The K9 Pack

Off leash freedom 🩷

Ellie’s mom sent me an update on Ellie enjoying her off leash freedom! Sweet Ellie girl 🐶

Teaching calmness is such a universal behavior that should be used in everyday life situations. The truth is tiring out your dog with hours of running, walking, throwing the ball, or having “doggie play dates” doesn’t teach your dog calmness. While it may wear them out physically… in reality, you’re building an athlete with no off-switch and too much excitability. Once they sleep it off for an hour, their energy is back to 100% and it’s an endless cycle. Teaching calmness is a behavior that ALL dogs should learn. Calmness is teaching the mind to settle. When you teach the mind to settle, you will start seeing better behaviors and good habits start to form. A calm mind is such a powerful thing to teach. It can help reduce or even stop reactions to stressors that life throws at them. Whether it’s seeing other dogs, people, loud environments, etc. Teaching a dog to have a calm mind doesn’t come natural to dogs, so we must teach them the power of calmness. Even when the world around us is chaotic. Your dog can learn to have a calm mind. 💚

Sweet Maggie girl has come such a long way since her first lesson. Shy, nervous, and just a very flighty dog. When things get scary, Maggie’s go-to is to run or hide and let her anxiety get the best of her. As Maggie underwent training, her personality started to shine through. She started with wanting to do nothing with me to pulling her owner to come see me with a happy tail. You can tell she wants to be a social butterfly and show everyone who she really is, her kind and loving self. Today Maggie was introduced to a new park. As she entered, she was very timid by the environment, the traffic noises (right next to a highway) and just the different smells. As we worked on some confidence building to help keep her mind busy, she started to calm down and shift her energy from panicked to “oh, this isn’t so bad.” Maggie also has improved drastically on her recall. This was a crucial thing for Maggie to learn because since she is a very flighty dog, if there was ever a situation where she got away from her owners, I wanted her to be able to learn to safely come back to her owner or to anyone that called her, rather than run the other way or hide. I’m seriously so proud of her training journey and the progress she’s made 🩷

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Ava’s showing off her Place skills in a public setting 💚

Ava the German Shepherd 🐶

Ava is one big heavy puller and is very distracted with her surroundings. For just a young pup SHE IS STRONG! We can’t have her dragging her owners around and putting them at risk for injury. Ava really needed to learn some leash manners. Leash walking is so important for a dog to learn because it gives them a job and teaches them how to ignore their surroundings and stay engaged with their handler. It also creates boundaries and establishes a healthy handler and dog relationship. Most importantly, it keeps everyone SAFE! 🐶

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Be confident, stay consistent.

Gemini unphased by loud music, drunk people, and the smell of food. 💚 This is how a service dog should behave in public!

Scooch hangin’ out while Dog Trainer, Rosa cuts up some potatoes.

Scooch has come such a long way with his anxiety. He used to shake, whine, and pant whenever I put him in a down-stay in the kitchen. Now he relaxes and enters a zen state of mind in a heartbeat. Good job, buddy.

Breck the Great Dane is working on some reactivity he can have towards dogs.

Good job buddy!! 🐾

Ellie

Ellie holding her down-stay on a slippery floor (she’s a little suspicious about floors) while her owner “shops” around. Go Ellie Go! 🐶🐾

Sophie is showing off her leash skills. No pulling from this pup! 🐾👏🏽 • • • Cold Creek Dog Training Canada Cold Creek Dog Training- Harrisburg Cold Creek Dog Training Cold Creek Dog Training - Maryland

Maggie is using her place skills to control her impulses when it comes to her family being in the kitchen. She is a major countersurfer and likes to sneak away with some human goodies if given the chance. Implementing place will help teach Maggie boundaries as well as impulse control. Good job, Maggie ❤️