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Mother of Dachshund Training LLC

I am a positive reinforcement dog trainer. Offering in person and virtual sessions.

07/17/2024

A couple of days later than I planned but here is our upcoming scentwork schedule! Hope to see you there!
As mentioned these will be our last scentwork classes offered until late December, so get training now!

07/13/2024

Stay tuned I am going to be dropping my next two upcoming scentwork classes at the end of the day! These will be the last two offered before December due to maternity leave.

06/30/2024

Being pregnant I’m not taking on new big dog clients for basic training right now through January. However, Sasha is my Newfie therapy client. Yesterday, we took her training out on the road to Home Depot. Needless to say after all the on leash greetings with humans(and one dog that ran up to her-who she chose to ignore) and distractions, she was tired. I’ve said it before but I am excited for her to visit the nursing homes and show other people what a great personality she has.

06/02/2024

This is Sasha the Newfoundland! We are working on our skills to be a therapy dog, and to be clear I’d be comfortable with her walking into a nursing home today and gracing everyone with her presence.

05/29/2024

What I love most about this is how clearly I can see her work the whole space. Even more, we see a working breed work the perimeter, as they tend to be big on, in order to follow the odor to the center of the room.

05/06/2024

Not scentwork per say but a good way to see one way scent is introduced in the working dog world

04/29/2024

If you and your dog have already begun scentwork with us or elsewhere but need either an intro or refresher for odor, this is the class for you.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0849AAAB2BA1FBC61-49378667-introduction

04/29/2024

New Intro group scentwork class beginning in May! Sign up while spots last.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0849AAAB2BA1FBC61-48734066-intro

04/20/2024

Puppy student, Phoebe, wants to remind you as we enter warm weather to keep your brachycephalic friends cool, watered, and keep outings brief.

04/18/2024

Sit tight, we are getting ready to drop our summer class schedule for scentwork for Spring/Summer!

Update: We will be putting a pause on individual training sessions *for new clients* starting May until next year

04/05/2024

All of our skills in K9 Nose Work should be built on a solid foundation!

We don't ever try to rush past laying a solid foundation for dogs or their handlers and so we start every team with "primary searches" where both our dogs and their humans can learn the fundamental skills they need before we move onto introducing target odor.

We find this approach is invaluable for preventing a lot of "growing pains" that can come up for teams that rush to "ALERT!" without first laying down the supporting structure to set them up for success.

Image Description:
Graphic titled "Nosework Skills Pyramid"

There is a picture of a pyramid graph with 4 layers.

The bottom layer is titled "1 Fundamentals" and includes 4 icons labelled "Independent Hunting", "Value for Source", "Enthusiasm & Confidence", and "Handler Observation Skills". A short description reads: "Enthusiasm & confidence can look different in different dogs; enthusiasm =/= [does not equal] speed"

The second layer from the bottom is titled "2 Problem Solving" and includes the words "Threshold", "Tight", "Pooling", "Converging", "Deep", "Elevation", "Corners", and "Channeling". A short description reads: "Dogs should be able to solve odor puzzles independently; handlers support their dog but do not take the lead".

A third layer up from the bottom is titled "3 Environments" and includes 3 icons. The first is a snow flake and sun labelled "Weather/Temperature", next an icon of wind labelled "Air Flow", and last a squirrel and pizza icon labelled "Distractions". A short description reads: "Both dog and handler should feel comfortable searching a variety of environments, inside and outside regardless of weather; dogs should learn to work through both naturally occurring and intentional distractions"

The top (and fourth) layer of the pyramid it titled "4 Alert!" and simply shows a star and the words "Found It". A short description reads: "Handler recognizes the dog’s change of behaviour in response to odor and understands when their dog is at source as the result of excellent fundamental training and the dog’s expectation of reinforcement"

Off to one side of the pyramid are the words "all other skills should be built on solid foundations" with an arrow pointing to the bottom "Fundamentals" layer.

02/06/2024

I realized I gave Poppy a spotlight on Instagram but forgot to give her her kudos on Facebook!
This is Poppy!
Poppy can say with the help of her parents she is excelling at her door greetings, leave it’s, and is nicely sitting in her own space during dinner time. Poppy always made a point to be an enthusiastic student.

02/04/2024

Just wanted to spotlight Milo today.
Milo has been working hard at showing those around him he cares without using his teeth. He now knows his basics, is crate trained, and is overall showing enthusiasm for training.

