“You don’t decide what’s rewarding for your dog, be observant and they will tell you” - @trainlikeivan
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We take this very seriously! 😉 make to training on the 14th of Jan so make sure you get intouch
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Zummy Update
I’m terrible at posting videos on social media. Sometimes I’m good about it, then five dogs come and go, and I realize I haven’t posted anything.
But I thought I’d give a little update on how Zummy is doing. I’m super stoked with his progress, and we’ll resume more 1-on-1 sessions with his owners in the new year to make sure we stay on top of things.
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Zummy Update
I’m terrible at posting videos on social media. Sometimes I’m good about it, then five dogs come and go, and I realize I haven’t posted anything.
But I thought I’d give a little update on how Zummy is doing. I’m super stoked with his progress, and we’ll resume more 1-on-1 sessions with his owners in the new year to make sure we stay on top of things.
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A little Levi update. We are by no means finished training. But we are progressing really really nicely.
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American Bulldog vs Shepherd.
What a pissing contest looks like in the dog world… 🙈
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This big guys starting his board and train today. Here is a tinny clip from our first assessment a few weeks ago.
In for human and dog aggression issues, we have a long road ahead. But looking forward to the journey.
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We also have Levi in for some training. I really do feel for his owners as I will be their 3rd trainer, and they have tried so much to try get on top of things with Levi.
We are gonna take a different route to what has been tried, and I’m very hopeful we can see some great progress.
I have worked with about 5 + different German shepherds from this breeder and they are all very similar, high drive, low threshold for frustration and often don’t make good pet dogs for the average owner.
Looking forward to getting stuck in, but we do have a lot of work to do!
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Did you know positive reinforcement can easily create suppression?
Did you know positive reinforcement can easily create suppression?
This is something I learned the hard way with Mia. She is a pretty low-drive dog, so it manifested itself even more than if I had, say, a Malinois, where a degree of suppression for many people wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.
But for her, it was really gutting, particularly because I was following everything all the “top trainers” were selling, and after all, their Malinois could do it.
I followed and bought many different training programs on heeling to try to teach her how to do a nice obedience heel, doing all my foundations like a good boy, making sure she had a “strong muscle memory,” and ensuring she received nothing but positive reinforcement so that she would love it.
Well, man, was I wrong, and I sure did waste a lot of time and money. The more training I did, the less attitude she had. She was getting more and more locked up.
She would do the things, but her tail was low, and I could tell she just wasn’t loving it. (Again, no pressure in the training was used at all.)
I then reached out to a pretty well-known trainer and paid for a Zoom session, which really didn’t help as it was pretty much just the same stuff regurgitated.
Then I started to dive into Ivan Balabanov work, and that’s when I began to learn truly about play, the power of negative reinforcement and the importance of attaching an emotion to a behaviour (not just the behaviour itself).
This is why I recommend his Cornerstone collection to everyone and believe in it so much. Which can be found on the Training Without Conflict website.
(That’s if you don’t the money for his course, which is just on a different level again and I do recommend saving up to do the TWC course as the above videos are included but they’re about 5% of the depth of his course)
Anyway! man, it was mind-blowing—the difference in her attitude and desire is night and day. We ditched the cookies and focused our
Man, what a journey.
Cyrus, you have taught me a lot. He has been the most extreme fear case I’ve worked with to date, and at times I really struggled to see the light at the end of the tunnel. At points, I thought, “There is no way I can get this dog to play with me; it just isn’t happening.” I even questioned if I was ever going to be able to get him to lie down in public or deal with me clapping (as the first time I clapped, he literally—not metaphorically—pooped himself and the moment you go to a new location he would often poo himself ).
I have learned to trust the journey, and sometimes things just take longer than we had expected (10 weeks).
With me, I have got him to a very livable place. I know his limits, and he trusts me not to push them too often. He won’t ever be a take-to-the-city-for-a-street-walk sort of dog and will always have a flight reflex in certain contexts, so a degree of management will always be needed. But, we can live a really cool life, and he can have plenty of joyful moments.
While the hard part is not done, we now have to try to transfer this to Mum and Dad, which will take some time as there is a lot of trust and leadership that has to be rebuilt. But for now, I’m just enjoying reflecting on the journey.
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I don’t post really any videos of my dogs’ training, as when I train my dogs, it is really for me and them. It’s something super special that we do together. But I want to encourage you to train with your dog; it’s about collaborating, growing, and working together.
Have fun, train something, and make sure it taps into your dog’s genetic desires. Dedicating time to work together to build something fun and cool is priceless and done right is just fun for all involved.
This is my young dog Janet, we muck around with a few different things.
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This is a clip from Nova’s first heeling/loose leash walking session.
It looks pretty different from how most teach it 😉
No sticking to the driveway, going left, going right until the dog is so bored out of their brains that they don't even want to go on a walk anymore…
Some struggle to get their dogs to walk with them, others can easily get their dogs to walk with them but then their dogs lose the confidence to be away from their handler (we call this a sticky dog, and it is often created via handler error)
Good training should be able to give you both.
A dog that can work and be free away from you without conflict and a dog who can calmly be with you without conflict.
I would rather see a dog who doesn't walk on a loose leash than a dog who is stuck behind you unable to leave even you were to tell them it was ok to leave.
But ultimately, with smart training, the right tools and techniques we really can easily have both.
And that is what we always are aiming for. Confidence when independent, and confidence when in behaviour (heeling)
A lot of this boils down to clarity and how predictable the human is holding the leash.
Watch this space and we will uploading more videos in a few weeks when we have her heeling down to a T 😉
