Gold Ridge Cognitive Canines

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🐾 Dog Training & Owner Education: in-home coaching, adventure-day training, evals, & group classes. 🐾

✨ Enhance the human/canine relationship through play, clear communication, and biological fulfillment to better the quality of life for both beings. ✨ Educational Accomplishments:
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CGC Evaluator

AS in Assistance Dog Education (2015)
BS in Cynology — Can

ine Studies (2017)
AS in Deaf Studies (2018)

Certificate:
Dogs Helping Veterans (2015)
Dog Emotion and Cognition (2020)
Nepopo � Silver School (2021)
Nepopo � Gold School (2022)

01/16/2025
01/11/2025
Everyone loves Fern 💗 🐾 welcome back to our daycare schedule this new year! ✨
01/11/2025

Everyone loves Fern 💗 🐾 welcome back to our daycare schedule this new year! ✨

01/10/2025

Why yes my dog would LOVE to say hi, but I’m still going to say “no thank you” and move on. Why?

1. Because I want my dog to learn that every time we see people it doesn’t mean it’s a party for him. I’d like him to continue his focus on us together as a team and not create conditioned excitement and expectation every time we are approached by someone.

2. Because I don’t know what saying hi means to you. Will you politely touch him? Will you allow him space to move away if he wants? Will you put your face too close to his? I don’t want him to have a negative experience so I’m going to avoid that by continuing our walk.

3. Because maybe I feel overwhelmed or stressed in public places and conversations with strangers may make me uncomfortable, so even though you’d like to talk and meet my dog, I’m protecting myself too.

4. Because we’re in a rush and have to get something done quickly.

5. Because I said no. Even social, sweet, friendly dogs and their handlers have every right to say “no” to a request to meet and be touched by people. This shouldn’t just apply to reactive, worried or bubble space dogs. Dogs are not public property, and saying “no thank you” to touching my dog shouldn’t be regarded as rude or unkind, any more than if a stranger asked to hold my baby.

Please normalize hearing “no” OR even better, normalize ignoring more dogs in public. Let them carry on with their handler and admire them from a far. It would do a world of good for dogs and humans everywhere, trust me.

- Helen St. Pierre

Our secure dog field is available to rent for those looking for a safe place to run your dog 🐾 you can schedule play dat...
01/06/2025

Our secure dog field is available to rent for those looking for a safe place to run your dog 🐾 you can schedule play dates, meet and greets, and more here!

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grccanines.com

UPDATE: He has been adopted!! ...... Oakley is available for adoption! ✨ Anyone looking for a new companion? He may even...
01/02/2025

UPDATE: He has been adopted!!
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Oakley is available for adoption! ✨

Anyone looking for a new companion? He may even be a great sport buddy!

A client of mine dropped their puppy off at the Placer SPCA before allowing me to help rehome him...I just found him on their website and wanted to spread the word that whoever adopts him is welcome to come to my secure dog field for a free training session. I would love to be able to give them more information about him and his needs since I briefly worked with him.

Please share! 🐾

https://placerspca.org/adopt-home/dogs/

12/17/2024

Address

Gold Hill Rd
Newcastle, CA
95658

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm

Telephone

+15304146553

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Testing Raven's cognition with one of the "Inference" tests I learned at my last seminar. We will be posting the rest of this test in our private group page soon, once I can get a few more things organized. 😁 - I also tested Presto, but did not film the first part 🤦‍♀️ he did just about how I expected, but did surprise me a little....we will discuss more in our private group in a couple of days or so...

✨ Treibball Foundation Skills Class ✨ 🗒️ Sign up now to reserve your spot! Classes will be held in the GRCC sport field at 5pm on June: 8, 15, 22, 29 🐾 Treibball is a competitive dog sport which originated in Germany and entered sanctioned competition in 2008. Treibball means "Ball Driving" and is a sport of distance skill and teamwork: the dog must gather and drive large exercise balls quickly into a soccer goal. Your dog will get great exercise and play an engaging game that builds handler focus and communication skills. 🐾 Check out our website for updates class info: goldridgecognitivecanines.com Email us to sign up and ask questions: [email protected]

Maya gets to hang out with us this weekend 💗

Presto working on his directions: Away and Come By on verbal with some support from a Stop and Touch

Daisy & Emma enjoying the green field during such a nice time of year. 🍀 We will miss the grass when it is summer 😅

Well-exercised dogs are well-behaved dogs, and dog sport training includes the best of both worlds to physically and mentally fulfill them at the same time (Westgarth et al., 2019). Canine Soapbox is a new sport that involves an obstacle course designed to help dogs and their human partners learn essential communication skills. Additionally, the physical and mental challenges of the course will help keep dogs active, engaged, and mentally stimulated. This novel sport underscores the significance of vocal cues and manual gestures, creating an authentic assessment of the bond shared between a dog and its handler. In Canine Soapbox, obstacle courses are designed to simulate real-life scenarios where dogs need to follow their owner's direction. Crafted in a challenging way that demands both physical and mental prowess from dogs, these obstacles serve as an exceptional tool for training and exercise. Each team will be graded on accuracy, speed, agility, and attitude. Canine Soapbox will also be taught with a new cognitive dog training system called P.R.E.S.T.O, which represents: Purpose, Relationship, Enrichment, Synergy, Timing, and Objective. Educating and motivating all types of dog owners through a fun new sport should make a positive impact in many lives (Farrell et al., 2015). Canine Soapbox will provide a fun and challenging activity for both the dog and human. It can help improve the bond between the two and provide an opportunity for the handler to build trust and confidence with their dog. It also provides a way for dogs to burn off excess energy and get the exercise they need to maintain good health. Email [email protected] to reserve your spot and for additional information! goldridgecognitivecanines.com

Presto and Ginger had very different reactions to the new sheep and goats 🤣

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An authentic, personable approach to Assistance Dog training! Currently serving Northern California in the Sierra Nevada Foothills, Carrie S Faber offers a Puppy Head Start Board and Train program (Gold Ridge Cognitive Canines) for pets and a complete service dog training program (Better Together). She is dedicated to helping individuals with specific limitations that would greatly benefit from the professional and comforting assistance of a properly trained Assistance Dog. Mitigating symptoms and gaining independence are just two of the many benefits an Assistance Dog can provide with the perfect pairing of handler and dog: children with autism/ADHD/anxiety, Veterans with physical and/or psychiatric limitations (such as PTSD), those Hard of Hearing or Deaf, individuals with mobility disabilities, etc. An Assistance Dog could be a wonderful "unobtrusive helpmate" to improve health and quality of living! If you are interested in Pet, Therapy, or Service Dog training, please check out the website for more detail: BetterTogetherDog.com