01/28/2024

01/14/2024

Worked with Sienna this afternoon ! We’re tackling impulse control and being able to settle in distracting environments. Here she is settling like a pro while a German shepherd adoption event is going on in the background of PetFood express.

12/19/2023

Congratulations to Little Frank on earning his AKC Star Puppy!

12/05/2023

Frank worked hard tonight on his supervised separation/out of sight stay with duration in Home Depot. A month ago when we first introduced this exercise here the distractions were really tough for little Frank and the stress of being separated from his human was a lot. Tonight after a lot of practice, we returned to Home Depot on a busy night. He knocked this out of the park and speaks to how much work his humans have been putting into him.

12/05/2023

Mona has been a joy to work with. Every week she seems to genuinely enjoy training and shows more maturity in training weekly. Looking forward to seeing her grow as a therapy dog prospect.

12/02/2023

Interested in giving your dog a new outlet? Email or message us for details!

12/02/2023

We've got 5 Spots! Give your new puppy(and you) the gift of training this season!

11/27/2023

Vienna and I, I think, are a little rusty when it comes to our scentwork training. In the last year she definitely lost out on training time in part because of weather, in part because of the wedding. We have jumped back into trialing at the next level but what I think has happened as I reflect is that I should have taken the time to catch us back up. Instead we have hit a rough patch sprinkled with some Qs but also with false alerts and not saying alert fast enough and timing out. Truthfully, we’re having a confidence issue as a team. When you were a team that placed in nearly all of their runs to now not trusting each other, it forces you to take a step back and reflect. What would I tell a student in these moments? Take a step back and make it fun again. Practice winning again. So we’re practicing winning again and having fun.

11/27/2023

Intro to Scentwork: Week 5!

From week 1 until now I have had the opportunity to watch Kenzie come out of her she’ll and gain confidence in her own nose! This week we focused on both containers and some shelf searches.

11/24/2023

Don’t sleep on this Black Friday/ Holiday deal!

From now through Christmas save up to $15 on private classes
All in person 4 session private classes are $204!
Single sessions are $79!

10/28/2023

10/16/2023

What do we do when we aren’t training your pets?
We get to enjoy our own dogs and take them to trials. This weekend both Holly and Vienna enjoyed some Qs with placements and new titles sprinkled in.
What’s great is that I’m not only enjoying time with my dogs at these trials, I get to learn and see some fun set ups for hides I get to share with and teach you.

10/10/2023

Monday blues cured by working with little Frank tonight.

09/18/2023

Maybe you remember miss Darci from 6 weeks ago? Well she graduated her first class AND earned her AKC STAR PUPPY title. She’s got a great foundation under her and if she continues on this path like I think she will, she’ll have her CGC at a year old.

09/03/2023

What have we been up to?

We are getting ready to teach our first scentwork class! We still have some spots left, and would love to share with you the joy of scentwork!

Sign ups can be found at the link below!

https://m.signupgenius.com/ #!/showSignUp/10C0849AAAB2BA1FBC61-scentwork

07/06/2023

Excited to announce that we will be offering group scentwork classes by late summer to be held at PetFood Express in Land Park!

07/02/2023

Going forward, we will no longer be accepting check payments for classes. I apologize for any inconvenience this might hold, as I know not everyone has access to venmo or PayPal. Going forward my options for payment are: PayPal, Venmo, or Cash.

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Scentwork class 05/28

Frank helped teach scentwork this morning and was a good sport for my buried/container combo. #scentwork#dogtraining

For our last intro to scentwork class I wanted to work on levels but more importantly for our last hides before the new year I wanted to make sure they won. What I mean is: we used a familiar (containers) and each container had something in it. We had some challenging hides today so we were going to end on a high positive where all the choices were valued choices. Can’t wait to work with them again in the new year! #scentwork #dogtraining #sportdog #positivereinforcement #corgi #cairnterrier

A case of the yips

Week 5: intro to scentwork

Intro to Scentwork: Week 5! From week 1 until now I have had the opportunity to watch Kenzie come out of her she’ll and gain confidence in her own nose! This week we focused on both containers and some shelf searches.

Intro to Scentwork

We’re more than a little excited. Need an outlet for your dog? Sign up for scentwork. Want something to do with your dog but you’ve already done obedience? Sign up for scentwork. Need to give your unconfident dog some confidence? Sign up for scentwork. Have a dog that maybe for whatever reason cannot participate in other sports because of age or eyesight or such? Sign up for scentwork.

