Upper Snake River Valley Dog Training Club

06/20/2024

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I set this kennel in the back of my pickup for 15 minutes. Temperature outside is 89 degrees. Digital temperature gauge inside kennel was 104 degrees at end of 15 minutes. We pulled a large dog from this kennel in the back of a pickup ...body temp was 104.3 degrees! Please educate through sharing this.

02/01/2024

All breeders are not the same and how dare anyone imply that.

I passionately support preservation breeders and purposefully bred, purebred dogs.

A preservation breeder cares about the quality of their chosen breed. You know what type of temperament to expect with your puppy, and that your dogs appearance is being bred to their standard. They carefully chose stellar examples of the breed to pair them.

A BYB throws any two “purebreds” together - often the two dogs they own. They care nothing regarding the quality example of the breed. The BYB lacks passion and only see money to be made. Purebred does not equal WELL BRED. AKC papers or any papers are NOT a sign of quality - papers simply acknowledge it’s a purebred dog. It can be a crappy bred purebred dog - know the difference.

A preservation breeder cares who is getting their puppies, asks questions and possibly checks references. They take their puppies/dogs back if something happens and would be horrified if one of their puppies end up in a shelter.

A byb doesn’t care who gets their puppies - if you have the money, they have the puppy. They couldn’t care less what happens to the pup after money is in their pocket - they were paid.

A preservation breeder is passionate about their breed. They study the history, the standard and do their best to create beautiful examples of what their breed should be.

A BYB just throws two of the same breed dogs
together.

A preservation breeder health tests the mating pair of any known issues their breed might experience and often tests beyond the basic/minimal health testing requirements. This can include a deep look at their heart health, possible blood disorders (such as vWD), checking organs (such as kidney and thyroid), x-ray hips and elbows, having eyes examined- and many more breed specific tests. The tests run many hundreds of dollars.

A BYB might take their breeding pair for a quick once over by a vet. Maybe.

A preservation breeder titles their breeding dogs in sport to try to prove a solid and stable temperament and/or also title in conformation (Ch title) in a respectful venue to show the dog structure is bred to a high standard. It’s not easy to title and not cheap. It costs THOUSANDS of dollars to achieve titles .

A BYB usually has zero titles but claim “Ch lines” from a dog that is in pedigree. News Flash - vast majority of dogs will have a titled dog somewhere in their pedigree. They are not personally titling their dogs and could care less if dog has a solid temperament or has standard to breed looks. They are not spending a dime to prove anything. They have “purebreds” and they will sell you a puppy. Often the puppies looks and temperament are wrong for the breed - but they don’t care.

A preservation breeder works on the puppies early experiences - they introduce new surfaces, noise, environment, people including children , plus start crate training and housebreaking. They won’t let puppies leave until they are of the right age.

A BYB interacts with the puppies as little as possible and want out of their house ASAP - many let pups leave even when illegal or not recommended to do so . *8 weeks is the minimum age by law in most states!*

Please DO shop.
For what makes a good breeder or a good rescue. Research. Dig.

“Rescuing” that dog off Craigslist for $200 or “rescuing” that puppy for $500 - yeah congratulations you just most likely paid a BYB. 🙄 but you “rescued” so that was the moral high ground - btw that’s sarcasm in case that’s lost on anyone.

Please don’t give money to BYB who line the shelters, sell sick dogs or neurotic dogs and certainly could careless about their well being.

A step in stopping the extreme animal rights propaganda is by telling our story with regarding who a preservation breeder is and why you should support them along with rescue.

A preservation breeder is a warrior for dogs and the purebred kennel clubs are often the biggest supporter of their breeds rescue.

Don’t be fooled - by BYB breeders and the extreme rhetoric of Animal Right Propaganda who hardly have a dogs best interest in mind.

I 💗 PURPOSEFULLY PUREBRED DOGS, PROUDLY BRED BY PRESERVATIONISTS.

Feel free to copy and paste with pictures of your well bred, purebred and very loved dog.

01/30/2024

01/26/2024

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Let’s set the scene. This may become a bit sensitive for some, and I apologise in advance.

You’re out somewhere. You might be at a restaurant, a bar, a public park on a sunny day enjoying the sunshine with your family. It may be that you’re on your way home from work or trying to catch the bus. You’re just minding your own business.

Suddenly, a person comes straight up to you. They give you anxiety. What is this person going to do? I don’t know! The person is walking with a friend and the friend sees you’re a bit anxious and calls out to you saying “Don’t stress, she/he’s all good!’’ But they keep approaching you. And when they finally reach you they randomly hug you. Touch you. Walk circles around you. Start talking to you. Don’t let you leave.

What would you call that? Harassment? Assault in severe cases?
How would this make you feel?

