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Have a wonderful Holiday Time with your favorite humans and dogs! ❤️🐕
12/24/2023

Have a wonderful Holiday Time with your favorite humans and dogs! ❤️🐕

Doodle sisters - Charlie and Sydney had their 4th lesson today and got to practice at the store. Proper socializing mean...
12/07/2022

Doodle sisters - Charlie and Sydney had their 4th lesson today and got to practice at the store. Proper socializing means that we provide the dogs with the experience of calm existence in different enviroments in the presence of different stimuli. It was their first "big world" outing like this and they did great!

Hello everybody! I keep wanting to make a post that we are back in town for the winter and that I'm ready to train dogs ...
11/29/2022

Hello everybody! I keep wanting to make a post that we are back in town for the winter and that I'm ready to train dogs with you! 😁

I was just making a salad and one of little tomatoes jumped to the floor and rolled (red line is it's route) right in the middle of these (hungry!) dogs. Nobody even got up ❤️

This is a good first post of the season, isn't it?
It's important that dogs don't assume that whatever hits the floor is up for grabs. Better to tell them they can have it when it's safe rather than rush to the vet if it was something they really shouldn't have, but did, right?!
Good dogs! 🐕🐕🐕🐕

10/24/2021

Hello! Is anybody missing the videos? Here is one of me and Indie working on nail trimming. Sorry for all the wind noises, it's blowing here pretty good today! 😆
Indy is about 5 months old and did two sessions with the dremmel prior to this one. She is one of the dogs that handle the whole process pretty well, I usually don't get to touch the nails with the dremmel within the first or the second session, like I did with her. It is important to not rush it, take your time if the dog needs it!

Hello! It has been quiet here for a while, but we are back in town! Now we are a team of 3! Meet Wisus (the best I can c...
09/18/2021

Hello! It has been quiet here for a while, but we are back in town!
Now we are a team of 3! Meet Wisus (the best I can come up with to help with pronunciation would be V- Seus like a letter V and dr. Seus 😉)! Wisus means rascal in polish and hopefully he will know when to be a rascal and when to be serious and helpful during dog lessons, like Juicy is 😀


If you live in Flagstaff and are looking for a dog trainer, send me a message or give me a call!

06/08/2021

Little miss Clover 🍀 is doing great! Her reactivity towards dogs is under control and she is doing really well with her commands. I want to share a little bit of her journey learning how to lie down.

Here are three videos of our work on "lie down" command. These sessions were done on May 27th, June 1st and June 7th. No work with this command was done between the first and the second video. In the third one you can't see me, but I am using my hand signal along with the verbal command (the hand one comes slightly later).

05/27/2021

Guess the weight of this little squirrel! 🥰

05/13/2021

Hi! If you are thinking about reaching out to me for help with your dog, please do it now, because in a month I will leave Flagstaff and the next chance to hire me will be in October 😬
If you are interested in going the route of 3 week program, I can take on 2 or 3 dogs, starting one one Monday the 17th and one or two on Monday 24th.
Here is a little clip from my current work with Maisie, who is learning the e collar. Maisie has done a bunch of training with me some time ago and now we are upping the game, focusing on great recall as well as working on some other things! More clips to come!

04/12/2021

I'm sorry that I have been so quiet lately, I have been pretty busy with this crew! ❤🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕

04/02/2021

Do you know what's going on here?
I will post the answer in the comments 😉

03/31/2021

Just found this video 😍 I have a thing for teaching dogs to catch treats/food 😁 I think that every dog should know how to do it, because it is fun, cool, cute, challenges them on many levels and brings that extra "thing" into rewarding. Let's face it - a treat caught mid-air is so much better than one boringly taken from a hand 😆

03/30/2021

Use your dog's food to make their "kennel" command strong and fun! Also, at multiple dogs households, it is smart to feed them in kennels, where nobody sticks their nose in somebody else's food, or even worse - growls them away from it! Close the doors and open once everybody is done.

03/24/2021

Tonks and her "manicure" session yesterday.
Teaching your dog to calmly accept being groomed and examined is good both for their body and mind!

03/24/2021

A little bit about the "off"/"get off" command.

03/23/2021

We also hit a pet store to work on some nice leash walking around distractions!

