Vintar German Shepherd

01/26/2025

February 2025
Social Class @ 9am
1, 8, 15, 22
Training Class @ 9am
2, 16
CGC @ Vintar @ 9am
23
Fitdog @ 1pm
15 North Estrella Lake
23 White Tanks Waterfall Hike

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01/26/2025

01/24/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18jm7j17Ak/ I talk alot about this in class. Our main focus is working with the human dog relationship. Helping the owner understand the dog they have building towards the training secondary. The owners that have a better relationship with their dog can go to the training class and we work more on training than behavior. Behavior is always part of training in class. You work on the behavior part training is so much easy to accomplish.

01/24/2025

I don’t talk a lot about what we do here in training. My priority is my dogs and their families. When I first started breeding the one thing I didn’t want to do was puppies going to homes and ending up in shelters. Over the years I have become what we are today where my owners sign papers agreeing my dogs will not be abandoned in the rescues and shelters, they will come home to me. It’s been tough over the years keeping that promise I made to the dogs. Just last year in a few months we had over 8 dogs returned. With our amazing Vintar families everyone came forward and all the dogs found homes. One of the things people don’t truly understand is the hardest part is getting these dogs back with serious health issues that I have to come up with the money to help them get better. We don’t get donations. We pay all expenses for these dogs. I even had to rehome 3 of the dogs returned for free. And I spent over $2000 in vet cost on just one of those dogs.. My breeding program is always a work in progress but very much centered on trying my best to make sure the dogs are taken care of. I started teaching my class a little over 10 years ago. I was having 6 or 7 dogs returned a year. I started my class trying to figure out a way to help my dogs stay in their homes. To this day none of the dogs that are in my class have been returned. And I am not talking about 2 or 3 days bringing the dog to class. The owners that have been dedicated to the dogs, learning with the dogs and have continued to learn and grow. It’s been a great positive outcome keeping dogs in their home. I slowly started getting dogs that were not my own joining class. The more they came, the more they became part of our ever growing family at Vintar. We now are helping with dogs in the rescues and shelters. We have had several dogs on the euthanasia list find home struggling with their behavior issues come to us for help. We are helping evaluate the dogs with the new owners to help them understand the responsibilities and dedication it takes to help them get better. We have gotten several dogs over the years that trainers have labeled difficult dogs, and they are kicked out of the program because they were not easy money come to us for help. I tell the owners I will not give up on your dog if you don’t. I will continue fighting for these dogs that are mishandled and misunderstood in the human world. So many of the issues we have with dogs today are because we label them. Our biggest fault is labeling the breed instead of looking at the human handler that caused the problem in the first place. Here at Vintar we not only do our best to create a highly intelligent, sensitive, loving family member that can become a service dog, family dog, SAR etc… but we are also very dedicated to helping develop a better human dog relationship between our owners and their dogs. I have had many arguments over the years with trainers over behavior issues. I tell them one of the biggest differences is I live with over 20 dogs 24 hours a day. If I didn’t learn and understand their behavior living with them would be impossible. A lot of trainers will do training for 6 to 8 weeks at a time. My classes range from 8 to 25 dogs weekly. I raise and train all of my dogs from puppyhood to adult. My dogs meet groups of families weekly as a pack. My classes are not 6 to 8 week courses. My class is every Saturday, and the owners come when they want to. We get these working breed dogs training never stops.. You have a commitment of 8 to 13 years on average of a dog that has a mind that is constantly looking for something to do.. Training is necessary from the day you bring the dog home and through the life of the dog. I have done several courses on understanding dog behavior (reactivity, fear, anxiety etc) and how to handle them. I will continue educating myself on behavior issues so I can continue to learn and grow. I also have taken several courses on breeding dogs and understanding all the information I need to have healthy, happy dogs join their new families. Everything is a work in progress, and I learn something new all the time. I am very thankful for all your support and advice over the years to help us get where we are today and look forward to the years to come.

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01/24/2025

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01/23/2025

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01/23/2025

Rogue 12-4-24 getting their 1st salad. I would say they like it 😊

01/23/2025

Rogue puppies get playtime with Kobie

01/22/2025

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01/22/2025

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01/22/2025

At puppy visit I noticed the puppies were scared of the adult dogs we had out at the dog park visiting, which tells me mom is correcting a little too harshly on puppy teeth. So momma rogue was pulled from the puppies. She will get to visit supervised once in awhile until she let's me know she is done with the babies. She is not the most patient momma with puppy teeth. Rebel her sister stays with her babies until I start weaning them to go home. She loves the babies. Rogue loves the babies until landshark stage 😂

01/21/2025

Finished bed alot softer than the rubber horse mat. I like it. 🥰

01/21/2025

New bedding for the mommas. I was using the rubber horse mats and it soaked up fluid which my opinion was just bacteria issues waiting to happen so I bought a home gym mat that is water proof to see if that works better. I put blankets on top.

01/21/2025

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FsSGAU/ I rarely recommend products like this. Ive tried so many of them that don't work. I bought this one on Amazon. Big difference is it also has a strobe light with it. I have 23 german shepherds it works on all of them but one. Lol you always have to have one. 😁 if you over use it it won't work. I will use this when the dogs are barking but follow through with a firm quiet command. Sensitive dogs will be fearful of it in the beginning. My submissive dogs see my orange device in my hand they immediately lay down. The rest will sit and be quiet. It does work used correctly on most dogs.. alot better than yelling at your dog to be quiet which most of the time works for about 2 seconds..

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01/21/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14skyhNeZ5/ a very valuable tool in behavior in the home is the place command..