Marmon Family Professional Dog Training

08/12/2024

Nala helping new training dog, Koa, develop her recall. If you can get one dog to come when called, odds are the other ones will follow. Speed is the objective when teaching a recall

07/25/2024

Calling all Dog 🐶 Lovers❤️!!!
We have a Big announcement 📣!
Kranky K9 and
Marmon Family Dog Training 🐾
are teaming up to hold the ultimate dog training seminar

Mark your calendars 🗓️ and make your arrangements so you don’t miss out on this awesome opportunity to unlock 🔓 hidden potential in your dog 🐕 .

Learn how Aaron and Bo create reliable, fast💨, flashy ⚡️ , fun 🤩 results using the Ecollar’s Pager 📟 feature. This is a new method surrounding Vibration. It is vastly different from the industry standard of low level stimulation.

Dates are: Sept. 27-29 at the Kranky K9 Dog training facility in Collinsville IL.
Friday 4-8pm
Saturday 9am-5pm
Sunday 9am - 3pm

Audit spots - $300
Early bird discount - $250 if booked before August 30

Working spots(bring a dog) - $500
Early bird discount - $400 if booked before August 30

Sign up is coming soon! Save the date!

07/23/2024

Friday! We love getting updates on dogs we have trained in the past! I have searched the internet for recalls from any Doodle breed and I believe she has the fastest, most impressive recall of any Doodle anywhere on the internet. Feel free to search and compare. She’s a great dog, who went through training during the early craziness of Covid and during protests and riots in downtown Portland, Oregon and was a great sport through it all!

06/18/2024

We love getting updates on this from dogs we have trained! We sure miss our buddy Jaxson, keep up the good work Pam, Jaxson is a dog who’s come a long way since the first day I met him!

05/27/2024

Happy Memorial Day! All gave some, some gave all…Rest in Peace to my friends that I served with who made the ultimate sacrifice 🫡

05/12/2024

Happy Mothers Day to our Momma Wolf and the glue that holds everything together! A real super hero who holds down a family of 5 boys, 3 dogs and 2 cats. Go check out her page and if you’re in the St.Louis area and need a luxury spray tan give her a call www.instagram.com/stl_tans

05/08/2024

Best friends!

05/06/2024

Welcome our newest dog, Dolly to our training program. She is a 6 month old Pitbull x hound mix, you will be seeing a lot of her coming up in the next couple weeks!

05/03/2024

Home Depot employee: “that is one very well trained dog”… you know you’re on the right track when strangers start telling you!

05/02/2024

Hanging out with my good friends over at Kranky K9. It’s always fun brain storming about the technical side of dog training with someone passionate about the subject. Bo is a great trainer and the only one in the area I would recommend to anyone. Keep an ear out for some collaborations coming in the future

04/30/2024

This is the default down in action. You always want your dog to have free agency and have them choose the behavior you want. That’s what you should be training, default behavior. Keep up the Great Work William and Seamus!

04/28/2024

Training Day with Rey. When your dog goes through any of our programs my goal is to get them into the real world and expose them to as much as I can so you are able to do more with them, giving them a more fulfilling, fun life!

04/27/2024

Thanks Pam! We sure love and miss seeing Jaxson

04/27/2024

Working on delivery to hand with training dog, Rey. Apathetic,nervous, uninterested are words describing Rey’s personality. We want to get the dogs brain working and giving them something To Do. We don’t want our training to be solely: “don’t do this, don’t do that”, so we focus on giving them things to do and keep working to get a sense of purpose and a desire To Do things into the dogs life.

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04/04/2024

When your dog trains with us we train all over town in real world environments. Me and my buddy Jasper hanging out at Opening Day, 2 years ago ⚾️🏟️ Looking forward to this season, Go Cards!

03/03/2024

🔴The anatomy of the perfect recall, getting your dog to come when called. You can scour the internet and you’re not going to see off leash recalls like this on pet dogs, it’s rare to even see this level of torque on the turn and speed back to the handler on a working dog.

🔵There are probably less than 10 trainers in the country producing this standard. Why is that? Most trainers agree that the recall is the most important command, but cannot produce an impressive recall on film.

🔴The reason is most trainers are not training in “Drive”, they are more concerned about shutting down the excitement in order to get a stay and heel. That strategy will always extinguish a dog’s spirit and kill the recall and produce an unimpressive heel. You can see that the dog’s body language indicates that they do not want to be by the handler, but are being forced to.

🔵Go look at other trainers catalogs and see if they are pumping out off leash recalls on multiple breeds time after time. Odds are they are not motivating the dog, but shutting down the dog and that’s gonna come back and haunt you in all wrong ways, building a world class recall will come back and benefit you in all the right ways when building a relationship and teaching your dog.

02/24/2024

Back in gear now that the baby is here!
Buster and Luna have welcomed 4 of our 5 boys home as babies 👶🏻 🐺🐺

12/02/2023

The recall is the staple of our training, we build everything on top of that foundation. You want it to be a reflex response, no thinking about what to do but a reaction. The spin around and the speed back to the handler are the gages to monitor how strong the recall is. We are getting there!

11/25/2023

2 year old German Shepherd x Husky, Sasha has never been around kids and she has some little ones coming into her life so we are socializing her around my boys and getting her to pair children with fun and set some boundaries and expectations in her interactions.

