Foundation behaviors, like the down stay, are key to a well-trained dog! 🐾 As dogs do not generalise well, practicing these skills in different locations helps your pup understand that ‘down’ means the same thing whether at home, the park, or on a walk. Here’s Nemo and Hana showing off their down stay during our walk today—proving that consistency pays off! 🌟
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🐾 The Power of the Nose Touch! 🐾
Teaching your dog a nose touch (where they touch your hand with their nose) is a simple yet super useful skill! 🌟 Here are a few reasons why it’s a game-changer:
1️⃣ **Helps with Focus**: It encourages your dog to pay attention to you, even in distracting environments.
2️⃣ **Foundation for More Complex Skills**: Whether it’s agility, tricks, obedience or even service dog work, a nose touch can lead to more advanced commands.
3️⃣ **Great for Targeting**: Need your pup to press a button or close a door? The nose touch is a perfect starting point!
4️⃣ **Improves Recall**: It’s fantastic for long-distance recall—your dog will have a specific action to aim for, which makes coming back to you even more exciting!
5️⃣ **Positive, Low-Stress Training**: It’s fun and rewarding for dogs of all ages, making training sessions more enjoyable.
6️⃣ **Reduces Jumping**: Instead of jumping on people, you can ask your dog for a nose touch to greet politely.
Here is Nemo doing a sustained nose touch which is great for cooperative care when you are at the vets.
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Practising long distance recalls with Ted and Cece at Mount Hobson. Love these two 🥰
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Biggie is staying up at the rural retreat for the week and we are practicing his recall skills. Look at the little man go, so proud of him🥰
Entertaining herself while hanging out with mum in her new office. ❤️
Loving the retrieve at the end 👏
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This is what happens when you have a super smart dog and she is missing out on morning cuddles 🤣🤦♀️🤷♀️
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It was great to meet Lola yesterday and give her mum some tips on how we can start her journey with being more confident and accepting around other dogs.
It was a hot day, here is Lola taking a break in our session and cooling off.
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All ready for our Fitness, Enrichment and cooperative care session of puppy school. It’s going to be so much fun.
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The Duchess loves playing sniffing games, sniffing is super rewarding for dogs and helps them relax. This was an easy win, next time I will have to up my game lol 😂
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#sniffingisfunforyourdog
Teaching your dog to go to their crate, (or another place) is such a handy thing to teach. Here The Duchess is jumping up on a new person, calling her off and sending her away removes the ability to do this.
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Learning to chill and enjoy some downtime is super important for all puppies to learn.
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