The Canine Academy

⭐️🎥 This Week on the Highlight Reel… Road Safety is one of the most important things we teach for our students who live on or near busy highways. Duke here came to us with several needs, but chief among them was road safety. His humans wanted him to understand to never cross the road without them and to be able to stay in a controlled sit at the edge of the yard when they went to get the trash bins or mail. What you see here was accomplished in one session! Way to go, Duke! 👏

🎥🐶👏 Highlights of the Week! If you have a reactive or anxious dog, you know all too well how stressful going for a walk can be. It can feel nerve wracking, embarrassing, and often times hopeless. And the most common misconception is that the solution is some hyper complex intimidating process that will take months to learn and implement. But the truth is actually the exact opposite. With the right trainer and behavioral philosophy, progress like this can be made in mere minutes. It’s not about teaching your dog, it’s about teaching YOU some simple minimalistic techniques and letting that new behavior of YOURS flow through the dog. Teaching proper leash behavior is one of our Top 3 favorite things to teach. Getting to see that stress and anxiety fall off our client’s shoulders that first time they walk healthily and successfully is one of the greatest feelings we can experience as trainers and truly the why we do what we do. Way to go, Biscuit and Lauren! We’ve still got work to do but this progress already is phenomenal. Keep up the great work and we’ll see you at next session!

🎥🐶👏 Highlights of the Week! Healthy leash behavior can be one of the most intimidating skills to learn in training. But the key is really quite simple! We’re not so much changing your DOG’S behavior so much as we’re changing YOURS. Then your dog responds to YOUR new healthier behavior with their OWN new healthier behavior. Wanna learn? Message us! We can’t wait to teach you! And thank you Mary Jo and Cinnamon! You guys are doing amazing! Keep up the great work! 👏

🎥🐶👏 Highlights of the Week! Check out Zuma and Patrick SLAYING the “Pace Match” Drill! So proud of you guys! Keep up the great work! Clients like you make our job SO much easier and such a joy! #dogsofnashville #nashvilledogtrainers #nashville

⚡️🐶 New Student Spotlight! Everyone, meet “Nala”! One of the most frequent questions we get is, “Where do you train my dog? Is it always in-home? Do we ever train elsewhere?” The answer is simple… We follow the dog. Wherever they exhibit behavior that needs improving , that’s exactly where we go to treat it. Do they present reactivity only toward joggers in a certain part of the park? We go straight there and find the joggers! Do they freak out when you approach the dog park? Then we go to the dog park! We also understand that your Week 1 training needs may not be your Week 3 needs, so we always remain open and adaptive to that in real time! Take little Nala here for example! She’s enrolled in our Fido Fundamentals course but halfway through, her family had to take an unexpected long road trip and in prior short car rides, Nala didn’t do so well. So they asked if we could work with her on that to make the upcoming road trip a better, less scary experience for her. So we tweaked her training curriculum on the fly, hopped in the car, and went for some training rides! Within minutes, she was calm and at peace with the car’s movements and sounds and even began to fall asleep. Moral of the story… follow the dog! #dogtraining #dogsofinstagram #nashville

🥹 There is NO better feeling in the world as a dog trainer than to receive texts and update videos like this one months or even years after your student has graduated. Here at tCA🐾 we put an incredible amount of emphasis and intention not just on rapid learning and behavior improvement in the moment, but more importantly, on longterm retention and success as well. We always say on graduation day, “We love ya, but in the best way, we hope we never see you again!” 🤣. Rock on, Chexy! You and your amazing humans, Mary & AJ, will forever be one of our all-time favorite fams! Keep up the good work and give Chex a treat from us (earned of course 😉)! If you’d like to get on Chex’s level with YOUR dog, click/tap the button below to book with us TODAY!

📈👏 Progress Spotlight on Nash! This beautiful boy came to us with severe reactivity towards other dogs. After we fully fixed that issue for him and his amazing hooman, Gillian, he came back to us for some help in and around their home! Here we are working on delivery-person reactivity in a real-world scenario with Amazon and Nash KILLED IT!!! Is your dog super reactive to delivery-persons? Want them to get on Nash’s level? Book with us today and we’ll make your dog a superstar just like Nash! #dogtraining #dogsofinstagram #dogtrainer #nashville

⚡️👏 Progress Spotlight on Hank!!! Reactivity to other dogs is SO improved! Within one session, we got him walking callly and confidently in stride with my assistant dog, Nala! Way to go, Hank! You’re killing it!!! (you too, @jordynjaeckel!) ☺️🤍

📈👏 Progress Spotlight on Gravy! This big boy stole our hearts from Day 1, and only halfway through his training program, he’s making incredible progress like this! “Place training” can be a godsend and infuse a healthy level of control, calm, and obedience into the home. And once it’s taught, all members of the family can implement it (check out our little future assistant trainer, Elle here, fully directing Gravy with confidence and ease)! Thanks, Blair for letting us share Gravy and his progress with the world! #nashville #dogsofinstagram #dogtraining #dogtrainer

🚨 Update on Sarge! Sarge continues to progress and improve with every passing day! We’ve had ZERO regressive incidents since training began and his humans are already reporting a totally changed atmosphere inside their home and greatly improved energy between Sarge and everyone he comes into contact with. This is by no means a crystal ball guaranteeing long term success and our work is of course not yet finished, but one week away from the end of his two-week time clock on imprrative behavioral improvement (or else, euthanasia) and we absolutely love where we are and how far we’ve already come. One week to go, and obviously anything can happen, but as of now, things are exactly where they need to be to save this sweet pup’s life. Update again in one week! For now, check out his progress in learning patience, looking to his humans (and trainer) for direction, obedience, proper pack hierarchy calibration, and enrichment through drills like the ones featured in this post! If you or someone you know has a dog who is also struggling with severe aggression/reactivity and needs some help fixing it and living healthier and happier, please reach out to us today… w: www.thecanineacad.com e: [email protected] p: (843)-698-0392 🤍

Reactivity/Desensitization Training!

