Happy Tails Family Dog Training

04/21/2024

04/15/2024

WEBINAR: 50% Discount “Odor Pays: Step 1 How to Introduce Odor” Learn Sport Detection Secrets Directly From World Renowned Dog Trainers! Limited Time Offer: Learn from the pros: Ready to start your dog on odor? This webinar goes over odor introduction, Step 1 in the “Ford K9 Odor Pays System.....

03/27/2024

Viviane Arzoumanian-in the NYTimes.

A suit claims that an emotional support dog named Sam attacked several tenants at an Upper West Side building and that the animal’s owners failed to take preventative action.

03/21/2024

https://simplero.com/d/gJ3u3gnueN5EQsnE/c/5518869/2

03/12/2024

Facenabbed from Pumpkin Pups

https://www.facebook.com/seespotlearn/posts/809631541172873

03/08/2024

Keep on Truckin (for those in the know). Wish Draper could have been there with me, fabulous hiking trails for onleash fun.

02/14/2024

https://soultouchedbydogs.com/panic-to-peace?rh=gHA49GTTnw

For virtual conference for dogs lovers hosted by Anke Herrmann

02/01/2024

01/07/2024

It’s tough to have to face up to this but incompetent force-free trainers do us no favors if clients move on to aversives-oriented trainers who *do* give them solutions. These clients become walking adverts for the virtues of “balanced” training.

Join us tomorrow (January 8th) for a Facebook Live, 1pm EST | 10am PST.

12/28/2023

Things that will not improve your dog’s behavior:

👎🏻 being a stronger alpha

👎🏻 Making your dog wait for you to go through doors first

👎🏻 Taking your dog’s stuff away to prove you can

👎🏻 Using collar corrections

👎🏻 Physically pushing and pulling on your dog to move them or get them into sits/downs

👎🏻 Messing with your dog while they eat

👎🏻 Thinking that your dog is spiteful or trying to “get back” at you

👎🏻 Forcing your dog off of furniture to prove its “yours”

👎🏻 Forcing your dog to deal with something even if they are afraid or growling

👎🏻 Looking at aggression as something that needs to be punished out

👎🏻 Forcing your dog onto their back to get them to “submit”

👎🏻 Forcing your dog to “face their fears” by forcing interactions with other dogs and people

👎🏻 Relying on equipment that causes discomfort or pain to control them

👎🏻 Responding to a dog behaving aggressively with more of your own aggression

👎🏻 Putting your dog on a “nothing in life is free” protocol

👎🏻 Not allowing your dog to sniff and use their nose

👎🏻 Take advice from every vet, groomer, breeder, and neighbor who have no formal training or study in behavior

👎🏻 Take advice blindly from the internet

Things that will improve your dog’s behavior:

🐕 First and foremost, learning how to speak their language and becoming fluent in dog body language

🐩 Committing to positive reinforcement training to proactively teach your dog the skills they need

🐕‍🦺 Eliminating corrections from your training

🐶 Noticing the things that trigger your dogs misbehaviors, then training a new response or managing your dog around them

🐕 Setting up the environment to benefit your dog

🐩 Allowing your dog to sniff and explore the world with their nose

🐕‍🦺 Daily enrichment activities and allowing your dog to be a dog

🐶 Being generous with affection and attention when your dog wants it

🐕 Listening to precursors to aggressive behavior such as growling, stiffening, and avoidance so that your dog doesn’t feel the need to escalate to biting

🐩 Hiring a qualified professional before you even bring your dog home so you know what to do from the start

These lists are obviously not complete, but if you’ve ever been told to do something in that first list, ignore that advice and find someone more qualified to help you out! In the meantime, aim to meet the goals in the second list to help your dog become the best dog they can be!

12/28/2023

Cream of Asparakeet Soup.
Rest well Tom Smothers.

12/15/2023

tW doing what she did best... have fun with teeth!

12/11/2023

Favorite toy!

11/29/2023

11/23/2023

08/04/2023

07/31/2023

I love this kid!

05/28/2023

Happy Birthday Draper! I hope you enjoy your playtime with Scooby!

04/24/2023

Pretty funny!

12/08/2022

Busy season has begun. Happy and safe travels to all.

04/07/2021

Draper taking breaths

03/31/2021

https://www.happytailsfamilydogtraining.com/control-unleashed-conversation-fundamentals/

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03/29/2021

Control Unleashed - Conversation Fundamentals
4-week class begins April 18th 10am and is taught by me, Deb Manheim CCUI. Go to: https://www.happytailsfamilydogtraining.com/control-unleashed-conversation-fundamentals/

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