Our latest Puppy School graduates 🎓 ⭐️❤️
❤️ Trick Dog Expert ❤️ Gizmo got his international expert trick dog title at just 14wks old. Finally i’m getting around to training for his Trick Dog Champion. Here he is working on a chained behavior which is several behaviours under one cue. In this instance Gizmo has the cue ‘go to bed’ which means go to the crate - open the crate - get in the crate - close the crate. He is working through it as I start to fade the smaller cues. This is his second session, so doing well 👍 You can see his brain working overtime! He tries so hard 🥰
Tricks helps with your relationship, focus, attention and are fun! Want to know more and do trick titles with your dog then please DM ❤️
Bear says enjoy the snow! Keep warm and have fun ❤️ All services apart from online zoom behaviour consults are cancelled today.
❤️ Canine Enrichment ❤️ Rufus gave his new Nina Ottosson puzzle a try….. he was starting to getting it! It is level 3, so it is harder than his other ones he has.
Always supervise your doggies with these types of puzzles, if you have an easily frustrated dog, like Rufus. The puzzle started on the floor, but of course he took the puzzle to bed….. 🥰😊
Keeping the ‘brain’ busy is so key for dogs that ‘need a job’. Rufus or ‘rescue ru’ is a rescue Bearded Colliex X pup from the SPCA, so I need to keep him mentally busy or having something just to lick/sniff/chew to enduce calm most of the time. Good try Ru!
Check out some other Nina Ottosson puzzles to get here: https://petdirect.co.nz/p/nina-ottosson-challenge-slider-interactive-treat-puzzle-dog-toy/
Whoop! 🙌 it’s Monday! Time for some Remarkable Dog Training fun! ❤️🐾
⭐️ only 2 spots left ⭐️ Sat 29th April
⭐️ Recall & Loose Leash Workshop ⭐️
Learning long line techniques to get you to have a fantastic recall and walks fun!
Training is at my fully fenced training facility in Shotover Country. Get the skills - practice the skills!
➡️ Find out more and get your spot here:
https://www.remarkabledogsnz.com/event-details/leash-on-leash-off-workshop-3
❤️ Play + Train ❤️ doggies from 16wks old +. New kids in my small doggie pack Arlo & Jett.
2 spaces have opened up too! so if your pup or doggie needs safe socializing, fun and continued training then get in touch!
Weekly sessions in my fully fenced training facility in Shotover Country, so less time in the cars and more time for the fun bits! Pick up / Drop offs can be available 🥰 🐾
Training helps with learning to be calm around other dogs, manners, desensitisation, recall, safe play with correct temperaments from your only local positive fear free trainer 🐶
❤️ your dogs 🐕 🐾
❤️ Play + Train ❤️ fun from this week 🐾❤️
Gizmo is learning a few new tricks these holidays as I finally have made time to work towards his trick dog champion title to join his older brothers!
Want to go through some tricks and help with your bonding and get titles too? Get in touch!
New Years resolutions…. Do more with your dog ❤️🐾
⭐️ Enrichment Trickmas🎄 - Day 22 Water Fun!
Welcome to 24 days of enrichment and trick ideas to give your dog a happy life! If you follow along you may also grab a trick title or 2 as well!
Buying a small plastic shell is a great small pool for doggies! Can be used for paddling, sitting in, making a digging pit, making a ball pit…. So much fun! You can put ice cubes with treats in or throw treats in the pool for your dogs to ‘dunk’ to get! These hot days everyone appreciates water fun! ❤️ 💦
⭐️ Enrichment Trickmas🎄 - Day 13 Box Unwraps
Welcome to 24 days of enrichment and trick ideas to give your dog a happy life! If you follow along you may also grab a trick title or 2 as well!
Unwrapping:
Dog’s love this! Srunch up newspaper or wrapping paper and put treats inside the box. You can close the box to make it harder and can put multiple boxes inside each other to make it even harder!
Great for sniffing, calming and keeping that brain busy! Sometimes the kids like the wrapping more than the present! 📦 ❤️
⭐️ Enrichment Trickmas🎄 - Day 7 Parkour Walks
Welcome to 24 days of enrichment and trick ideas to give your dog a happy life! If you follow along you may also grab a trick title or 2 as well!
Parkour:
Parkour is basically agility using whats on your walks! It’s an athletic training discipline or sport in which practitioners attempt to get from point A to point B in the fastest and most efficient way possible, without assisting equipment and often while performing artistic-gymnastic maneuvers!
*go around or weave in and out of posts
*jump over/go under/stand on logs/trees/rocks etc.
*paws up on anything!
It’s alot of fun and mentality tires you and your dog! Bear loves his parkour on walks! So much fun! Give it a go next walk! ❤️
⭐️ Enrichment Trickmas🎄 - Day 6 Enrichment Garden
Welcome to 24 days of enrichment and trick ideas to give your dog a happy life! If you follow along you may also grab a trick title or 2 as well!
