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Premier Pack Dog Training

Dog Training service. Specializing in a well behaved dog so you can enjoy a better life with your best friend.

Our highly successful board and train program focuses on obedience as well as solutions for a variety of issues.

01/16/2025

Welcome Kaiser to The Premier Pack!

This nearly 2 yo has pulled his owner to the ground. With that behavior, his life has been more confined because going on walks is dangerous. I'm excited for their much bigger life ahead when he is the dog that they can comfortably and confidently take anywhere!

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01/15/2025

Welcome Spot to The Premier Pack!

This fella is here due to a rescue situation in which his owner had to be moved for medical care. The family wanting to take him needs some training in place to do so. So far, he is a nice dog that needs some skills to behave appropriately in his new home. I'm glad to be part of making his future secure!

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01/14/2025

Dogs are very aware of your feelings.

They know who the pushover is and who demands respect. They know when you mean what you're saying and when you are sorry for any necessary discipline.

I've seen owners turn the dial way up on the ecollar and their dog just get annoyed because the owner felt bad and sorry, and I've seen dogs comply readily to no physical correction when the owner had a firm attitude alone.

Dog owners have sabotaged any efforts at delivering corrections when it is done with such weak energy behind it, and they will have a much harder time gaining compliance without tools. If your dog knows you mean it, then the tools involved become less critical.

The demeanor you exhibit has greater impact than the physical correction given. If you present yourself as someone to be respected, you will get respect, but if you are seen as a soft pushover, you will be treated accordingly regardless of the tool.

The nice thing is that when your dog sees that you "mean it", it makes things easier on you and your dog.

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01/13/2025

- Find a trainer who deals in truth: this means doing the hard work of educating yourself about all the conflicting nonsense out there. This means searching for guidance from someone who deals in truth, reality, and logic rather than an easy sell or what appeals to them ideologically — or you emotionally. (An easy “tell” is to search for someone who risks status, reputation, and revenue in favor of sharing unpopular truths publicly.)

-Find a trainer who will tell you the truth: while there are many trainers who know and operate from a place of truth, reality, and logic, many of them (if not most of them) realize there’s a heavy price to be paid for transparently sharing what they know even in a one-on-one scenario. Due to this, even those who have the information you need will often withhold it — not due to a lack of care for you and your dog, but due to concerns about their own welfare and fallout from being transparent.

-Take this truth and implement it: if you DO manage to find one of these unicorns who deal in truth and who WILL share it with you, there’s still one incredibly large hurdle — you. Often, even when the desired answers are placed before them, owners will find the work too emotionally and/or physically daunting, and will either avoid it altogether, or will dive in initially only to fall off and let it go when it becomes too difficult.

- If any of the above 3 are missing, you won’t succeed: If your trainer doesn’t deal in truth, reality, and logic, whether they share the info and whether you implement it doesn’t matter. And acting on poor info just means frustration and disappointment. If your trainer does deal in truth, reality, and logic but won’t transparently share what they know with you, you’re in the same boat as the first example. And if you’re lucky enough to find a trainer who does deal in and is willing to share truth, reality, and logic with you but you won’t do the work, you’re toast. You need all 3, and if you’ve got them, you’ve found your success recipe.

-This is far harder than you think: if you’ve read this far, this last one is self-explanatory. :)

01/04/2025

Pila and Bette are relaxing and cozy with us while their owner is away. These two and their owner have become very special to us. I had them in for training for extreme fear about 5 years ago, and they have stayed with us many times since then.

01/02/2025

Riley 😀

12/30/2024

Blue , the

12/25/2024

Nikita joins The Premier Pack!

This 7yo was making life stressful for her owner, even pulling her over on a recent walk.

She is learning the skills and behavior that will enhance hers and her owner's lives!

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12/23/2024

Shelters need to move dogs. They only have so many spaces and high demand. They need adoption fees.

Many things they will tell you may be their honest best guess, but often they relate their assumption as fact. Many times, it could be the experience they had in that particular environment, which doesn't apply to your home environment...

Many times, it is a lie.

Two negative things can happen from this;

1. You assume the dog is safe and someone or another animal in your home gets hurt.

2. You hold on to the assumptions/lies told and unnecessarily make excuses for the dogs behavior indefinitely.

When you bring the dog home, assume it is not safe to be handled by your children, assume it is not ready to meet your other dog or cat.

Give your newly adopted dog structure and guidance. Use a crate and leash to have safe control and management. Provide limitations and expectations of behavior. Ease into earned freedom as you really get to know your new dog.

*For help bring a newly adopted dog home successfully, let's take!
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12/18/2024

Unfortunately, many, possibly most, dog trainers are attracted to this occupation because they love dogs and don't care for people. Many are anti-social, toxic, and super judgemental. Good hearts and intentions generally, but not tolerable of people.

