Prana Canine

01/22/2025

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01/21/2025

We are in Colfax of Fridays! Message me if interested.... Limited space.

01/21/2025

🙄. The dog could not hav e been any more clear. Know thy dog.

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01/21/2025

Yes! Quit teaching your dog to find value everywhere but you! You want social neutrality. It's not the same thing. THIS.

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01/21/2025

Amen.

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01/19/2025

Random photo dump from this week. 🐾❤️🐾

01/17/2025

Friday funny (and awesomeness... ❤️Working dogs)

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01/16/2025

Bruno. ❤️ Up and coming member of our service dog program.

01/15/2025

Hey! This company is local to me and I discovered them at my local feed store. They make some very nice leashes for a reasonable price and I wholeheartedly recommend them. Give them a look! If you are local they have things for sale at Spence Hardware.
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01/15/2025

01/14/2025

This applies across the board.

Sound familiar?

Hallmarks of Pseudoscience:
• Starts with a conclusion, then works backwards to confirm
• Hostile to criticism
• Uses vague jargon
• Grandiose claims that go beyond the evidence
• Cherry picks only favourable evidence
• Uses flawed methods that can’t be replicated
• Dogmatic & unyielding

SCIENCE:
• Embraces criticism
• Uses precise terminology with clear definitions (not emotive language like ‘fear & ‘pain’)
• Considers all evidence
• Uses rigorous & repeatable methods
• Engages with peers & community
• Changes with new evidence

01/14/2025

This! There is no off leash area for your dog in public if you can't control and recall your dog. Period. 🐾

🐕 Leashing your dog and asking before letting them approach others helps keep everyone safe and comfortable. Even if your dog is friendly and has great recall - Not every dog wants to make new friends, and that’s OK! Good dog etiquette makes for happy tails all around!

01/14/2025

Blitz and Piper... Part of our personal pack. 🐾❤️🐾

01/14/2025

These two are going home today! They had decided at some point that they were not going to coexist and murder each other. We have gotten them much better.... Can't say they are besties but they are coexisting. Baby steps. Many issues are fixable, you just have to do the work and be consistent.

01/14/2025

THIS is exactly why dog parks and doggie day cares set your dog up for "reactivity." Almost no one makes their dog settle and walk calmly and collected into say care or the dog park, therefore you teach you dog that excited, out of controlled energy and behavior gets rewarded with the dog park, etc (provided those things are actually rewarding to your dog). Sooooo now you see another dog out on a walk, at the pet store etc and you have already
A. Taught you dog to find value /seek reward from outside dogs and strangers and not you
B. Your dog has learned that being a wound up, out of control spazz gets rewarded
Soxehat you get us a dog that barks, whines, pulls and does everything possible to get to strangers, other dogs etc.

You have now created your own MONSTER.

Train don't complain and if you need help setting up your dog for best success or fixing problem behaviors consult a professional
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For all those owners who allow their dogs to meet people and other dogs when they’re out and about and don’t know why their dogs go bananas when they see a person or dog, I hope this helps.

Dogs are amazing pattern readers, and easily become conditioned that something occurring predicts another thing occurring if it happens often enough. It’s why picking up your car keys, or walking towards the cupboard where their food is, or picking up their leash, or packing your suitcase, or answering the door after the doorbell goes off — causes an intense reaction.

It could be excitement, it could be anxiety, it could be sadness, it could be anything depending on what the “signal” predicts, and how your dog feels about it.

Same goes for your dog who is allowed to meet random people and dogs — and who takes great pleasure in it. If this sequence occurs often enough, it will begin to condition your dog to view people as a visual signal that predicts a party/arousal/intense emotional escalation.

You end up turning people and dogs into “doorbells”.

This is why you’ll hear almost all experienced trainers not engaging in this activity. (Of course there’s other considerations like creating negative outcomes from these interactions, but that’s a post for another day.) Most trainers, and astute owners are keenly aware that if this meet and greet activity is practiced enough, you’re going to have a dog who is struggling to hold it together when they see people and dogs — because you’ve conditioned your dog that the appearance of people or dogs predicts craziness.

Of course there are exceptions. (There are always exceptions.) There are chilled out, lowkey dogs who enjoy these interactions but who don’t lose it. And there are owners who only do this on rare occasions — and so the reactions are far less intense. But if you do this on the regular, and you have a dog who loses its sh*t when it occurs, you’re almost certainly setting you and your dog up for a lifetime of overly-aroused, reactive nuttiness when people and dogs come into the picture.

And if you don’t enjoy the behavior this creates in your dog, then I’d highly advise you change your approach, or at the very least, minimize it greatly. A doorbell that only predicts someone at the door 5-10% of the time is a far less insanity-inducing doorbell, so perhaps you can adjust your dog’s predictive powers by making things far less predictable. :)