Discover the benefits of crate training for your dog:
🐾 Positive Association: Training your dog using reward-based methods helps them associate the crate with positive experiences, creating a comfortable and inviting space.
🏠 Safety and Security: Providing a secure environment, the crate offers a safe haven where your dog can rest peacefully and avoid potential hazards, reducing stress and anxiety in various situations.
🚗 On-the-Go Comfort: By acclimating your dog to confined spaces, crate training facilitates smoother transitions during travel, vet visits, and grooming appointments, ensuring they feel calm and secure outside of their familiar environment.
🐶 Behavior Management: Teaching your dog to ‘go to your crate’ serves as an effective tool, offering an alternative behavior and promoting positive habits.
Training day adventure with the dynamic duo! 🐾
🐾 Recall Training! 🐾
1️⃣Rule number 1: always always reward your dog for coming when called.
🙅🏻♂️I don’t usually combine “STAY” training with “COME.” This is because we want the dog to respond in a variety of scenarios. In real life, it’s rare to ask our dogs to “STAY” and then “COME” afterward.
🔀 Recall should be random but calculated. Call your dog when they’re not expecting it or are engaged in other activities. This way, they learn to associate their name or the word “COME” with something great or fun.
🚫 Avoid repeating the cue, so your dog doesn’t learn to ignore it.
🌟 Start in low or no-distraction environments first before moving on to more complicated settings (like when the dogs are playing). Allow dogs to return to their activities after responding and receiving a reward. This teaches them that it’s equally fun to momentarily drop whatever they are doing and come to you.
Which would you rather?
👍🏻 “Puppy, come!” ➡️ “Oh wow, something nice is about to happen!” (Food, treats, play, walks)
👎🏻 “Puppy, come!” ➡️ “Oh no, playtime is over; we’re going home.”
🌧️ With all this rain, our furry friends might be missing their outdoor playtime!
Here’s a budget-friendly hack for indoor doggy joy—repurpose old toys and recycled boxes (think delivery boxes, egg trays, or paper bags) and sprinkle some kibbles for a tail-wagging good time!
🐾 Share your indoor fun ideas below!
Dog to dog interaction can be intrinsically reinforcing for most as they usually end up having great fun when allowed to meet.
We want to teach our dogs that walking away from an interaction and re-orienting back to us can be equally fun! We can double down the fun by allowing the dogs to interact again!
This way, it helps to increase the likelihood of your dog learning to walk away from an exciting situation when asked.
Bow for Good Fortune: Wishing You a Paws-perity & Lucky Year Ahead! 🍀
The Art of Doing Nothing.
Calm behaviours can be hard to define. It does not necessarily means getting the dog to “sit-stay” or “down-stay. It literally means hanging around!
Some things to look out for includes:
- Slow rate of breathing
- Relaxed body posture
- Lying around and ‘idling’
Exploring the process with Lexi & Roxy, emphasizing a respectful approach to dog photography. No need for dogs to stand close or in a rigid line—let them choose their space and posture naturally. This reel showcases the art of capturing beautiful moments without any coercion, just treats and a camera. 📸🐾
