Dog Training By Shane

01/09/2025

01/09/2025

Fritz helped assist me today ,down at the park with Ashe and her mom for our private lesson...
There was lots of people down there, and it was a beautiful day for some training!!
Great job everybody!
I have some early availabilities in the board and train program for late January... And I am running a six week special for reactivity and aggression..
Www.thedogtank.net
Please contact me for more information.

01/09/2025

Ashe has been putting in a lot of work and doin great out in the field working on recalls and around the chickens🙂
And she's super excited for her visit with mom tomorrow!
Great job Ashe!

01/08/2025

This is how we ruin both our children and dogs...

Let’s make the toxicity of selfishness at the cost of those in our care something we find less worthy of celebration, and more worthy of condemnation.

This of course doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy, dote on, and appropriately indulge your dog. It means that your job is to ensure that your dog’s deeper needs are prioritized over your superficial ones. Which means, enjoy them — but keep them healthy and balanced, even when you’d rather do otherwise.

Because if you ask just about any trainer, they’ll tell you that the human’s need to spoil their dog for their own pleasure, and refrain from the balancing act of sharing proper discipline in equal amounts to the spoiling — is the biggest hurdle to success.

PS, And for all those who are triggered and already madly typing away an outraged response of “I spoil my dogs and they’re perfect!”, please extend your outrage to all those unlucky dogs — who are most dogs — who are nowhere near perfect, and are instead terrible messes.

PPS, And I’m pretty certain the word “perfect” gets an awful lot of flexibility/re-interpretation/latitude when it’s being used as an emotional shield to deflect guilt and dereliction of responsibility.

01/07/2025

Here's a video of Fritz, making his TikTok debut!
That's boy is doing so good in the program.I'm really impressed with his progress!!
Great job buddy!
I have one availability left for the end of january.In the board and train program if interested please contact me for more information.

01/06/2025

A good personal check in.

Are your rules actually rules — meaning valuable consequences occur if they’re not followed — or are they hopeful but empty suggestions — meaning the only consequence for not adhering to them is you getting frustrated, flustered, and angry?

If you don’t know how to enforce the rules, there’s plenty of info on this page and my YouTube (the good dog training) to guide you — but you’ll have to dig in and do the work.

If you do know how but find that knowledge emotionally unsavory, you’ll almost certainly find yourself and your dog continuously struggling.

01/06/2025

Good morning everybody!!
- help me welcome Nora to the program!!!
We are going to focus on her jumping and leash walking along with addressing all of her impulse control .
She's already made a lot of progress.And i'm super confident we will be successful.
Welcome Nora!
** i have 1 availability in my program for late January ..
If interested, please contact me for more information
Www.thedogtank.net

01/04/2025

FRITZ
- just enjoying the evening stroll ...
Have a great weekend everybody!

01/03/2025

That pulling, chaotic, reactive walk that’s driving you crazy — it was created by way of countless moments of allowance of pushy, bratty, overly excited behavior that happened long before you ever hit the streets.

It’s like letting your kids be bratty, entitled monsters at home, because it’s not that big of a deal — and then heading out to a nice dinner and telling them they’d better behave.

Haha…

If you want a fighting chance at a nice, polite, enjoyable, and safe walk, it’s time to take a look at all the non-walk moments occurring between you and your dog and have an honest conversation with yourself about how it all looks.

While it’s possible, it’s wildly unlikely that you’ve got an amazingly well behaved dog in all other contexts, and yet your walk is a disaster. Everything matters, and everything is a conversation that either tells your dog there are rules and standards — and consequences for breaching them… or not.

If the walk is a mess, START with reversing/transforming the first 5 items on the above list — that’s a solid beginning. And then, when you’re ready to make some major positive changes, take a look at the final one, prepare yourself for a serious challenge, and then get to work.

01/03/2025

My two regulars- mr Cooper and Aspen, are getting some time together working on
socialization around the other dogs, while also working some impulse control and exposure to the vacuums and things of that nature while we clean this morning 🙂
Everybody always has lots of fun in the board and refresh program.... and after this, we're going out for a nice journey through the woods😉

01/02/2025

Here is a great demonstration of Ashes progress in home depot!! She did great on her last trip.In and has made so much improvements
Good job little lady!

01/01/2025

Mister Fritz made his debut at home depot this morning!! It was a lot for the big guy to take in, but he did great. We worked a lot on surfaces, leash, walking and just making it an overall real fun and enjoyable time 🙂
He did great...
Keep up the good work buddy!!

**I have 1 availability in my board and train program for late january.. If interested, please contact me for more information