AKC Novice Tricks class started last week! Here we are practicing our balance beam!
Brittni Hyzer CPDT-KA, FFCP, FDM
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Sweet girl Tilly! Working on our engage/disengage skills out in public today, plus introduced the basics for a Place cue this session! Awesome work, Tilly!
Brittni Hyzer CPDT-KA, FFCP, FDM
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Dogs NEED to chew!! Chewing is a form of doggie meditation, it lowers blood pressure and heart rate and releases happy, feel-good hormones in the brain! Dogs chew to decompress and self soothe from daily stressors, plus chewing helps keep their teeth clean!
Whimsy is chewing a homemade dried beef trachea, her FAVORITE chewy! My big boy Godot doesn't like these! He prefers to chew stuffy toys. Some dogs prefer to chew up sticks, or rubber/nylon toys. We all have personal preferences!
What does your dog like to chew??
Brittni Hyzer CPDT-KA, FFCP, FDM
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Oh sweet Otto! How can I resist this face!
Let's see those squishy cute puppies!!!
Brittni Hyzer CPDT-KA, FFCP, FDM
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Circle walking introduction with Derby! Tension on leash = circle to reset! We only walk forward on slack! This boy is an emotional teenager and working on leash manners and reactivity to strangers and dogs. We are laying some groundwork in easier situations so we can bring those skills into more challenging moments. Go Team Derby!
Brittni Hyzer CPDT-KA, FFCP, FDM
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Godot started to slow down as we went to pass this yard with an electric fence where the dog barks continuously at the perimeter. You can see he is staring, stiff and still, towards the dog, he looks at me to check in a few times, and displays some displacement, stopping to sniff and pee and look away. He isn't interested in the treat I offer him for rewarding eye contact which is a big red flag. Typically, he just keeps walking past this house, taking treats from me the whole way despite the barking. This time, he was pretty clearly saying he didn't really want to. So what do I do? Offer to him we can go back the other direction! It's in no way critical that we go past this other dog! It's a dead end, we'd have to turn around anyway! Look at how much more decisive is body language is when we head back the other way. He's moving fluidly, no more stiffness and uncertainty, no more displacement. We will try this route another day and see if he feels better about walking past. For him, I am VERY proud of opportunities he chooses to avoid conflict, as he's naturally more defensive to perceived challenges as a guarding breed dog. Moving away from a threat is a skill we've been working on in other contexts and I'm happy to see it's generalizing!
Brittni Hyzer CPDT-KA, FFCP, FDM
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A simple greeting exercise where we set our dog up for success by rewarding stationary behavior until releasing them to nose target a visitor's hand to get a cookie. Raya does great!! So does Raya's mom being QUICK with the cookie! We build up from here to fewer rewards, and the dog learns the pattern over time and is faster and faster to turn away from the visitor on their own to get the cookie from their human. This is only the second session we've worked on this, and we are seeing so much success!
Brittni Hyzer CPDT-KA, FFCP, FDM
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Sammy!
This handsome boy is working hard on impulse control and emotional regulation around visitors. He's doing amazing! Go Team Sammy!
Brittni Hyzer CPDT-KA, FFCP, FDM
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Building food drive around distractions!
We use the Get It game when Whimsy has little interest in food in public. This gives her an outlet for chasing, which for her, is higher value than treats and makes the food itself more of a reward. See the transition in this video from unwilling to eat from hand to eating from hand in just a few seconds using this game!
Brittni Hyzer CPDT-KA, FFCP, FDM
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Predation Substitution Training! Still working on our response to bunnies on leash! This bunny was harder, closer to the sidewalk and more obvious as it was standing upright. Whimsy did great!
Brittni Hyzer CPDT-KA, FFCP, FDM
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Jobin, doing some problem solving to get his fuzzy ear chew out of the toy! 🥰💛 Keep your pup busy with appropriate activities and they won't get "creative!" 🤭
Brittni Hyzer CPDT-KA, FFCP, FDM
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