To The Rescue Dog Training, LLC

Wynonna Mudd learning her piggie place. Practicing place is a great rainy day activity for our dog shaped friends, too. 🌧️ 🐷 🐶

We had to say goodbye to our beloved bloodhound, Huckleberry, on Wednesday May 22nd. He had an amazing career as a tracking dog, therapy dog, and demo dog. He lived out his golden years on the ranch, playing (and winning) hide and seek in the back woods with our guests. Watching him detail a track would bring tears to a knowing eye, telling the victim’s story with his keen nose and giant tail. He gave the best hugs as long as you didn’t mind the slobber and he always brought a smile to people’s faces wherever he went. He showed patience with his pack as well as client dogs, always staying neutral and knowing exactly how to act to help visiting dogs feel comfortable. He was a typical stubborn hound in many ways, but he lived and breathed for his people and his snacks so he enjoyed obedience; learning rally and almost passing his CGC. During his evaluation, he refused to sit for the first, last, and only time because he was wagging his tail at the evaluator and didn’t want to lose his momentum. We all had a good laugh about it and gave him hot dogs as we tore up his paperwork. He was truly one of the kindest souls we’ve ever known and he will be missed by so many. Run free, handsome boy. We love you, Hucko. 🧡

Thanks for your patience while we enjoyed our staycation! We are back to our normal schedule this week and responding to inquiries we received over the break. If you haven’t heard back from us by midweek, please don’t hesitate to reach out again as we got lots of spam during that time and would hate to miss someone. We’ve missed everyone and are happy to be back at it! ❤️

We will be closed to the public on Tuesday, July 4th! As always, we will be here to care for the boarding and training dogs but will not be taking texts, calls, emails, or appointments. Wishing everyone an safe and happy Independence Day. Anyone needing calming treats, secure leashes, or other holiday goodies can stock up at St PetersBARK or Holistic for Pets of Bradenton Inc 🎆🐾🇺🇸🐾🎇

Rosie loves to run and roll around but she was super stubborn about coming when called. She now has a fast, reliable recall that allows her to enjoy the outdoors safely. Keep up the good work, sweet girl! ