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Beneath the Bark Dog Training, LLC

ABC Certified Dog Trainer
The key to changing behavior is understanding behavior.

07/24/2023

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07/14/2023

New cards are in!! 🤩

08/26/2022

International Dog Day Training Sale!!

08/24/2022

Comment your top training questions to have them answered on the blog or in a reel! What do you want to know about your dog?

08/22/2022

Enrichment is more than just a Kong, although those are pretty great too. Enrichment should allow for the practice of natural behavior and introduce variety into your dog's life.

To more narrowly categorize enrichment, look to the sheet below, where each category represents a different skill practiced during each type of activity.

Let's use problem solving as an example of how enrichment can prevent inappropriate behavior.

Problem Solving enrichment is anything that makes a dog think critically. "If I do this, then this happens..." Things like bobber food dispenser toys, food puzzles, puzzle cubes, the jug and rope dispenser toy, and Kong gyros all allow a dog to exercise problem solving skills.

Having the opportunity to appropriately practice these skills and expend this kind of mental energy means that a dog won't go looking for their own ways to do so. This is how enrichment prevents unwanted behavior, by providing outlets for behaviors that otherwise will most likely get practiced in ways we don't like--like figuring out how the garbage can works or chewing our shoes.

To hear more about these other categories in detail, check out the blog at Beneaththebark.com or come to our free enrichment class on september 10th (more info on the page)

08/22/2022

FREE CLASS ALERT!!

Join me September 10 at 2 pm with your dog for a free enrichment class! I'll be discussing the different areas of enrichment and how incorporating diverse enrichment selection into your dog's daily life can improve behavior.

Will have enrichment cheat sheet handouts and show examples of popular enrichment items.

08/20/2022

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THIS is training a reactive dog under threshold. For a bit of history on this video, ozzy used to be extremely reactive to the neighboring dog,their yard, and the fence. This has to do with dog reactivity and a little barrier frustration. The video you see is where we are in our training for this, but if youd seen him six months ago, the video would have looked drastically different. He would have been throwing himself at the fence with his hackles raised and eyes wild, foaming at the mouth while barking frantically and causing quite a scene. Through slow, strategic training, we've been able to get to this point. Training for reactivity should not look like a fireworks display of emotion and chaotic behavior like on the television shows. In reality, desensitization should be an extremely slow, boring process, because the dog should ALWAYS be under threshold. Think of threshold as a dogs emotional bucket. When the bucket is full, that dog has reached threshold. When the bucket over flows, that dog is over threshold, and that is when we start to see reactive behavior like frantic barking, lunging, snapping, etc, depending on the individual dogs emotional state. We don't want to flood our dogs (overflow their bucket) with the triggering stimulus and expect them to "face their fears". When a dog is over threshold, we see a spike in cortisol, the stress hormone, and the activation of their amygdala, the part of the brain that controls arousal like fight or flight and big emotions. Since the call to action of the amygdala causes the prefrontal cortex to become dysregulated and communication to that area of the brain is disrupted, a dog being flooded with triggers is NOT LEARNING ANYTHING except to be more scared. Dogs don't face their fears, and they dont "see that nothings gonna happen". Dogs are NOT HUMANS. Through using scientifically derived evidence, we know that training methods like desensitization and counter conditioning while under threshold are the most succes