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West Tennessee K9 Nashville We train any dog, any breed, any problem! We train all sizes and breeds, along with teaching all owners!

16/02/2025

Lilly is joining us! She is a spunky girl always ready to get all the attention she can!

14/02/2025

Someone is really working hard on his chill out skills

11/02/2025

Kilo is joining us this week!

05/01/2025

Do you have a new puppy? Do you have an adult dog? Be careful with the introduction. Here is one way to do it.

When we get a new puppy, we are so excited to get them home to meet their new friend. We envision the dogs immediately romping and playing together. The truth is that rarely happens.

Remember, dogs are responding to pressure and puppies create a lot of it. When there is too much pressure, dogs use their mouth to make that pressure go away. I get so many calls about adult dogs attacking puppies, that it’s pretty troubling.

So, here’s what you do.

1. On the way home, kennel the pup.
2. Make sure your other dog is not with you and is put away at home. We don’t want the excitement of the initial greeting.
3. When you get home, let the puppy potty in the back yard and then immediately put them in the kennel.
4. Let your adult dog out into the yard to smell the new puppy. Repeat this daily.
5. Allow the dogs to coexist for some time before any type of greeting. How long? As long as it takes. Sometimes days, sometimes weeks.
6. Introduce initially through a baby gate. I like baby gates because they are inside and dogs usually don’t have a history of being reactive through them.
7. Allow the dogs to coexist on opposite sides of the gate for some time. Basically, until they ignore each other’s presence.
8. For the first greeting, be sure the puppy is on a leash. Your job is to keep the puppy out of the adult dog’s face. Make the first greeting only a few seconds and then remove the puppy. As days go on, make each greeting longer.
9. Continually advocate for your adult dog.
10. Always monitor play and shut it down when it gets too rough.

Keep in mind that an adult dog can easily kill a puppy. If you allow chaos at the first greeting, you will have chaos in the relationship for a long time. Start with calm and expect calm, and that’s the relationship you will build.

04/01/2025

Are you into positive reinforcement? Good, so is your dog.

I talk about correction a lot. Why? Because no one really wants to talk about the ugly stuff. Even though I talk about it a lot, the training we do is mostly positive.

Our first goal, when a dog comes in, is to eliminate most unwanted behavior first. Our second goal is to figure out what the dog works for. For every dog, it's different. Most work for food. However, some dogs aren't food driven. Some other options for reward are affection or toys.

Find out what your dog really likes, and use it to your training advantage. Dogs are pretty selfish creatures. They all want something. You just have to figure out what it is.

03/01/2025

Warm 🌤️or Cold❄️
Rain🌧️or Shine☀️
It’s always training time!

02/01/2025

Going into the new year should be fun, relaxing, and full of new things! Teaching your pup to chill out on place is one of my very favorite things to do. It allows your pup to relax and add some peace and quiet in your home. It’s never too late to teach your pup something new!

30/12/2024

Cooper has joined us for training for the next few weeks! He came in very excited 💙💙

27/12/2024

Someone’s excited for his first day of training!!
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22/11/2024

The People Factor!

Not only do we work with dogs and their owners, we work with a lot of dog trainers. Trainers seek us for reasons that range from growing their business, to help with training techniques.

Something I hear regularly is, "I work with dogs, because I can't deal with people". Let me tell you how backwards that is...

Early on in dog training, I learned a valuable lesson. Dog training is less about the dogs and more about the people.

I can guarantee you, no one does the work they should at home after training. No one wants their dog to be as good as I know they can be. Lastly, and this is a big one to grasp, no one, and I mean NO ONE will reach the potential that I know is attainable, including me. The potential for learning has no limit... every dog that leaves us can better!

I like dogs a lot! I mean A LOT! However, I love people, and the interaction with them even more. People's questions never get on my nerves. If folks aren't getting it, I take joy in helping them figure it out. I love helping people, and the people I love helping, love helping their dogs. See how that works?!

My favorite thing about training is private and go home sessions. I love to teach and talk to people. I could do these sessions all day, in addition to training dogs, and I often do. The question I am always asking myself is, how can I communicate this better, and simpler. I work on effective and concise communication more than anything else.

You can be the best at doing something, but if you aren't able to communicate what you do to others, what good are you really doing?

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Counter Conditioning

This pup learned that acting scared got her attention. Any time you’d put a collar on, give a leash pull, or even stand she would cower. To overcome this we set up a station and combined low level ecollar taps with food. This will teach the dog that all of the training tools, leash, collars, etc. mean there is a reward involved. If you have a pup that has become tool adverse do this drill. Use a high value reward. This applies in so many areas. Nail trims, leash fear, brushing, you get the idea. This does take time but there, but if you’re consistent isn’t much you can’t overcome.

Working on Sending to place

Where do dogs really learn?

Max and CoCo live at the same house in Alabama. They have been on property with me for a week and a half. They go home in three days. In the beginning I trained them separately but now that we’re nearing the end of their time with me it was time to do their first walk together. They did so good

It may not seem like you’re making progress, but stay the course. Small wins daily end up with a huge win over time

What is my why? On the drive in to the training facility this morning I was reflecting. I always ask myself why did you start doing this? Why are you still doing this? What are the motives. My answer may surprise you.

Scooter AKA Lil Dude has the highest vertical of any dog I’ve ever had. Hmmmmm what can we do with this..

Today I did more work with Dallas and Cali. When they get back home, there will be a new baby and a very tired mommy. When new babies come home and there are dogs in the house the baby crying stimulates the dog’s prey drive. This causes a dog to be interested in the baby. The reality is, the baby can show the dog no value and the dog can show the baby no value until the baby is much older. Teaching a dog to go to place at the sound of a baby crying will prevent a lot of accidents from happening, as well as keep the dogs out of the baby space while Mom is doing Mom duties. So, we teach the dogs to go to place when the baby cries. The dog understands that on place is reward when this happens.

The pups in the video have a new baby human at home. In this video I’m teaching them to go to place when the baby cries

I don't think anyone is as excited as he is for Saturday FOOTBALL!!🏈🏈 What's your favorite football team? #nashvilledogtrainer #dogtraining #nashvilletrainer #wtnk9nashville #footballfans #football

I wonder what’s she’s thinking about.

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