

From now until January 1st I am offering 50% off my Basic Training packages. If your dog (or dogs) jump all over guests when they arrive, counter surf during meal prep, beg at the dinner table, and are otherwise not very well behaved around your family and guests this deal will work for you!

If you are interested in starting lessons or have more questions please reach out via messenger, text, or call. You can message this page or contact this number 609-576-3618 anytime!

I look forward to helping your pups go from coal to presents this Christmas season!🎄🎁🐶

22/10/2023

Super fun event happening at my other job today! Bring your fantastic pups for a costume party at 1:30pm and then get some super awesome deals on toys, treats, and food! As well as possibly win some prizes!🐶🐶

Stop in for some great fun for the whole family! Sunday 12 to 4. Please share this post we would really appreciate it and thank you in advance! 😊

17/09/2023

Always hydrate dry kibble!!🐶

HYDRATION 💦

Hydrating your dog is something so simple but it's actually so overlooked and most people don't think about hydrating when it comes to meal times.

If your dog is eating a kibble diet, they are more prone to dehydration. This is because the dry kibble requires moisture for digestion. When your dog is not adequately hydrated, the body pulls water from the internal organs to digest the kibble and this can lead to the state of mild dehydration. Even if they are drinking throughout the day, the digestion process pulls water from their system after eating.

One of the best and easiest thing you can do as a kibble feeder is HYDRATE YOUR DOGS FOOD!

Adding water to kibble softens it for digestion and hydrates your dog's body systems.

Great options to hydrate kibble include
💧Filtered Water
💧Coconut Water
💧Bone Broth
💧Goat's Milk
💧Decaffeinated Green Tea (aids in cancer prevention)

Quick Tip - you can freeze all of the above in trays or silicone molds and then pop out a cube or two and melt with hot water at meal time!

*Always give your dog access to fresh water at all times

*Always rest your dog after eating any meal. Never exercise your dog immediately after eating due to risk of bloat

13/07/2023

All of this, except littermate syndrome is a real thing and causes a lot of issues with the puppies even if they are not from the same litter. They just have to be the same age or within 6months of each other (this does not apply to dogs over 2yrs old). Please stick to just one puppy at a time unless you can absolutely make time for each individual puppy to have one on one time with you every single day, multiple times a day. Especially if you are rescuing these puppies you don’t want to have to return one or both because they now have severe anxiety or aggressive behaviors due to littermate syndrome

1370 likes, 81 comments. “This is a PSA 🗣️ Not only should you NOT get two puppies at the same time. You should also WAIT until the dog you have is better trained and listening the way you want before adding another dog or puppy. Have you ever raised two puppies at the same time?? Tell me! .....

13/07/2023

Never use blazer pointers with dogs! If you have cats put the dog(s) in a covered crate or in another room

30/06/2023

I’m hosting a nail trimming clinic! If you need your pets nails trimmed come on by! Earthwise Pet in Mantua from 11am to 2pm!! Cash, Venmo, or cashapp for payments. $15 per pet!🐾

We are having our second nail trimming clinic tomorrow!! 11am-2pm! Any animals are welcome so come on by!🐾

27/06/2023

I’ve personally worked with this dog and she is absolutely amazing. She does need slow introductions with new dogs as she can be a little weary of new dogs but she is a super fast learner and wants to please! She’s such a love bug too! If you’re looking for a dog please adopt her!!

25/06/2023

ALWAYS ask before you pet someone’s dog. Don’t start reaching to pet as you’re asking. Don’t pet and then ask. Ask first, get an answer, and then pet if the answer is yes. All dogs deserve to be able to live happy, fun filled, adventurous lives even if they don’t like other people or other dogs or both. So just because a dog is out and about DO NOT assume you can pet them!

16/06/2023

When dogs sniff it’s like us scrolling through our social media. Let them sniff when as much as they want as long as it is safe to do so🐶

15/06/2023

They haven’t all been abused. Some of them? Probably, but not all. Most of them just need training, stability, confidence, and consistency.

"He's afraid of X, so he must have been abused by/with X."

In rescue, a lot of dogs come into care with unknown histories. Many of these dogs present with specific or generalized fear and anxiety.

It can be easy - so, SO easy - to attach a story to their behaviour. In fact, it's becoming increasingly common for people to adopt dogs BECAUSE of their story. The more tragic, the better.

The problem with this is that it tends to freeze dogs into their neuroses. Their owner becomes so attached to the story, so emotionally invested, that they themselves cannot move past it. When the owner gets stuck, so does the dog.

Then the story becomes an excuse.

He's aggressive to the postman because one must have abused him.

He's leash reactive to other dogs because he was a 'bait dog'.

He runs from us when we grab the fly swat because someone has hit him with it.

In most cases, these behaviours are caused from a lack of experience in the critical period of socialization. Their inexperience can present itself as fear, anxiety, stress and aggression; mechanisms they develop over time to cope.

But what exactly caused their rescued dogs behaviour is irrelevant. It's a fools errand to try to figure it out; an addictive oxytocin-fueled quest to justify a lack of action.

He's afraid of men? Make men = good things. He runs from the fly swatter? Pick the damn thing up and throw the dog a handful of steak a few times. See what happens.

When we adopt a dog, we're making a commitment to BETTER their life. Holding on to their past is doing the opposite. Show them they're in a better place by overcoming their problems, not nurturing them.

14/06/2023

13/06/2023

What I do for you and your dog will only work if you put the time in yourself 🐾

11/06/2023

I have personally met and worked with this dog. She’s so so sweet, super smart, and easy to work with! She is dog selective so would do best in a home with male dogs or very laid back females. If you are looking to adopt please give this sweet girl a chance!

08/06/2023

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23/05/2023

Welcome, Bucky, to the Level Up family!

Bucky has been with us for a few weeks now (I’m late on posting him, sorry bud! 🤦🏼‍♀️) doing some basic training sessions. He has improved so much and he’s only halfway through his lessons! Keep up the great work, Bucky!🐶🐾