Enrichment Garden:
- ramps to play on
- plants to smell and explore
- different textures to stand on from wobble cushions to stones to sawdust to gravel to bricks to wood
- paddling pool
-plant maze
- ball pit (Gizmo’s favourite!)
- balance board (made with tryes in video)
The options are endless! Create some of your garden, a room etc. if you lucky for your dog!
Grass is ok but an enrichment playground is fun 🥰😉🐾
⭐️ Enrichment Trickmas🎄 - Day 5 DIY Enrichment Toys
Welcome to 24 days of enrichment and trick ideas to give your dog a happy life! If you follow along you may also grab a trick title or 2 as well!
DIY Enrichment Toys:
- make sure they always have an airflow, i.e. bottles have holes in it other than usual opening.
- use really high value rewards so your dog will bother to ‘try’. I use meat for my pups!
- make sure you take off labels, sharpe edges and things that could come off.
- make them easy and then make harder.
- always supervise with DIY toys
* Gizmo in the video found the toilet roll one easier, good start for him before the milk bottle one, as he found that one abit hard….
⭐️ Enrichment Trickmas🎄 - Day 4 Carpet Roll
Welcome to 24 days of enrichment and trick ideas to give your dog a happy life! If you follow along you may also grab a trick title or 2 as well!
Carpet Roll:
Start with a light mat and increase in length and weight to make harder later. First of all lay out your mat or carpet or rug and put a line of treats down the middle (if off to the side it can make the roll harder). Roll up and encourge your dog to find the treats. Later you can increase the distance inbetween the treats and use less, if you wish!
Great for neck strengthening, helping set up your yoga mats?, great self-calming sniffing ❤️🐾
⭐️ Enrichment Trickmas🎄 - Day 3 Cardboard Chaos
Welcome to 24 days of enrichment and trick ideas to give your dog a happy life! If you follow along you may also grab a trick title or 2 as well!
Cardboard Chaos:
Lots of boxes around at Christmas time and wrapping paper…. Recycle them by letting your dog explore cardboard towers and forts (who doesnt love making a fort!?!). Just grab some boxes (making sure no plastic or staples sticking out/in) and place food or toys or both in them, around them, on top of them etc. And let them have a sensory adventure!
I like doing this in the garden as way more space, but xmas day…. Why not clear up the things that are yours and then let your dog have his time?!
This game helps with confidence building, enriching and gives your dog a job! Perfect fun!
Rufus (my newest rescue dog) is the first up in the video, he is still building trust and confidence, which takes a while for my black and white spca special. This is his first time. You can see he is cautious, but then gets into it more. He’ll be throwing boxes around with confidence soon enough! Gizmo is already more confident and gets stuck in…. Same with Bear. ❤️🐾🐾🐾
*If doing as as a multidog household make sure your dog/s have no guarding behaviour. These 3 of mine are ok together.
⭐️ Enrichment Trickmas🎄 - Day 2 Muffin Tin Game
Welcome to 24 days of enrichment and trick ideas to give your dog a happy life! If you follow along you may also grab a trick title or 2 as well!
Canine enrichment is so important daily for our dogs. Think about lots of mental stimulation as this can reduce many problem behaviours. If you have a puppy and walking nicely on lead is not a thing yet, don’t practice them pulling on the leash - mentality excercise them! Way better ❤️🩹🐾
Muffin Tin Game:
Use a muffin tin tray and place treats in the holes. You place balls or objects on top on the holes with treats in. Watch your dog try and work it out! Simple! I actually don’t give any cues I leave them too it - as they sniff out the treats soon enough.
Easy version - use light balls (I use children’s ballpit balls - very cheap from kmart). You want the dog to get into it, so make it simple and easy to win to start with. I don’t even put balls in every hole, but have a few open treat ones to show them what is there (check out gizmo in the video).
Increase weight of balls and put more treats underneath than the lighter ones. Later you can make all the balls/objects heavier once your dog gets the idea!
I like having the metal tray on the floor so it slips around, as it makes it harder, but you may not like them slipping around your house/garage…. You can place on a non-slip location too to make easier. 🎄👍
⭐️ Enrichment Trickmas🎄 - Day 1 Scatter Feeding & Snuffle Mats
Welcome to 24 days of enrichment and trick ideas to give your dog a happy life! If you follow along you may also grab a trick title or 2 as well!
Anything licking/sniffing/chewing is generally self-calming for a dog. It also mentally tires them out, so perfect for puppies to dogs that need a job to those that need to chill more or to reduce reactivity.
Scatter feeding:
Throwing food on the garden grass is best as it takes them on a sniff-afari through the grass to find rewards. Scatter as far and wide as you wish to take them longer, so if time is a factor, this is an easy way to enrich your dog daily!
Snuffle mats:
There are hard versions and puppy versions. You hide treats as best you can and your dog sniffs to get them out. Helping them relax and use that brain!
Check out Queenstown Best for Pets https://www.queenstownbestforpets.co.nz/product/snuffle-mat/
& puppy versions (lions and hedgehogs!) available at Kmart https://www.kmart.co.nz/product/pet-snuffle-mat-lion-43110483/