Now, after the initial shock you find your courage and you ask the person to go away. Leave you alone. But the person doesn’t stop and instead touches your arm or your hair. “Oh come on, we’re alright. I’m not doing anything bad I’m friendly! Just let me be around you.’’You get upset and might push the person. Shout at them. If you’re a bit more of an assertive person you might punch them. Who knows.
Then the person and the friend get upset. Well? WHY are you here then? What are you doing in this public space if you don’t like being around other people? You have no business to be here, minding your own business in this park with your family without allowing me to sit with you, play with you, touch you, talk to you. Actually, you know what you should do? You should be more social! You should go more often to random groups of people.

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Do you see what I did there?
If you thought any of the above situation is not okay (and I sure as heck hope you do), then why do we think it’s okay to let dogs run up to strange dogs and say ‘It’s okay he’s friendly’?

What we do in the dog world is the exact opposite what we should be doing. We label the harassed dog as aggressive and the harassing dog as the victim.

Dogs have emotions. They have feelings. They have their own characters and personalities. There are many, many dogs that are not interested in making new friends or being with dogs they don’t know they can trust.

And sure, some dogs love playing with other dogs. Those are the extraverted dogs. Just like we have people that LOVE hugging or love making new friends even as adults, but to be honest.. how many of those people do you know? I think if you put it into a % its lower than the people that rather just are with their select group of people and be left alone by random strangers in public spaces.

So don’t assume the dog your dog is running towards on the beach, is willing to play with your dog. Being in a public space means you need to have your dog under effective control. And if you can’t call your dog back, it should be on a long line until you can.

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In case you’re interested.. after quite a few requests I made a video version of this blog as well.

Your dog is NOT friendly, he's harassing others
https://youtu.be/YlWf02MHKCo

01/16/2024

Winter obedience/rally and Agility handling classes are now online at our website USRVDTC.org

10/24/2023

Reposted from The Good Dog Training and Rehabilitation

Here’s another post I share annually. Many, many owners (and trainers) have found life changing insight and value from this short read. I hope it’s helpful. 🙏
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Okay, so this is a word that gets an awful lot of play in the training world, and it’s definition has come to mean an awful lot of things. Many of which, are incredibly counter-productive, if not downright dangerous.

So let’s see if we can’t clarify a few things.

Socialization isn’t:
-About letting your dog freely interact with dogs at the dog park, day care, or with friends dogs.
-About allowing your dog to meet other dogs on-leash.
-About allowing all manner of people, in all manner of mental/emotional states interact/pet/pressure your dog.
-About exposing your dog to the sights and sounds of cars, buses, motorcycles, bikes, skateboards, joggers...and allowing them to freak out, panic, aggress, hide, bark etc.
-About exposing your dog to the sights and sounds of dogs, cats, and other animals, and allowing them to freak out, aggress, lunge, bark, growl etc.

Socialization is:
-About teaching your dog the proper responses to dogs. What is and isn’t appropriate behavior, and correcting the unwanted when it appears.
-About teaching your dog to walk by the barking, lunging dog(s) on walks and ignore them, completely. Correcting if necessary to achieve this result.
-About advocating for your dog and ensuring people aren’t allowed to pressure your dog, by touching, crouching down, attempting “kisses” etc. That means being a big boy or girl, and stopping others from engaging in unwanted, uninvited interactions.
-About exposing your dog to all manner of daily life “things” and ensuring a proper response. If aggression/arousal is present, it’s corrected, if fear/arousal is present (and causes an overreaction/fleeing etc.) it’s corrected. Ask your dog to learn to ignore and not care about these “life” distractions/concerns/temptations. Teach them to listen to the training, not the world around them.
-About teaching your dog to leave other creatures alone. The cat, the bird, the cow, the goat, the other dog, is simply none of their business. If they decide those things are their business, it’s your job to correct and clarify what is and isn’t their business for them.

Socialization has become a ridiculously simplified, dumbed down, all-encompassing idea. Free interaction and exposure have been presented as a panacea, the magic gateway to a balanced dog. That’s a whole lot of B.S. you’ve been sold, by a lot of people full of B.S. 🙂

Socialization is all about teaching your dog how to behave and exist in the world...properly. People have a belief that only interactions create a well socialized dog. They don’t understand that existence is almost always preferable, and more valuable than actual interaction. Yes exposure is critical, but exposure without 100% clear guidance, and corrections for poor choices, isn’t socialization, it’s chaos, and it’s not teaching your dog what’s right, what’s wrong, and that you’ll keep them safe, so they don’t have to.

A well socialized dog isn’t fazed by the world around them. And that doesn’t come from simple exposure and interactions without guidance. Ironically, that’s precisely how you create anti-social dogs.

Think on that for a minute.

03/30/2023

Mark your calendars....the Blackfoot cluster is just around the corner!

11/30/2022

Christmas Party - December 10th, 6 pm, sign up now

Hand Carved Roast Beef or Broasted Chicken with Mashed Potatoes (brown or cream gravy), dinner salad, fresh rolls with butter, homemade country cakes, water and punch

11/29/2022

11/17/2022

Club Meeting tonight (11/17) 7 pm at Plum Loco

11/17/2022

adopting a puppy, caring for puppies, most important dog commands, how to train a puppy, puppy socialization, puppy socialization checklist, important puppy lessons

11/06/2022

Don’t miss this great opportunity!

