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Off leash obedience, behavior modification, and puppy training.

11/23/2025

I've been doing some follow-up work with Dragon to make sure they are in a good place since they will be leaving the state soon.

I brought Lotte along since I know she and Dragon have a history together. They live in the same building, and right after they moved into the building Dragon actually had a run-in with Lotte and ended up nipping her. 😳

Shortly after that Dragon came for his training. And right after he went home Lotte came to see me for her training! I thought it would be a great challenge for both of them to work around each other.

Dragons really doing fantastic. He still has his challenges, but overall just an incredible improvement and his owners have put in so much work getting him over his rough patches. Today I genuinely saw a much more relaxed dog than he was a few weeks ago, even in a chaotic dog-filled environment.

Lotte did amazing considering I rarely even bring dogs on field trips like this at this stage of their training. She walked very nicely with a little bit of feedback from me, and drew, a lot of attention with her cute looks and good behavior.

11/22/2025

Working with Baker at the park. Lots of recalls and down-stays and asking him to drop his stick. 😊 We also did a lot of let's go which I love doing to tune dogs in when they are off leash. Baker is very responsive And as far as he could tell we were just having a good time.

11/21/2025

Charlotte learning the down command. 😊

Joyce starts by getting the behavior what a food lure and then once she is fairly reliable lying down to get the food, she starts saying 'down' before luring.

The association will begin to form that the word down precedes her lying down to get food at which point she will likely start lying down on her own at least some of the time when we say the word.

Then we will need to raise the bar a little and move away from that lure to reward only, and then lastly an intermittent reward system combined with accountability for non-compliance.

11/21/2025

Joyce, working with Lotte on the place command.

Lotte seems to like this game. Nobody tell her it's going to get harder. 😬

11/20/2025

Working on Baker's leash manners around heavy distraction and throwing in some downs as well. He got lots of compliments. 😊

11/20/2025

Kennel drills with Lotte. She wasn't a big fan at first, but was a rockstar by the end of the lesson (which was about 7 or 8 minutes).

These "small things" truly are the magic of the board and train program. It seems so simple but you're taking all of these "simple" behaviors that your dog does all day long and you are repeating them (using strategic conditioning) so many times in a short timeframe that you shape the behavior quickly, and then you cement it over time.

We want to shape all behaviors to be "handler asks once, dog complies" especially behaviors that we need to get frequently—those are really integral to shaping the overall relationship you have with the dog.

11/20/2025

Working with Baker on the sit/stay. This isn't something we do a ton of because generally speaking if we are going to put a dog in a stationary command for any extended period of time we are just going to have them lie down. But we do rehearse this so that the dogs do generalize over that implied stay to all of their positional commands. Baker is doing wonderful. We are excited to start going out and working around heavy distraction.

You can hear me in the background working with Lotte. 😆

We are welcoming Lotte (Charlotte) to the Diamond K9 family! She's a 9 month old Yorkie with a lot of personality. Lotte...
11/18/2025

We are welcoming Lotte (Charlotte) to the Diamond K9 family!

She's a 9 month old Yorkie with a lot of personality. Lotte is fun and sweet, but she can be lacking in manners a little at times. She tends to be a bit forward with other dogs and will sometimes jump at their face. She pulls on the leash and barks to she's at things unnecessarily.

Her owners, in addition to those things above, are excited to have a reliable off leash recall with Lotte.

Check back for updates on this little girl!

11/18/2025

Here's a clip of what it looked like teaching Baker "let's go". This is something we do with most dogs at some point as part of their e-collar conditioning, and we also like to use it to tune them in when we are outside preparing for off leash.

However, In Baker's case, I am teaching it because he doesn't like to come out of his kennel. Once we told him he couldn't rush out of his kennel, he stopped coming out at all. So we just taught him let's go, and it worked like a charm.

Laundry now comes pre-pugged. Dog hair for the whole day.
11/16/2025

Laundry now comes pre-pugged. Dog hair for the whole day.

It was great having a good sized group at class yesterday. We are so fortunate to be blessed with such amazing clients t...
11/16/2025

It was great having a good sized group at class yesterday. We are so fortunate to be blessed with such amazing clients that are so committed to their dogs.

And we love that so many of you stay in touch and let us know how things are going. These classes are so much more than just "practice". We love connecting with you all. ❤️

Back row: Baker, Bodhi (can barely see him), Rogue, Atlas

Front row: Dragon, Mazie, Wolf, Bravo

Loving the fire last night. It was chilly!! Frye and Ellie. ❤️
11/16/2025

Loving the fire last night. It was chilly!! Frye and Ellie. ❤️

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