We use a park it and feed the chickens for desensitization and exposure.
Sunday Jr achievers playing hot potato with their dogs in a side position.
Our Junior Achievers class practicing group stays with Distance, Distraction and Duration at the park on Wednesday night.
Our group puppy class social time!
We work on proper puppy socialization.
Long duration stays outside around distractions in Jr achievers class.
Our Wednesday night Junior Achievers class practiced their place command outside around distractions.
Our Jr Achievers class practicing walking past and next to other dogs.
Our 2 Boot camp pups, Olivia and Doug, having a nice play session after a long day of learning and working hard.
This song was the inspiration for our School day activities last week, and I was so excited when it actually came on the radio on the last dog I worked. So we had to dance.
Pass on by's in our Jr Achievers class.
Our Jr Achievers class practicing their walk on by's in class.
Our Wednesday night Jr Achievers class practicing their stays with the 3 D's- distance, distraction, and duration.
We were outside in a neighboring business parking lot on a busy street.
They did very well.
When life gives you lemons, you need to make Lemonade right? Well since we have construction happening in our parking lot we decided to use it as a training opportunity, so here is our Wednesday night Jr. Achievers class practicing getting their dogs attention near the big scary equipment.
Take any chance you can to desensitize and expose your dogs in a safe, positive way to life situations.