Mother of Dachshund Training LLC

08/30/2024

We unfortunately lost a member of our training staff this week. Holly, was often used to work with puppy clients and reactive dogs ready to work with neutral dogs. Holly loved coming to work with me to work with your dogs and her absence will be felt.

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.