Brought a long a familiar face to help teach distraction work in Home Depot today. Here Frank is demonstrating his down stay while a child skipped nearby.

Teaching puppies to enjoy their first walks on leash with their people, is one of the simple joys I have the honor to be able to witness. #dogtraining #positivereinforcement #leashwalking #puppies

Spend a Saturday training with me!

All dogs need enrichment but it’s especially true of dogs bred to work and hunt. My dogs are trained in scentwork, but my dachshunds also do Earthdog. We just got a tunnel to practice going to ground, and it will help keep them tired while also tapping into that part of their brains that is related to the instinct to go to ground.

One of the biggest questions I get from clients and otherwise is “How do I get my dog used the nail clippers?” and the answer is: a lot of moments like this! If your dog isn’t read to touch them, just put them on the ground and when they look at them use a high value reward and just build from there. Remember: Rome wasn’t built in a day, and desensitization of the truest nature holds this to be true. Start small and build how much you’re able to do. Also work by starting at just tipping the nails versus going after doing the whole thing on all 4 paws right away.

Since we can’t do any set hides outside right now, and I think it’s still too warm to go out and about with hides, I decided to take this week to do an unboxing if you will.

A nosework session broken down-using Vienna

I wish you could hear her loudly sniffing and audibly pushing the scent through her nose. She truly uses her scent hound abilities when she searches. I also want you to take note of her ears. When she has her head down, and she’s working the odor from the ground she holds her head in a way that her ears are able to flop AND push that odor back up toward her nose. Vienna is truly the product of quality German engineering.

Frank nosework update

Frank is doing great with nosework and is really showing me he is connecting the treat pairing with the odor tubes. I love doing nosework with my girls, but teaching Frank nosework really is special because he has zero background in using his nose and he’s a unique dog to train, so it’s really rewarding for me to have him as my first unofficial student in nosework.

Freeze command

I’ve been sold on a freeze command ever since I was waiting for my order to brought out from Belk, and I watched a dog jump out of a convertible, the owners yelled their freeze cue, the dog stopped, and they were able to come grab him. Here’s Vienna demonstrating her freeze.

Beginning our recall with distractions work

Starting the recall work I should have started with her 2 years ago: Recall with distractions. Our biggest yard distraction? Cat poop. So I brought out the big guns to start with: dog cookies. You have to put in the work to see the results! I am no exception.

Brought my helper, Vienna, out to do some yard clean up with me before it got too hot out. I decided this would be a good time to show you how I keep up a good recall with a scent hound, who was actually mid air smell when I called her. Really as a base behavior a recall is a check in, it shouldn’t always be an end to things, which is why I called her, checked in, and then sent her on her way. If every time I called this dog over to me I ended her fun, I KNOW she’d pre-empt what I was doing and throw up a furry middle finger at me. I started the way many do, I used treats and a leash and rewarded her when she listened, then one day I realized we were mature and consistent enough that treats were nice but not necessary. How good is her recall? I’ve called her off of a rabbit before, no remote/no batteries/no treats. Now that’s a BIG brag for a dog with a particularly high prey drive, bred to be single minded. How did I get to this point aside from the leash and the initial treats? I got to know my dog, I worked with the dog I had in front of me not the dog I wanted as an end result. I worked in high distractions. I knew early on the biggest thing we’d be up against as a team were nature smells and things that moved, so that’s where we did most of our work. I didn’t use just everyday treats in those moments. I used what she determined were HIGH VALUES. Vienna sausages were her high values(I didn’t know she had a chicken allergy then). I used what she valued most in those moments, to solidify a partnership that made me the most interesting thing to her even around smells. There are A LOT of distractions out there so your initial goal should be to get to know what your dog deems as treats(not always a physical food. I know one dog that likes being brushed as a treat and cares little for food treats), and use those to make yourself the most interesting creature to them.

Scentwork beginnings

All scent work, I think, should start here. Some things that stand out to me right away about Frank from a training perspective is how sharp and clear he was in an indication. I don’t think indications should be taught, I think it should be unique to your dog, this of course can be frustrating at times because some dogs are subtle (my beagle for example). Luckily for me, Frank is showing me a sharp head turn when he’s on his target and no fear in getting to the correct container. I’m going to be starting virtual scentwork training in the next few weeks, and if you or anyone you know might be interested please reach out! I’m looking to have a set date and time for 4 week sessions, and I will post that when it’s been decided. I am looking to possibly do a group zoom type set up, that way you can see other teams and possibly learn from them as well.