Begging 4 Balance Dog Training and Rehabilitation

09/20/2025

Happy Saturday! Come take a walk with us. Ruby’s 5th day of board and train longer video.

09/20/2025

Ruby’s walk how it’s going day 5

09/20/2025

Here’s a look at how obedience with Ruby is going this morning. We worked through some very bratty stuff the first few days, but things are looking much softer now. I’ve been slowing everything down with her and now she’s doing very well.

09/18/2025

Targeting arousal. Ruby has some major issues stemming from over arousal. Once she gets into that heightened state it’s very hard to control her. With her reactivity to cars passing by, lunging, spinning, and coming up the leash at her mom, walking during the day was near impossible so she was only being walked at night. So where do we start training wise to stop this? Well, I start with some very strict lifestyle changes that cultivate a very different relationship between she and I. Then I go after all the tiny moments of arousal staring to creep in. I don’t wait for her to explode at cars. I’m not even waiting to correct if she perks up at a car passing. If I see her ears perk up and forehead wrinkle for any reason on our walk I am correcting with e-collar. I am not using the prong to do any correcting- prong tends to escalate some dogs (it’s on her merely to give direction and as a backup if she does lunge suddenly.) I have a dominant dog collar on to de-escalate should I be unable to do that using e-collar. Her walk is 1,000 times better already! At the end of the video you hear me correcting a bunch of times. This was mainly because holding the phone and the remote and trying to film I couldn’t dial up slightly on the remote as I normally would, so had to just correct more times on the same level. She did great regardless of my poor juggling skills. ♥️👏

09/17/2025

Muzzle conditioning with Ruby.

09/16/2025

Welcome newest board and train, Ruby! This boxer mix girl is 6 years old and she’s here for a long list of issues that include: reactivity to cars passing by, being super pushy and aggressive towards people in certain situations particularly in the home and when mom is around, one bite when a stranger grabbed her collar at a dog park and one when a family member got up and moved suddenly, she’s been on Prozac or Zoloft for the last 5 years (has now been weaned off so we can get a clear picture of her behaviors), barks/growls when latching the crate door, refuses to get into the crate, getting on and resource guarding the bed, resource guarding high value bones, barking and spinning with anxiety for entire car trips needing tranquilizers in the past, will bite and tug at the leash when she sees another dog or is reacting at cars on walks, high prey drive chasing and killing small animals like squirrels or bunnies, barking in dogs faces when they don’t want to play with her, barking and running up and down the fence line when neighbor is mowing the lawn. She has already had quite a bit of obedience training with prong and e-collar.
You’ve come to the right place Ruby, let’s get to work! 🐾❤️

09/11/2025

09/04/2025

Wallen and his owner passing by some pretty intense little barking Frenchies during his go home session. Well done! 👏

09/03/2025

Nails and ears with Wallen.