many people are having their dogs jump up on things because someone told them to build confidence. Just because your dog jumps up on something doesn’t mean it’s automatically get to build confidence. It’s not what you do. Its also how your dog feels doing it..
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making a dog perform a behavior it’s uncomfortable doing to only achieve a result of being in a position it’s uncomfortable in. Hoping for the relief is not something that builds confidence.
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if you were interested in understanding more about building confidence in pet dogs, feel free to contact me.
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on a sidenote, our confident Dog demonstrating what it should look like is Halo who has been raised and trained by @dogsensetrainingandbehaviour
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If you were going put your dog through a stressful situation to build confidence, then it’s important to know what Dogs to do it with and the risk you may be taking if you do it with the wrong dog.
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If you have a fearful dog, it’s important to understand that your dog is living in a life of stress and adding to it may be doing more damage than good.
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It doesn’t mean we will not be putting that dog through stressful situations to build. But you really have to know what you’re doing in. My advice is to seek out a professional rather than mimicking something you see on social media.
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If you are Dog Trainer and you want to learn more please send me a DM, or an email and I’ll be happy to work with you
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The most important thing about building a dog’s confidence through stress is teaching the dog that they have complete control during the stressful situation. The next step is teaching them that they can actually control what stresses them out. But unfortunately, that’s a little more nuanced..
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If you force your dog into a stressful situation, eventually your dog may realize this is not as scary as I thought. But do you want to take that chance? The best case scenario is that your dog realizes it wasn’t scary and it’s completely fine. But that does not build confidence beyond that specific scenario.
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Giving a dog to freedom to deal with stress on its own and overcome it on its own, will transfer to every part of your dog’s life and build resilience as well .
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Dipper is still on it, his journey to building confidence. And we will get dipper to its full potential.. but we will make sure dipper has control every step of the way
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I have been sent at least 15 posts in the past week of trainers(some of them, friends and mutuals) actually forcing a dog into stressful situations, convincing the general public that this builds confidence.
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This is a very dangerous line to walk because if for some reason you magically help one dog, you will likely hurt many more.
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Studies have shown that if you carefully increase stress that the dog can handle you will see increase confidence. However, if you have to force the dog into the stressful situation then you’re stepping over $100 bill to pick up a quarter.
The stress goes into conjunction with the dog having the ability to cope, make decisions, and feel in control.
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I look forward to the conversation conversations. Keep them respectful.
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Manding is when a dog performs a behavior to request something specific that they want from the owner.
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Does your dog have specific ways to communicate with you when it wants something?
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Manding it’s not always done out of frustration, but it can be.
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Here’s a unique way that I stopped counter surfing with Dogs by changing the way they feel about jumping on counters.
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Disclaimer this does not work for every dog, but it has worked for every dog that I’ve ever worked with.
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1) Decrease the value of the counter
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2) Teach the dog to jump up on the counter.
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 3) teach the dog to step on the counter for a obnoxious amount of time
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4) Stop rewarding the behavior that you just taught but keep asking for it.
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 5) Add value to the counter and reward the dogs good decisions… then do the same but create distance
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Unless you’re dealing with idiopathic aggression/rage syndrome or another neurological struggle the dog is having. It will never happen out of nowhere.
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Dogs communicate through body language. We just have a difficult time understanding what they’re saying…. And if you listen close, you will hear @barkville_nyc yelling in the background walk away😂..
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The benefits of sleep in humans and dogs is debatable. but the big question is how do we promote good sleep with our dogs?
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if you want to promote good sleep, then the first thing you need to do is realize what’s making it worse.
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What are the three things that dramatically affect your dogs ability to get good quality sleep?
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for more of this information check out my course on @consider_the_dog
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sleep is one of the most underrated discussions on social media. I wouldn’t be surprised if after this post people start talking about it much more.... But we can save that convo for another day.
There are so many things that can negatively impact your dog sleep.
Which will negatively impact your dogs mood over.
If you’re looking to change your dogs behavior and you find yourself in a hole, digging!
If your dog doesn’t feel good dog, isn’t gonna learn what you want to learn .
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to learn more check out the “negative impacts to counterconditioning” on my anger management course on @consider_the_dog
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this is something that’s not talked about enough when it comes to helping dogs that suffer from fear, reactivity, and aggression.
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None of these things are going to take you all the way to your goals but each thing will have a major impact than you know!
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I will do a post on each one over next week so if you have any questions, please do not hesitate
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just a fun fact about canine behavior to help you understand a little more about your dog.
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If you have a routine with your dog, not only will your dog be able to understand what time it is but your dog will remind you as well
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