Mecham Frenchies

I get a lot of questions about how I train my dogs, I don't profess to be a professional trainer, but I thought I would do a video of what Kog and I have been working on. It was a bit harder than I thought trying to work the camera and grab the leash or distractions, but Kog was great about it. Hopefully you can see what's going on. Unfortunately, I haven't been as consistent as I would like to have been with Kog's training with puppy distractions, but he has been such a joy to work with and learns so quickly. I trained for obedience shows when I was a teen and showed my Samoyed back then. I don't use treats for obedience training, I use the show what you want repeatedly, be consistent, and praise method. Kog has learned the basic training at this point, heel (on left side head stays right in front of your leg, with a loose leash), sit, then automatic sit any time you stop, sit and stay with distractions, down and stay with distractions, come, auto sit in front and then finish back to your left side to heel again. The last step is stand for examination by a judge and we have not started that yet. We still have a lot of training to perfect in the house as well, especially when strangers come to the house, but we are getting there, slowly and surely. I'm taking this time before having pups again to get these basics down really well so he'll be ready for the next steps this summer. Hope this video helps.

The Grand Finale! Now for some new tricks....

Trying some dual tricks with these 2. ❤️

Kog my dancing boy, he cracks me up, there is never a dull moment, so handsome and sweet🩷 He is take coming along with his training, I'll have to post some videos, he's just so smart.

Nebula is so willing to try things, I love that about her. It's not always perfect, but you get the idea. 🥰

Mr Kog has a few tricks up his sleeves. He does the cutest beg pose ever and gives a pretty good high 5 or 15, lol. Love this little guy and his spunk ❤️

Our Andi girl can catch that vitamin pretty well. She is such a fun girl, she talks with her eyes and is very interested in whatever you are doing.🥰

We've been working on a few fun tricks at our house for awhile with our adults. So I decided I should show what we've learned so far. Nebi/Nebula spinning for us. She loves doing tricks and has been so easy to train. We are still working on training, when pups come that's usually when we get off track, lol. I'm not sure training is truly ever finished. I don't typically give my dogs treats, but I do use their vitamins as incentive sometimes for tricks. For Training I use the reward/consequence method, another name is positive reinforcement method, which I find works much better for frenchies than treats. When you don't have the treats, they know.... they are so smart!!

Skye is such an awesome momma @morningskyeretrievers these babies are getting so big and doing so well. 6 girls and 1 boy!! Ready to go home after Christmas. You will be able to pick up these pups in Nebraska and Colorado. Reserve your pup today!

This is how excited Colossus was to see his daddy before he went to his new home. I love how sweet and patient Kog is with him. I'm finding cute pictures and videos of these babies that I forgot to post.

A quick video of Polaris. She is so precious, love her personality 💕

Kog being so sweet to Cyclops the blue pied and Sonny the blue brindle

Sonny, the blue, and Colossus, the lilac sable, are really loving that toy. They had so much fun together before Sonny went to his furever home. 🥰

Sonny (blue brindle male) and Cher (solid black female) absolutely love playing together. They are the last pups from Rhett, who is now retired. They are just perfect and so playful.

Polaris (pink collar- solid blue) and Mystique (green collar-blue brindle) are like identical twins. The only difference is some brindle and a white mark on Mystiques chest.. they are the same size, shape, head, face, and body. They are both amazing and unbelievably affectionate.

These boys are having so much fun playing around. Magneto (solid blue) and Cyclops (blue pied) are so fun and sweet. I love the floppy ears. They aren't loving the temp collars too much, they keep scratching at them.

Pheonix (the lighter one) and Colossus( darker) playing around. These 2 are too adorable.

And my personal favorite, you gotta give props to that cowboy, he went through a lot, but he's still smiling. Kog's technique of trying to rub him off didn't quite work out. 🤣😂🤣

Kog at it again, he just gave up at the end, the cowboy's face says it all, he is definitely feeling pretty good at the end.🤣😂

Kog doing the death spin, he caught that cowboy at the end🤣😂