Need a smile? Check out our puppy camper Juniper working on a down with distractions.
And… Emerson’s misunderstanding of what her breed is. 😆
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Violet is working towards being a therapy dog! Today we're working on proofing our "under" and generalizing our chin rest. Violet LOVES affection, so a big part of our proofing today is making sure she can hold a position even if she's being pet. You can see her struggling when I'm petting her face and head, so I switched to reaching down with my other hand and petting her back and side, and was WAY more successful. We'll continue to work on proofing this with her! She has so much to offer in the therapy space 🥹
Working on obedience with Georgia! She's a dog that really enjoys to work, but this can make her a little frantic about food, and it makes it hard for her to think. So we're doing nice, calm, clear obedience, with clear, consistent food delivery. This REALLY helps the food become predictable, and predictability helps lower her arousal. We're just working some duration, loose leash, and recall here, and once we've helped her slow down, she does a really gorgeous job 🥰
I love this exercise! We're working on an auto leave it and engagement exercise with Ruby today. We keep a short leash so she can't get stuff in the floor, and then toss kibble across the plane of our walk. The key here is speed and commitment to our direction. She might stare at a piece of kibble as we go by, but my momentum keeps us moving, and there is a point where she decided "heck, I'm not gonna get that one." THAT is the moment I reward, and heavily! Over several reps, she learns that the floor food is inaccessible, and that all the good stuff is going to come from me. She picks this up really fast!
One of Annie’s favorite games…’on the mat’. 😊😊😊
Romeo and Bug have to learn calm OB when together. So we work on that!
Continuing working on Liberty and her competition OB
Today a finish with minimal help!!! YES!!
A huge thank you to Violet for providing some working distraction for Mazy and her mat stay. When all the dogs clear out you can see…yes Mazy is still on her mat!!
Sometimes the best exercise is to do nothing. Mazy is easily overstimulated so today when she arrived she was overly excited so we spent our first session working on calm exercises like do nothing .
Nope.. no way am I going in there!
Sage let’s make learning fun! We are going to have a good time and heck you won’t even notice the obedience.
Daily board and train Pyro checking in. He wanted to show off his offering heeling and how much fun he is having learning.
We work markers, rewards and engagement. He’s doing fantastic.
Sage is working on eye contact with me today and you can see in the first clip that I set her up badly. She was really struggling to look away from the food in my far hand, and I didn't set myself up to be be able to make it much easier for her. Oops! So between the first and second clip, I took the food out of thr equation completely and just rewarded her for looking at me without the distraction. And then with a more thoughtful set up later, you get the second clip! The difference was almost immediately! We cleared up the confusion for her and she learned quickly that looking at me IS how she gets to the food!
Findley is overstimulated and struggle with impulse control. Helping him means that we do lots of calm exercises. Sometimes it’s just taking a long calm walk and work on loose leash. Nothing exciting. We are here to help Findley learn to be calm and think.
We can do this Findley!
Door manners with Bristol! (And also, accidentally with Annie, Snow, and Rosie!) My criteria for her here is not just that she doesn't go through an open gate, but that shes paying attention to me instead! Bristol does excellent with consistency and clarity, and she does everything at 100% 😂
Working on some engagement and loose leash with Frankie today. If you've been watching our posts lately, you know Frankie can have some confidence issues, and that can manifest as a hyper vigilance toward her environment, which leads to reactivity on walks. Good engagement on the leash can go a really long way in helping navigate some of these issues, so I'm just trying to help her stay tuned in with me, while also being consistent when she hits the end of the leash!
