Marge LOVES playing with the flirt pole for physical enrichment!
Anyone else’s dog love to chase?!
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Holly and Frankie knew just how to break in our new frisbees for yard enrichment time! #dogs #grandrapidsdogs #michigandogs #grandrapidsdogtraining #eastgrandrapids #dogtraining #dogwalker #grandrapidsdogwalking
Walk & Train Feature: Ares
Ares is an adult border collie who gets overstimulated by dogs and critters in the environment. We are working on building engagement on our walks by learning fun patterns with Ares.
What is the pattern we are looking on for engagement and leash skills?
🐾 First, we taught Ares that "yes" or click= treat
🐾 Then, we taught Ares any time he checks in that equals we move forward and get a treat drop.
🐾 We also taught Ares that when he sees a dog or critter that he will hear "yes" or click and that means we will move away from the trigger and get his treat!
This helps Ares to learn that checking in PAYS well and is much easier to keep the leash loose versus pulling ahead!
Looking for help with your reactive dog on walks? Shoot us a DM saying "REACTIVE WALKS" to set up a Meet & Greet!
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Walk & Train Feature: Lunamaria
Luna has big feelings about various stimuli in the city (squirrels, dogs, bikes, motorcycles, and sometimes men). This can make walks tricky as Luna’s way of communicating is by barking and lunging.
Luna is here to demonstrate one of our favorite techniques: “Go Sniff”.
This is where we toss a handful of treats on the ground while saying “go sniff”. We teach this to pups so they learn to sniff the ground when a trigger presents to prevent a reaction and to sniff instead.
Drop a 🎉 to celebrate Luna’s success!
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Check out Frankie and Holly being introduced to the flirt pole!
The flirt pole can be a wonderful way to channel your dog's natural prey drive onto a toy! This can be a super fun way to add some physical enrichment to your dog's day!
Drop a comment below if your dog loves the flirt pole too! ⤵️
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Walk & Train Feature: Jolie
Sam demonstrates "Wait" which is one of the many skills that Jolie has been working on during her walk & trains.
Wait is such a useful cue when out on walks to help teach your dog what you'd like them to do when they get to roads, so they don't walk out into traffic!
Do you have a wait cue for your pup? Drop a comment below ⤵️
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Scarlett, Charli, Poly, and Casey know how to have a good time having a backyard sniffari!
Drop a 👃 below if your dog/s like to sniff for treats in the yard!
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Walk & Train: Frankie
Frankie had a hard life before coming to his new family. He's been working on feeling brave when he sees people.
How are we helping him?
Any time he sees a human, we say the magical "yes" word and he disengages to get a yummy treat!
This not only teaches him a new pattern of coping with his feelings, but also helps change his emotions around people!
Drop a 🎉 to celebrate Frankie and all his hard work!
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Nova is here to wish everyone a happy and safe 4th of July! #eastgrandrapids #grandrapids #michigandogs #dogstagram #dogtraining #dogwalking #grandrapidsdogs #dogsofinstagram #dogsofmichigan #eastowngr #grandrapidsmi
Walk & Train Feature: Holly:
Holly is working on loose leash walking skills here. 🦮
One of our favorite tips for leash walking is utilizing auto check-ins: This is when your dog naturally checks in with you on their own. When they do orient towards you, you mark "yes" and give them a treat.
Holly LOVES her treats and we've been doing this for multiple sessions now, so she knows it PAYS to check-in often and keep the loose leash! 🤩
DM WALK if you'd like more information on our Walk & Train services to support you and your pup make walks more enjoyable while you are at work!
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Scarlett and Marge know how to keep cool while having fun this Summer!
Here the girls are sniffing and bobbing for treats!
Drop a 🐾 below if your pup enjoys sniffing games!
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Walk & Train Feature: Luca
Luca is working on building up his stays! He likes to move fast, so staying still can be tough!
We started slow: 1-2 seconds before releasing and now Luca is up to 20-30 second stays with ease!
Drop a 🎉 below to cheer Luca on!
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🙌 When you learn that recall is FUN and pays WELL! 🙌
Luca is part of our Walk & Train program!
He is a young adolescent working on building the following:
1. Recall-coming when called
2. Loose leash walking skills
3. How to see exciting things in the environment (dogs, people, birds) and learn new coping skills to replace lunging and barking
Drop a 🙌 below to cheer Luca on for his successes!
⭐️ Interested in learning more about our Walk & Train program to help you train your dog while you’re at work?
Check out our website here: https://wildandfreepetservices.com
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🐾 Eddie and George are two happy labs that joined the Wild & Free Walk & Train Program recently to learn loose leash walking skills to help make walks more enjoyable for the whole family. 🐾
You may be wondering, “A lab can loose leash walk and not pull?!” The answer is YES!
Check out this demo showing how to work with Eddie on the foundational skills of handler engagement and positioning in a low distraction environment before taking the skills outdoors!
Stay tuned for progress videos! 🤩
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We LOVE watching Charli perform her post walk zoomies! She is just TOO cute!!
Anyone else’s pup like to do a zoom after their walks?
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Here’s Marge showing off her tricks on a rainy, wet day to get some mental enrichment in! Drop your pups’ best tricks below! 👇 We’d love to see them!
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Nova here is enrolled in our Walk & Train Program at Wild & Free! This is where we come to your house, take your pup out on the walk, AND train them for you!
Nova has been working on her loose leash walking skills, excitable frustration when seeing other dog friends, and prey drive towards squirrels.
Just check out this little girl’s amazing skills! Want to know more about this program? Head to our website for more information: https://wildandfreepetservices.com
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Luna here is demonstrating a parkour behavior called Paws Up. This is where we teach our dogs to place their 2 paws up on various surfaces!
This behavior can be used for many different situations:
1. A fun new trick for your pup to keep their brain busy.
2. It can be a fun, helpful trick on walks to give your dog something to do when faced with a trigger to help mitigate a reaction.
3. It can be a fun way to interact with new environments.
Does your pup know paws up? Let us know below!👇
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We are so grateful for each and every one of you for making 2023 a great year! Cheers to 2024!
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When we met Yuki, we couldn’t help ourselves with teaching her some nosework! Yuki took to the sport so fast with her shepherd nose and absolutely loves getting in her mental enrichment in along with her walks! Have you tried any Nosework games with your pups? Drop your comments below! 👇
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