Teaching a little puppy with clicker training and targeting to ring a bell. Easy Peezy. #dogtrainingnyc #puppiesoftheday #frenchiesofinstagram #nycfrenchies
One can get in the bucket and drink it, the other ones asks me to “Puhleeze to be removing the water for me?” #meetsiggy #ernestineJellyBean The #Frenchie
Every day I practice a little bit of grooming with Siggy, my current board and train dog.
It’s just any quiet time that we’re together-I can give him a chew toy and while he’s working on that I get my tools out and I do some “mock” grooming, where the goal isn’t to get some thing “done” – it’s more about acclimating him to the process slowly and incrementally so that it’s not something unpleasant.
Siggy is a keeshound dog.
This is a short video of some free shaping. I did today with a little Chihuahua pup. This might appear deceptively simple like it’s a Fetch, but it isn’t really it’s a trained pick up and return to the mat with the toy. Free shaping is a type of training where you don’t use lures and prompts.
You mostly start with behaviors that the dog is offering to you and train them in increments to a finished behavior.
🩵 I’m a huge fan of it because I find it in interesting, and the more you do it the faster it goes for every successive thing you teach your pup. #freeshaping #clickertraining #puptraining #chihuahuasofinstagram #doinkdoesit
Some grooming acclimation instructions for You and your new pup to practice together! #doggrooming #puptraining #cavalierkingcharlesspaniel #cavaliersofinstagram #nycpuptraining #nycdogtrainer #puppylessons
Omg I have a foster dog!!!
She can be adopted! @pupstarzrescue. I think she’s delightful. #nycrescuedogs
People ask me all the time how to direct their dog’s Time and energy? Here’s how!
Here’s an example of how I keep dogs busy when I’m taking care of them and give them positive outlets for their energy.
I got an awesome secret santa present today! #dogtoys #secretsanta #tugtoysfordogs
DOG TRAINING TRICKS that make sense:
😝 Step-in harnesses can be the BANE of your existence if you haven’t trained your dog to stand still to get it on them. You could use a hack like this one and teach your dog to jump into the harness with their front paws on their own. I also typically prefer teaching a small dog to jump up on a stool or on the sofa, so that I don’t have to bend over to put the harness on them every time that’s really a lifesaver for your back!
✅ Personally, I prefer over the head under the belly clip, kind of harnesses-or the ones where you only have to lift one paw up, and it still goes over the head and clips on the side, or under the belly, but to each his own! #dogtraining #minischnauzersofinstagram #dogsafetytips
Another short clip of some Clicker Training Freeshaping. I LOVE the nature of DISCOVERY that’s built into Freeshaping Training. It’s very much like a conversation between You and The Dog. Whereas regular training using lures is more like a “work meeting”
#AMA ABOUT Freeshaping training.
#clickertraining #freeshaping #dogtraining #dogschool #chihuahuasofinstagram #chihuahuafanatics
Hello!👋
I’m a BIG BIG fan of using whatever you have around you (in your world) to help you make your interactive training with your dog as effortless and fun as possible.
In the art world they call this mode of working with what you HAVE, “availablism”.
🚨Literally anything you can find on your walk could be safely incorporated into teaching & engaging your dog MORE CONSISTENTLY.
⭐️ I particularly tend to get bored with the same old- same old every day, so I’m always looking for new and exciting things to do with my dog when I’m walking to break up the monotony, and it has the VERY INTENTIONAL consequence of giving my dog more reasons to wanna pay attention to me because “we do exciting stuff together.”⭐️
Things you can teach your dog to navigate/interact with on walks.
✅ Park Benches
✅ Low Retaining Walls
✅ Weaving around FIRE Hydrants
✅ Paws Up On Tree Trunks and Walls
✅ Hopping over “stuff”
#doggieparkour #urbanagilty #dogtrainingvideos #nycdogtraining #borderterrierswithattitude
It took me a while to figure out that it was gonna be much better to let Augie go in the bag on its side, than to have him hop in it from the top, which is how he normally gets in a bag! ✅ but this one due to how narrow it was required a different approach 🚨
SOOOO a lot of times if you’re struggling with a training dilemma, look at it 🔍🔎 in a sort of tactical way…. is there a way you can make it easier for the dog to LEARN it or EXECUTE it?
I don’t like to waste ANY TIME, do I’m always looking to HUMANELY HACK existing dog training notions.
#nycdogs #humanelyhack
#dogtrainingadvice #borderterriers
Training *and* Fun should be simultaneous-don’t listen to people who use antiquated buzzwords like “leadership” and “alpha wolf”. 🐺
That’s some old non-scientific MALARKY!
Giving your dog language to communicate with you and vice versa, is where it’s at.
I’ve been wanting to post some clips recently of one of my favorite ways to teach my dogs and something a lot of people have heard about but never seen in real time.
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FREE SHAPING is one of my favorite ways to teach dog because it relies on THEM to be interactive and lets their personality shine. I find it very calming to DO.
✅ It actually relaxes ME and I ENJOY my time with the Dog and The process of discovery that happens when we are communicating together!
If we imagine traditional training was considered like a board meeting, then this type of training would be more like lunch conversation with a friend-a little more organic in direction, but communication and processing anyway.
Should I post part two? This is just the first half. I jumped right in, more explanation in another video I’m sure.
#dogtrainingisfun #freeshapingdog #clickertraining
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again
👿ONE of the critical steps in reward-based training is that when you start to “substitute rewards” that you actually do substitute and actual reward, and not try to just switch to praise which is essentially less than minimum wage, and your dog is going to stop performing and then we get into that Song and dance I’ve heard so many times where someone says “”I trained my dog with treats, but they only do it now when we they see we have the treat”. This is essentially because you have “bounced checks” on your Dog in the training process and now they require to see your “bank account” when doing work on credit.
😵💫I think we can all relate to doing work in good faith and then not getting paid. :)
Very old movie of my first training, pet dog pie, who is a very spicy flavored Chihuahua! About 20 or so tricks and was in Dog fancy magazine two times! #chihuahuas