Road Dogs Rehab

09/15/2025

Bruh.... Buddy did this!

I was greeted like THIS! I was only gone a couple hours! All three jockying for affection and scritches!!!

09/15/2025

09/14/2025

⚠️ ⚠️ free leash run with only spatial vacuum to achieve recall ⚠️ ⚠️

Disclaimer: this stunt is performed by a trained professional idiot on a not closed, yet lightly trafficked course. Please do not try this at home.

YMMV

09/14/2025

Buddy is looking for a home to love him.

Some highlights of the day!

Buddy getting into deep water...
Monkey see; Monkey do climbing on the pipe...
Experience walking on slatted dock...
Play... *and* ..... if you're careful, you'll hear their heads crack together!
Add to that, he can now jump into the truck!

09/14/2025

Some highlights of the day!

Buddy getting into deep water...
Monkey see; Monkey do climbing on the pipe...
Experience walking on slatted dock...
Play... *and* ..... if you're careful, you'll hear their heads crack together!
Add to that, he can now jump into the truck!

09/14/2025

From needing to be .... "assisted" with a fair amount of leash pressure and insistence...
Then ... instead of me lifting his bobble butt into the truck, I was going to grab him and I hear nails cracking and noise... bro was IN the truck!
Then he did it again, to the floor and then onto the seat....
Then, I was ready with the camera and, blamo! Cleanly cleared the jump!

09/14/2025

And it only got better from there!!! More clips and vids to follow. He absolutely hit an out of the park grand slam.

09/14/2025

09/14/2025

09/14/2025

Little and often.
Baby steps...
Bite-sized chunks...
Nibble-sized bits...
Purée

Fireworks, construction work or just traffic.
Those little (or big ears) can be really disturbed by what we take for granted.
Now for the tricky part.
There's a few "mistakes" to point out when doing this, so here goes.
➡️Generally people that have tried this have done it at a volume when their dog is already startled or aware.
That really isn't the idea here.
Then they try and get their dog into a food item or play a game and of course their dog just won't budge.
Their dogs shouldn't even really know the sound is there.
Truly.
That's how you should be starting this.
Give the reward, long lasting chew or puzzle game before the very, very low level noise.
Not during and not after.
I know that seems counterintuitive but it helps enormously.

➡️Don't rush.
This can and often does take a long time because it needs to be done properly.
If you rush you will ruin all your hard work and no one wants that.

➡️Vary your devices/stereos/soundtracks and also where you do this.
This is key.
A very small portable speaker won't have the reverberation you may need later.

Golden rule.
Keep your hand on that remote in case they show signs of being uncomfortable, but remember that is usually always a step backwards and something to avoid. Especially when you are starting this.

This really is a "little and often" scenario.