Paradigm K9 LLC

04/19/2025

04/16/2025

Teaching a dog how to walk past another dog without reacting to them:

I'm hoping to get another video of this exercise with Bella tomorrow to better explain what we're doing here. There's a method to my madness.

The reality is that the average pet dog that hasn't been trained by the time they reach maturity is going to struggle immensely with this exercise. It seems like it should be a simple task: walk past another dog and ignore them. But for most dogs it's far from easy to do this.

I look at it as a skill that needs to be taught. But before we can teach it there's a lot of prerequisites that need to be in place:

1. Learn how to focus and pay attention.
2. Learn how to work for the reward.
3. Learn how to understand and respond properly to a correction for the wrong behavior.
4. Use all of the above skills to learn how to navigate this particular exercise.

When you take the time to teach all of those prerequisites the actual action of walking past another dog actually becomes pretty easy. The problem most pet dog owners are struggling with is that don't have those tools in their toolbox to successfully navigate something like this.

04/16/2025

Teach them to focus first. Everything else gets easier from there.

04/15/2025

Check out my man Rocky! Complete change from yesterday.

04/15/2025

When you candidly catch your employee genuinely enjoying her job....

04/14/2025

If you are going to use an e collar for training, or if you are going to hire a trainer that's going to use an e collar make sure you educate yourself on its proper usage.

We see stuff like this a ton, especially from dogs that have gone through a short board and train like a 10 day or 2 week type of program.

It takes time to properly introduce this tool to dogs and if they don't have a clear understanding of it you are going to see a lot of unwanted side effects.

We'll work Rocky through this and he'll be fine, but it's really unfortunate to have to spend so much time fixing his response to a training tool. He's here for some more serious behavior issues that we need to get to but we can't until this is addressed first.

Stay tuned though, I'll post an update on his progress and you'll see an entirely different dog once we get enough good training in place.

04/13/2025

Fundamentals matter. If you can't do it when it's easy you'll never be able to do it when it's hard.

04/12/2025

Fixing reactivity can be difficult or it can be easy. Lay the proper groundwork before you attempt to address it and you'll be blown away by how not big of a deal it actually is.

04/07/2025

What's the WORST dog breed?

04/05/2025

Watch until the end to see how I work Nina through her (obsessive) "food-centric" focus and teach her how to use her head to problem solve.

PS - I may have gotten a headache from this session 😂

04/05/2025

What's the best dog breed and why?

04/05/2025

If you are just getting started in the training process with your dog, do not skip this step!

04/04/2025

Here's an example of how we use structured play to both exercise the dog and maintain or improve their obedience training. Try it, it's a game changer.

03/17/2025

Happy St. Patrick's day!

03/15/2025

Here's a good example of how you can use obedience training to gradually desensitize a dog to it's reactivity triggers. Exposure is everything, but what's more important is the dog's state of mind while being exposed to the trigger.

03/14/2025

This was taken later in the day on the same day Hazel had her blow up towards the lady with a stroller. Dogs are by far her biggest trigger, watch how I'm now able to work her through it.

03/13/2025

Enjoy some more of Hazel. Making progress, the best is yet to come.

03/13/2025

Here's the first video I was able to get of Hazel's training. It wasn't ideal, my phone wasn't cooperating all day but this serves as a good baseline for what you'll see Hazel be able to do in the future. Stay tuned!