Meet the gorgeous Ms. Maisey! She came to us needing help with severe reactivity towards other dogs while on leash (and even dogs on TV)! In one session we were able to fix her TV reactivity through positive reinforcement, redirection application, and encouraging better decision-making with praise and reward! Next up, we tackle her outdoor reactivity on-leash and we can’t wait to help her knock that out of the park too! #dog #dogtraining #nashville

Dog Reactivity, Patience, & Focus w/Jimmy!

One more ‘big brag’ on ‘little Jimmy’… This superstar student, even with his special needs and even at his very young age, was able to retain healthy leash behavior and sit calmly and observe other pups and people walking down his street back and forth within just a few sessions of focused dedicated training! Can your pup do this? Want them to be able to? Let us show you how! Contact us today to get your pup on Jimmy’s level! 🐕 🚶‍♀️ Book with Us Now: https://www.thecanineacad.com/training-packages

Road Safety/Vehicle Desensitization w/Jimmy!

With so many of our clients living in close proximity to busy streets or highways, one of the most important skills we teach is road safety, vehicle reactivity and desensitization. This is Jimmy, one of our all-time favorite students EVER. Jimmy was a special-needs pup who had issues with balance and advanced cognition and fine motor skills, so teaching him these skills was extra important. Through focused training exercises, this little guy had them down pat in no time! If Jimmy could do it, so can your dog! We miss you Jimmy! Contact Us Today: https://www.thecanineacad.com/contact

The only thing that could possibly make the gift of a dog better is dedicated training as the stocking stuffer! This holiday season, give the gift of training with our Fido Fundamentals Training Package! 🎄🐶 🎁 Cross it off your list today!: https://www.thecanineacad.com/contact

📖 Our November training docket is officially open! Slots fill up FAST this time of year so click the link below now to get you and your pup exactly where you want to be before the holidays! We can’t wait to meet you! 🍂🐕 🧡 https://www.thecanineacad.com/contact

Inside Look: The Ring Drill ⭕️

🙋‍♀️ Here’s a question… Can you get your dog to sit, stay, walk away from them, move fully around them 360 degrees, OUTDOORS with distractions, then recall them to heel position? We’ll answer this one for you… YES, you can! It just takes quality training! This is one of many drills we do called “The Ring Drill”, and it is one that almost all clients at our first session together say they really don’t believe their dog will ever be able to accomplish! But in years of working with countless pups, we have yet to encounter one dog who doesn’t learn it and master it during our first week together. The secret is in our training methodology and hyper focus on clear and concise communication to your pup, locked in then by positive reinforcement and bond-strengthening between the two of you! This superstar is Oakley and her amazing humans Megan and Kayla! They were kind enough to allow us to shoot this snippet at her graduation session last week so we could share with you an inside look into what it’s like being a Canine Academy student! Want to take Oakley’s lead and get your pup trained too? Click below to get started today! We can’t wait to work with you! 🤍🐾 https://www.thecanineacad.com/training-packages

Meet one of our current students, Oakley! We bumped into one another while training a different student at the dog park one day, and her amazing humans, Kayla and Megan, decided to give us a try! We're so happy they did! Oakley is truly the sweetest pup that ever pupped and an AMAZING student to teach. Halfway through our program and she is KILLING IT! Keep up the good work, Oakley! Kayla and Megan, thanks for the progress video and give that girl a big earned treat from us! Can't wait to see you next class! Want to follow Oakley's lead and start training with us too? Tap below to get started! We can't wait to connect with you! https://www.thecanineacad.com/training-packages

In case you can't tell, we REALLY love getting update videos from our graduates! If The Canine Academy ever had an All-Star team, Rosy would be team captain! Meet the sweetest fluff ball to ever fluff, and one of our all-time fave students EVER! If you think your dog is too excitable for training or that their tendency to get overwhelmed or lose focus easily will make training impossible, just look to Rosy for proof that you can do it! It just takes the right training path and amazing humans (like Rosy's Clare!) to make it happen! We miss you, Rosy! Clare, give that superstar a big earned treat from us please!

There's truly nothing we love more than getting texts like these! Meet Jenna and Tennley! Tennley is the sweetest pup, but she just needed a lot of help learning healthy leash behavior, how to stop lunging and pulling, and how to develop the skills to replace her overwhelming reactivity with calm focus on Jenna listening to her direction, and matching her pace instead! Jenna, thank you SO MUCH for sharing this with us! Looking GOOD! Keep up the good work and give Ms. Tenn' a treat from us (earned of course 😉)!