But, this is a people business, don't ignore that. Without people willing to care for them, dogs, as we know them, cease to exist. Dogs are the catalyst to help people. And, guess what? The dogs benefit when the people who own them enjoy them more.

Dog trainers have some responsibility to the misguided dog owners out there. People will research dog training or hire trainers only to find endless conflicting strategies, many of which don't work and are solely based on feelings and the intent of making the trainer look good. They're confused and frustrated. Meanwhile, many trainers are unforgiving of people that don't base their lives around their dog, when they have other responsibilities and priorities and are doing what they can.

A trainer that shames a client that was doing things wrong, doesn't have as much time as they would like for the dog, and didn't understand things that seem common sense to us is not helping. Build them up, encourage them to do what they can, and show them how they can be successful with their dog. They are, after all, coming to you for help.

12/17/2024

Dogs will have routines.

Without intervention on your part, your dog will create its own routines. And that can often be in the form of unwanted behaviors.

Be aware of the situations in which your dog does certain unwanted behaviors on a regular basis and then interrupt that routine. Take measures to develop a different routine that is acceptable.

You can also create routines that make your life easier and more convenient.

Whatever behaviors your dog practices regularly will become their routine. You choose.

This is a very powerful point for dog owners to be aware of. Often, they feel subject to their dog's routine.

Take charge of your dog's daily routine and see tremendous improvement!

*This is one of the big reasons a structured board and train program, like ours, is so powerful in creating significant behavior improvement in dogs.

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12/14/2024

If I wanted to talk to you but spoke in a whisper that you could barely hear, that would make things unnecessarily difficult. Of course, I wouldn't yell either.

Normal communication doesn't happen that way. You speak in a volume that makes it easy for your listener to hear you. You want clear recognition and feedback from the one you're talking to, and not just the most minute body language that tells me they heard something. It is completely unproductive if the one you're trying to communicate with doesn't hear every word or even realize you're talking to them.

Just like you don't start a conversation with whispers, you don't need to start ecollar training by fishing for the "lowest percieved level". I can't exaggerate how much unnecessary wasted time is spent on that strategy.

*I typically use a Mini Educator, which has 100 levels. Based on a lot of experience, I start around 5-7. Based on that reaction, I will adjust from there. Even if those levels are higher than necessary, it is not the end of the world, and I see how low I can go for a desired response.

12/11/2024

Keep this in mind when choosing a dog.

For the pet dog owner, a balanced temperament is what you want. One with a healthy amount of confidence. Not overly assertive and not cowardly.

What happens a lot, especially when choosing a "rescue dog", is people are taken by their emotions and choose the dog that is nervous and shy, perhaps even cowering in the corner. They think that the dog just needs a loving home, not realizing the genetic factor in the that demeanor. After all, they want to "rescue" a dog.

Although all the dogs are in the shelter are in need of a home, they dismiss the dog that seems too bold because it doesn't pull on the heart strings as much.

After training hundreds of dogs with behavior issues, I find that training a dog that may be overly confident, even assertive, to be calmer and more of a follower is a whole lot easier than to try to break a fearful dog out of its shell and build enough confidence to find a balanced temperament.

Tremendous improvement can be made in either case. However, given the choice, I'll take the dog that is cocky every single time.

*For help with your overly confident or fearful dog, or help in choosing a dog, I'm happy to assist!
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12/06/2024

Let me tell you about a call I was on.

A woman reached out to me because her dog doesn't listen, can't regain its focus if it sees another dog, it jumps on the counter, gets in the trash, pulls on walks, and is peeing in the house.

Not a very unusual set of complaints that I hear.

The story continues...

She said she is working with a trainer.
"Really?" I said, "How long?"
8 months

That's right, you heard me right; EIGHT MONTHS!

"How old is your dog?" I asked.

She said her dog is only 2 years old.
"Only?"
The trainer told her the dog is still young.

I was bewildered. I had to be the one to tell this poor person that she was being strung along.
I confirmed that she was working with a 'pure positive' treat trainer. Of course she was.
I told her that her dog is not young, in fact, her dog is a year and a half behind schedule. And that this could be trained by this time next month.

I said "This trainer's strategy does not work. If it hasn't worked months ago, she is just stringing you along as long as your wallet allows."

This upsets me for a couple of reasons.
It hurts the trustworthiness of the industry, and it holds the dog and owner back from living the life they want and deserve.

Dogs don't live long enough. To waste such valuable time is hard to excuse.

If you think your dog should be making more progress with your current trainer and have doubts, let's talk.
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12/04/2024

Ranger, the in my program.

12/01/2024

Aambi, the Bernedoodle, in training.

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Zeke, the 4yo Frenchie, was hard to take on a walk before. Now look at how easy going he is in a new, unfamiliar place! Good boy, Zeke!