Winnie- heads up heel!
Miss Winnie and I are working to perfect the beautiful heads up heel!! ❤️❤️🐾💪
Winnie- enrichment
Winnie is the new pup in obedience training. I recently put a couple of the new kennels on the back porch now that it’s cooled off. This has created a fabulous enrichment space, so the dogs can play, solve puzzles, master body awareness and entertain themselves while I’m training other dogs or meeting private lesson clients. I’m so excited that it’s cooled off, giving me the opportunity to its luxe my outdoor spaces! 🙏❤️
Winnie is mastering the wobble board while she tries to find every morsel of peanut butter and sweet potato cookies stuffed in the chicken feeder on a bungee cable. 💪💪 🧠 🧠
I got a little creative with my Halloween decor this year…
Lady
Lady is a 9 week old puppy in jump start. She came from a fabulous breeder who temperament tested the litter and chose Lady specifically for her family. They have two tween girls and really wanted a calm, snuggly puppy.
Well Lady is all those things, but she’s SOOO people oriented that she is highly prone to develop separation anxiety. Anytime I walk away from Lady, she begins scream crying, and will continue on and off for HOURS. As humans, our natural instinct is typically to think that something is wrong, be it the crate, she’s too young, she’s not ready etc. and to get her out of the crate when she cries and is inconsolable. But this would only reinforce this behavior and would certainly create separation anxiety.
So I created a training plan to help Lady enjoy and even look forward to time outside without me. Each day I change up the obstacles and toys in her pin, and I adjust the treats and food sprinkled, from very simple and requiring minimal effort. To hiding underneath things, hung on toys, or stuck in peanut butter, so she has to investigate and explore to find and access the food and treats.
Lady is practicing 4 hour stints in her crate during the day to help her progress into longer periods of time. She’s not ready for a full 8 hour night yet and because of her barking issue, if I take her out in the middle of the night to potty, she will scream for the next 4 hours 😱 so we do daytime crate training in preparation for transitioning to 8 hours at night.
I have also filled her space with physical challenges to build body awareness and confidence- like the balance board, toys hung from a bungee chord, the pool with slowly increasing amounts of water. Body awareness training helps decreaseher lifelong risk of injury, and builds her confidence in any situation or environment.
If I cannot correct a behavior (because Lady is only 9 weeks old she’s too young for a traditional correction for severe demand barking) the next best thing is to in
Pops the Service Dog
Pops, the service dog in training practicing a bark alert command when his owner pretends to fall. Pops is being trained to stay with his owner until help arrives and bark continuously. Today was our first lesson where we transitioned this training outside. Pops did a fabulous job of not getting distracted but sticking with his job!
We offer a variety of custom tasks designed to meet the needs of many people who need service dogs. Visit our website to learn more about some of the tasks we train for!
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Place training in the house
Our training programs are designed for dogs who live in the house- so we take practicing our skills in the house seriously!
Lainey graduated from board and train obedience with me about a year ago. Her family is expecting a new, very small addition! 🎉 so they decided to send her back for some touchup work and to progress her skills even father!
Today she did an extended place stay while I prepared and ate lunch. Good girl!! 💪💪
Because your dog will feel right at home, here in my home ❤️❤️
Item retrieval
This is Muffin! She’s a pup from our 2023 Reecie X Scout litter. Muffin is a service dog in training, I meet with her owner weekly in the self train model. Muffin’s owner does all of the training under my direction.
Muffin has been working for several months to stretch out her item retrieval- retrieving a pill bottle for her owner. We started at first building confidence jumping up on counters, or grabbing the pill bottle off of a table. And as of now, Muffin can independently go upstairs, search for and identify the correct pill bottle, and bring it down to her owner.
Service dog training starts with choosing the right puppy for your job, so reach out to us today to learn more about the kind of dog who will best meet your needs! ❤️❤️🐾🐾
Place before going through the door- Rubi the daycare dog
Rubi (from our Reecie X Scout 2023 litter) is a home daycare dog! Studies show that children raised around dogs are less likely to experience allergies, and have higher levels of empathy and compassion than their peers!
So this home daycare owner decided to bring a well bred dog into her program!
Before coming to training Rubi was struggling with bumping into kids while going out the glass door for play time, and knocking over the baby gate to greet parents during drop off.
I used place training and a couple of willing house dogs to act as my “excited daycare kids” to train Rubi to place beside doors, wait for the kids to go through, and come out last.
We also taught her an interior threshold command, “wait” which keeps Rubi in the living room when a parent comes to the door, but allows her to step up for pets, and then back behind the threshold before the front door opens again.
I spent several hours with Rubi, her Mom, Dad and the daycare kids showing her family how to use her training to get the very best outcomes for their environment. I wish I could have made a video of all the cute kiddos lining up to pet Rubi, and filing in and out of the door to test her new skills. Way to go Rubi!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️🐾🐾
Aspen- advanced obedience