11/11/2023

Happy Veterans Day to all my fellow veterans! It makes me feel old knowing this picture was taken 19 years ago when I first got to Fort Bragg

09/21/2023

🗣️ The Default Down

The down is the most advantageous position we can have a dog in when they are stationary and we are trying to influence or change a behavior. It is a relaxed, calm physiology that I always want dogs to see the world through.

The default and commanded down are different. The default down is a position we are training the dog to revert to automatically, the dogs preselected, go to, when in doubt option. The commanded down implies a consequence for not going into or staying in the position after the command, the default down is the dogs decision.

The sit doesn’t offer any psychological benefit, the down does. Calm, relaxed, especially when we can get them to lay on their hip. Any stimulus that gets the dogs psychology in a state we don’t want, the best option is start habituating the dog to that stimulus and one of the best ways to streamline the process is using the default down to your advantage.

09/15/2023

Best Friends!

09/06/2023

Congratulations to my Grandpa for over 50 years of service to the Fairview Heights Police Department!

09/01/2023

Having fun and making major progress with Obi last night!

08/27/2023

I remember first meeting Sadie, I always liked the name because that was the name of the first dog I could remember having. This Sadie was a stray who kept popping up at a small farm and finally let Mary take her in. I have worked strays in the past, but Sadie was on the wilder end of the stray spectrum. Sadie really hit the jackpot getting taken in by Mary, because a lot of time, work and patience had to be put in with her. When she started coming to our farm in Oregon she had to stay on the long line dragging a kettle bell around at first because she was a flight risk like most strays are. I remember the first dog I introduced her to was one of my favorites, Dogo Argentino, Romeo. That was her first best friend. She is a prime example of why you don’t start off commanding them to sit and stay and teaching them “discipline” but rather getting inside the dogs mind, appealing to them and creating an unbreakable bond with them. Now fast forward to today seeing her off leash hiking through the beautiful Oregon wilderness with Mary is truly heartwarming!

08/26/2023

Teaching a dog to “do nothing” is as important as all of the other things you teach them. Most of their day is spent doing nothing and just like with anything else, if you don’t practice what you want them to do they are going to figure out things to do on their own and things dogs choose to do are not in agreement with what humans find acceptable

08/11/2023

🗣️Develop a Solid Recall First! If you can get speed 🏎️and a true desire for the dog to get back to you, everything else will fall into place.

If they want to come to you, they’ll want to walk by you and lay by you. The recall is the most fundamental building block 🧱 in shaping a dog’s behavior 🧠

08/08/2023

Results in 🐶 Dog Training may vary between trainers… it’s simple to compare ⚖️ because everyone has a phone 📱 with a camera. That makes it easy for a trainer to provide evidence that they know what they are doing.

Our catalog of results doesn’t look 👀 like every other trainer because we do things much different than every other trainer. Go to any trainers page 📄 and compare their catalog with ours and see if you notice see a difference.

Before investing money 💰 into training, make sure the trainer has evidence that they know what they’re doing and have dogs that showcase their skills.

Always pay close attention to the dogs body language on leash:

🔵Does the dog look like they want to be by the person at the end of the leash?

🔴Does the look like they are enjoying themselves or do they look shut down?

🔵Does it look like the dog is only there because leash forces them to be there?

We are here to help you with all of your dog training needs. Having a dog who walks nicely on leash gives them the ability to go more places, have a more enriching life that will create better behavior overall. To learn more give us a call☎️ :

(618) 365-3449
www.StLouisDogTraining.com

08/01/2023

Results in 🐶 Dog Training may vary… it’s simple to compare ⚖️ trainers because everyone has a phone 📱 with a camera. That makes it easy for a trainer to provide evidence that they know what they are doing.

Our catalog of results doesn’t look 👀 like every other trainer because we do things much different than every other trainer. Go to any trainers page 📄 and compare their catalog with ours and see if you notice a difference.

Before investing money 💰 into training, make sure the trainer has evidence that they know what they’re doing and have dogs that can showcase their skills.

Let’s start with the recall 🗣️ it’s the most important command and it’s showing you everything you need to know about the dog and the handler.

🔵 Does the dog look like they understand what to do when called?

🔴 Does the dog have any speed returning to the handler?

🔵 Is the dog returning to the handler with as much speed as they have when chasing something else?

🔴 Is the dog dragging a long leash, if so why?

🔵 Does the recall start from the stay position? How would that translate to any real world need for a recall?

🔴 Are there consistent examples of different breeds performing impressive recalls?

If you find an impressive recall on another trainers page, feel free to share it and I will give credit where credit is due.

We are here to help you with all of your dog training needs, but it all starts with the basic foundation built on the recall. To learn more give us a call☎️ :

(618) 365-3449
www.StLouisDogTraining.com

07/26/2023

🔵Family Dog Training, we want to teach you how to train your dog to become a loving member of your family.

🔵 A good dog can bring a lot of value to your home, a 2015 study by the CDC “found that growing up with a childhood dog correlated with lower rates of depression and anxiety in kids”. Having a dog can strengthen communication skills in children, teach important life lessons and help them understand concepts such as empathy, boundaries, tolerance and forgiveness just to name a few. There is a lot of great literature and studies out there talking about the many benefits of having a dog.

🔵 Your dog should compliment your life, not complicate your life, we are here to help you develop a healthy relationship with your dog that benefits the whole family!