Upper Snake River Valley Dog Training Club

Is excited to sponsor:

Scent & Detection
November 18, 19, & 20, 2022
Bonneville County Fairgrounds, Idaho Falls, ID

Facilitated by: Natalie Morris & Cameron Ford

In this seminar we cover how to maintain your dog and go even further to challenge you and the dog to get fully prepared to meet the new higher levels of scrutiny, competition and search deployments dog teams face today. We also address common problems that teams face as detection searches become more complicated and difficult. We will push you in searches that are single blind as well as maybe “all clear” This seminar is for ALL DETECTION DOGS from professionals Police/Security K9, Search and Rescue, Conservation K9 to all Sport detection dogs. If you do detection this seminar is for you!! Teams must be at the intermediate to advanced levels.

Natalie Morris is a trainer and manager at Ford K9, where she helps oversee Fordk9’s daily operations such as puppy and adult development and selection, Sport Detection classes and coaching, as well as local classes and education for the sport of Scent work. Natalie has been training dogs and teaching owners in the Las Vegas Valley for 10 years, teaching hundreds of puppy and adult classes as well as assisting owners in behavioral modification plans and improving the bond between both ends of the leash. In 2011 Natalie was drawn to the world of K9 olfaction and detection through the sport of K9 Scent Work, when she began training and trialing her personal dogs for the sport. Over the years, after training and trialing multiple dogs through the higher levels of the sport and continuously being humbled and amazed at her canine partners’ olfaction ability, it became clear that this is what she wanted to spend all of her time doing. Natalie joined the FordK9 team in early 2021 to pursue her passion for training dogs and teaching handlers how to develop the skills needed to be at the top of their game, whether training for the sport of scent detection or professional handling. In her free time Natalie continues to trial and compete in scent work with her personal dogs, including a young Border Collie named Gus who will be competing for the first time in the fall of 2021!

Cameron Ford has been in K-9 for 27 years. First serving the U.S. Air Force as a Military Working Dog Handler and trainer. Cameron is one of very few Americans ever to attend the German Polizei working dog school in Eckenbach Germany. Cameron also visited and trained at the Dutch Politie Scent Dog School in Nunspeet Holland. Police officer in FL and TX, working as a Police Officer, SWAT officer and K9 Trainer in FL then in Texas as Police Officer K-9 handler and SWAT operator. In recent years worked in the Government Contractor field overseeing training and deployment of over 300 K-9 teams in the middle east. Sr. Instructor / MultiPurpose Canine for Naval Special Warfare Group 1 (SEAL Teams 1,3,5 and 7). Cameron is currently a CA POST K-9 Team Evaluator NPCA Certifying official in (Detection and Patrol) CNCA Evaluator (Detection and Patrol) DrugBeat Detection K9 Evaluator and NACSW Judge. In addition, currently working with Duke University on canine cognition as it relates to patrol and detection dogs. Also, a Researcher with Texas Tech University Canine Olfaction and Forensic Laboratories. Board member of the American Association of Forensic Science (Canine and Sensors committee) and Consulting Expert for NESDCA (National Entomology Scent Detection Canine Association). Currently, Owner and K9 Instructor for Ford K9 LLC based in Las Vegas Nevada and Host of the hit Podcast “K9s Talking Scents”

Working Spot:

Active USRVDTC Club Members $150.00
Inactive USRVDTC Club Members $200.00
Non-club Members $350.00


Auditing Spot:
Active USRVDTC Club Members $75.00
Inactive USRVDTC Club Members $100.00
Non-club Members $175.00

11/05/2022

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y1tq0iNzQFbl15LIw6YSpQR1M4KSN8gQ/view

11/02/2022

Check out our website for updates on meetings, trials, etc.

November 17th, 7 pm at Plum Loco - General Meeting
December 3, 4 - Scent Work Trial - premium list posted

November Membership Meeting October 14, 2022October 14, 2022 Suzanne Belger Leave a comment November 17, 2022, 7:00 pm, Plum Loco.

10/13/2022

Reminder, monthly meeting date changed to October 13, that’s tonight. 7 pm at Plum Loco on Cliff St.

09/28/2022

A new way to socialize puppies. A fantastic way to ensure you are growing your dog's confidence as you expose them to the sights and sounds of life!

09/20/2022

Check it out

Get started on some doggone good science!

06/24/2022

AKC obedience and Rally Premium Lists for August Trials available at www.usrvdtc.org

Upper Snake River Dog Training Club PLEASE NOTE: We recently had problems with the website that have been corrected. Thank you for your patience. About Upper Snake River Valley Dog Training Club The Upper Snake River Valley Dog Training Club (USRVDTC) is an all breed dog club located in Eastern Idah...

05/31/2022

Next round of classes start in September.

05/04/2022

03/26/2022



03/26/2022

Highlights from USRVDTC’s recent sponsored “Odor Pays” Seminar presented by Ford’s K9

One of the best seminars for scentwork.

03/09/2022