Updating my website and going through old photos and videos. This is 16 week old Whitlow from the WAAAAAAAY back. He was such a love of a dog. Those were the days before the winds took so many trees. Such a lovely park.
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Nice work everyone! From 5 month old Nacho at his very first group walk to 12 year old Nealy who's an old pro 10 year old Buster and 9 year old Thor and every age and experience in between, everyone did so well and enjoyed the day practicing and enjoying a relaxing walk together.
When Clancy and Jean first began their training adventures it was because Jean could not enjoy walking with Clancy without fear he would pull her down. Her husband had to walk him and she desperately wanted to enjoy time with him. As you can see, she is very close to reaching that goal, and so much more.
A minute of a month spent with Ella the Mudi while her people explore the earth.
Ranger had his final lesson Thursday before heading off on their long adventure in the RV. I was contacted last month to help get better behavioral control.
In the past their travels and even their home life was chaotic due to his lack of self control around doors and gates which makes exiting and entering the RV hazardous.
The first step was teaching his people to be good leaders he could trust to meet his needs, that yes, they would open the door and take him for walks, yes, they would feed him regularly, yes they would play fetch and generally do everything with him and for him, so he could relax and be patient rather than anxiously trying to lead them through all of these daily tasks.
Once that was established we could then focus on fine tuning and incorporating his basic obedience skills into daily life to prevent door barging and dragging his people to the vehicle or exciting the house for a walk.
Monday, the RV was brought home so they could begin transferring what he learned to the RV, which was a huge trigger for excitement!!!
Here's a bit of how that went... in the past he was scrambling up the steps before the door was even open.
Since they will be moving locations every few days (lucky them!), they have the perfect opportunity for generalizing this behavior. And have more relaxing and fun adventures together.
This more relaxed Ranger also means he can remain calm when seeing Dad when we returned from our walk.
I'll be available for video chats until they return and we can see where he is and finish up his training.
He's so lucky he has such dedicated owners.
I got a text last night from someone desperate for help. They had just moved to town 2 days ago from Arizona. Tunya's 8 year old Doberman made it up the stairs when they arrived but was terrified to go down the stairs and had not relieved himself since. (Not even in the apt!)
Prior to moving here, he had no issues with stairs, easily running up and down them. But, as you'll see, their new location presented a very unique challenge. Aside from being on the 3rd floor, each staircase had a different look to them, the hallway was open on one side, the stairs were all open and on top of it all, metal.
Since arriving, Tunya was only successful in getting him to put his paws on the top step, that was after convincing him to get off the floor and walk down the long open hallway. Once he did, he was glued to the side, terrified of the open railing.
We spent about 15 minutes convincing him he was safe and letting him know the chicken was definitely for him!
Then we spent the rest of the hour teaching him to go down more slowly and in a relaxed manner for safety reasons.
What a sweet boy who let loose his bladder for a good 45 seconds once he made it down. Afterward had a good bowel movement!!
Tunya will not have to move after all which was her plan if I couldn't help her.
By the way, he did all this while the movers were coming and going up and down the stairs and hall, too.
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Three very good dogs all with very good people who learned to guide them with our instruction.
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7-month old Annie begins the journey to being Safely Off-Leash. Her people did so well teaching her the basics in just two of the three lessons in our foundation program, they were able to level up early!
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Closing out 2023 group walks with gear students and their dogs. #thedevelopingcanine #dogtraining #pickupyourpoop #shoplocal #ShopSmall
Closing out 2023 group walk!
Closing out 2023 group walk!
Closing out 2023 group walk!