03/23/2021

Tonks took a spring break last week and now we are back to work. This little girl seems to remember things fine and as always, is very eager to please! 🥰

This is a picture I took during Chewy's final training session. Am I making it up or did Chewbacca turn into Master Yoda...
03/21/2021

This is a picture I took during Chewy's final training session. Am I making it up or did Chewbacca turn into Master Yoda? 🤔😆😍
He sure was amazing today and really showed his potential, now let's just keep him going! Congrats, big boy! 🎉

Meadow had his final lesson today! He has come a looong way! And we got to cover a lot of topics over the four sessions,...
03/20/2021

Meadow had his final lesson today!
He has come a looong way! And we got to cover a lot of topics over the four sessions, because his issues were pretty complex. He is lucky to have very committed owners, who put a lot of work into this guy and through excercises and structure built a lot of self confidence, calmness and trust. He is more and more willingly and happily following directions, doesn't get himself all worked up over random triggers and is getting really good at doing nothing, which is a very important skill to have for a dog!
Yay, Meadow! It was awesome to see you so relaxed today!

Moooose! 🦌We met for the 3rd time today and wore each other out!  😄We started working on some recall and that is a lot o...
03/20/2021

Moooose! 🦌
We met for the 3rd time today and wore each other out! 😄
We started working on some recall and that is a lot of running, especially with a dude this size, he must be over 70 # and can stretch these looong legs!
We are working on his loose leash walking skills, crate, place, recall and staying calm and attentive around distractions.

03/18/2021

Where did all the snow go?? 😐 It was here just yesterday... 😪 Join me for a minute of my 2,5 hour walk, I have a little tip that will make your dog happy! 🙂

03/17/2021

I shouldn't have recorded it in the middle of the night, but well... it is what it is, you can't retake the first session 😛 So forgive me my tired self and enjoy the Oreo pup! BTW she is my foster looking for a new home through Montain Girl Rescue!

03/17/2021

One more Chewy from before the snow times 😉
It is important to teach dogs how to disengage with what catches their attention, whether they consider it exciting, interesting or concerning. This is the skill that if it's missing, we can easily end up with a leash reactive dog. I'm using my dog Juicy as a super distraction for Mr. Chewy and you can see how much improvement can be achieved in a short time! The thing is that we need as many similar practices as possible, so we can work towards the situation where ignoring the other dog stops being a challenge and becomes a default behavior 🙂

03/16/2021

I'm glad that this week is super slow for me and I get to post some videos that I haven't shared and shouod have.
Here is a little bit of Chewie working on his "stay". In the comments is an extra session from a day before, where I started with one idea in my head, but kept changing because of what was going on 🤣

03/15/2021

Tonks from last week and her first trip to the dog park parking lot, where we worked on her gaining some confidence in the precence of other dogs. Since then we did one more session there with her owner present and she improved way beyond tue differences that you can see in the below videos. Here the first one is from just after she got out of the car and the second one from about 30-40 minutes later.

03/11/2021

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Fun to work with this little one!
We just started discriminating between commands today (video in the comments) and she already does so well!

03/11/2021

A video of teaching Chewy to get into the car and a little bit of our ride back. The park is just around the corner, but getting into the car and our drive there were stressful to the big boy. So when we got to the parking lot we did a bunch of repetitions to show him, that there is no need to be fearful.

03/10/2021

And one more of Chewy, his really nice stroll back home from the park!

03/10/2021

Chewie took a walk to the park and continued working on his recall. W are doing both a "come" command and a whistle recall. It was super windy today and much cooler than over the last week, but at least we had the park to ourselves! Well... almost, notice the couple sets of dogs that walked by and didn't distract Chewie too much! Good boy!
I have no video of that, but we also got to work through his initial panic about entering the skatepark's obstacles. We walked up and down the ramps and bowls and he quickly went from terrified to completely comfortable! 😁

Tonks went for a trip to a busy plaza parking lot. Just as your walk begins at home when you start getting ready before ...
03/10/2021

Tonks went for a trip to a busy plaza parking lot. Just as your walk begins at home when you start getting ready before you even put a leash on a dog, your adventure/socializing outing begins in the car. Teach your dog to be calm while riding. No climbing between the rows of seats, no sniffing the floor for 3 week old lunch leftovers, definitely no barking at cars or people behind the window! Just sit or down and enjoy the drive 😉

03/10/2021

Yesterday's Tonks loading up to a new set up - unknown car, unknown crate. Nailed it!

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