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Let us bring balance to your (fur) family! We offer multiple package for private training. We can https://linktr.ee/bluedogtrainingco

01/19/2023

09/07/2022

Do you know how to interact with a service dog in public. The way you treat a service dog team could mean the difference between life or death for someone.

During National Service Dog Month take some time to become educated on the way to support the service dog community.

06/27/2022

Are you preparing for the fourth? If your dog has severe anxiety reach out to your vet now. If you have a puppy start playing firework sounds tracks so they know sounds and can associate it with something positive. Plan to be home with your pets!

06/16/2022

It’s hot out today! The asphalt temperature is going to be significantly higher than the air temperature. Today the asphalt has reached 124 F. Boots will prevent your dogs from getting burnt paws. You can purchase cost effective ones at PetSmart and Amazon. Ruffwear, muttlucks are also good brands that will last longer.

06/13/2022

I had a great time evaluating this guy for service work, a couple of weeks ago. He has great potential to make a great service dog for his handler!

If you have questions about having your dog evaluated for service work or what it takes to train a service dog send us an email at [email protected]

06/07/2022

I've noticed I have some new followers here! Welcome! I'm glad you're here!

I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Jennie Kate Carr. I use she/ her pronouns. I am disabled and am a service dog handler myself. I am married to partner, my husband, Matthew Carr for almost a year now.

I have a bachelor's degree in animal science from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville and I have experience in animal behavior, husbandry, education, and safe animal handling across multiple species. I am trained in multiple ways of dog training. I do practice LIMA training and will use aversive tools (prongs, e-collars, head collars, ect) when they are needed. However I am very picky about the kind, brand, and method of using and conditioning the dog to those tools.

If you have questions feel free to leave them in the comments or send me an email at [email protected].

06/01/2022

I am so proud of how proud this team has come since we've been working together. They've recently earned their S.T.A.R. puppy title and their Virtual Home Manners Puppy Title.

Leave your congratulations for them in the comments below!

04/11/2022

Happy national pet day!!! Leave us a picture of your pets in the comment (dog or not)!

04/08/2022

Happy Friday!

ID: A German Shepard puppy with a black and brown coat is sitting down in the grass. The puppy is licking its muzzle. The left ear is sticking up and the right ear is flopped down.

04/07/2022

As someone that helps people train their own service dog (and a service dog handle myself), I've seen the whole gamete of how people act when they see a working dog in public.

While we do work hard to train our dogs to work through it interaction can still be distracting, just like constant interaction is distracting for most people.

So if you are passing a working dog in public please just ignore it (don't stare, don't make sounds, etc), and if you are interacting with the handler please speak directly to us not to dog.

If you would like PA training for your service dog contact me at [email protected]

04/04/2022

Congratulations to Penny and her humans, the Self family, for earning her AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy title this week.
They are doing everything they can to make sure that Penny is off the right start as a puppy!

The S.T.A,R. Puppy title is a great start to earning the CGC and other becoming a well behaved dog,

Leave your congratulations for Penny and her humans below!

If you have questions about training or the Canine Good Citizen program email me at [email protected]

03/25/2022

The reason I set individual goals for each dog is that each dog needs different things. Also each dog needs to learn different things. Service dogs needs to learn manners than pets need to learn. Each service dog trainer will have training unique to their handler. Each pet will have unique training to their home life and their background. Not every dog needs to learn to learn retrievals. Not all dogs will learn to sit when you stop walking. But most dogs can learn to sit, stay, and not pull on the leash. Contact me today for your unique training plan for your dog! Email me at [email protected]

03/21/2022

We’re back from vacation! I’m working my through responding to messages and emails! I’m excited to get back to work with clients!

03/15/2022

We’re out of town this week so response times will be a little slower. I (Jennie) appreciate your patience with me as I enjoy this time with my family!

03/01/2022

How do you adventure with your dogs?

02/22/2022

What's the makes the a service dog so different from all the all other dogs? They have the desire to do kind that they want to do. They spend about 2 years learning to work their disabled human. Not only does this dog have advanced obedience down, they also can help make a disabled persons life easier.

Some service dogs only work in the home and those are real service dogs. Some go out into public and are with us most of the time and those are real too.

Have question? Email me a [email protected]

01/25/2022

When people outside of the balanced dog training community they offer refer to this method as a punishment based method. That couldn't be farther from the truth.

The fact of the matter is that we, balanced trainers, use more positive reinforcement than correction. We aim for at least 80% positive reinforcement and no more than 20% correction.

If you would like to set up a consult and discuss my training method click the link in the linktree or email me at [email protected]

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Foundations are important. If you hear the clicking, this first thing I conditioned Emma to was the clicker. She knows a click means that’s the correct thing. I always encourage people to market train their dogs. I’m a session we’ll talk more about that (I can also make a separate post about it). When you first get a dog the first things you do with them are the things that stick with them for the rest of their life. With puppies they’re the most moldeable at that point of their life. If you have a rescue then you have to build trust and teach them that you can be trusted and that they can trust your leadership. We then build up obedience from that foundation.

This is Emma’s task called crowd control. When I feel like I need space or her and I as a team need more space, I ask her to circle. I have C-PTSD from surviving Domestic Violence and this task helps me to stay calm and in my body when I’m in triggering spaces. Dogs are helpful to domestic violence survivors. They bring comfort and grounding even as pets. Did you know that only 15% of domestic violence shelters allow dogs. That means survivors have to stay with abusers to keep their animals safe or leave their animals with their abusers. @purina has the #purpleleashproject to help more pet friendly shelters for survivors. They have partnered with @redroverorg to do this. Give them all a follow and join me in helping me with their mission!

While this doesn’t look appealing to humans eating a duck head enriches Emma’s environment. As dog owners there’s a lot we can do to give our dogs high quality environments. I recently wrote a blog post about what enrichment is and things other than training that help give your dog a high quality environment in your home! Check out the link in the comments below for the blog post!

Bathtime Training

What is something you think is important to train an animal to do? I think it’s important to train an animal to participate in their care, or husbandry practices. This training makes it’s easier on us as owners and on the dog or any animal. I did train my childhood dog to get into the bathtub because she weighed over 100 pounds and weighed under 100 pounds; so there was no way I could get here in an out of the tub to care for her. I really learned the importance of this training when I worked zoological facilities in my twenties and learned training procedures that allow the animals to partake in their husbandry procedures. If you any problems having your dog participate in their care let us know. It takes time to train but it’s worth it and I’d love to work with you in training it!! This video shows what training looks like to have a dog trained to get into the bathtub. (She also just plays in the bathtub so she’s not forced to do this) Email us today! Email: [email protected]

Due to some medical testing this past week, Emma and I were home bound. This meant that we were limited to doing training drills with no to limited distractions. Last night we went out with my husband to Walmart and while he shopped we took advantage of that time to film some training drills. They’re a little rusty but that’s ok. We never expect perfect from a dog. Dogs are not robots they’re animals. * Emma is a task trained service animal. Only task trained service animals may perform public access *

Happy weekend from Blue Dog Training Co!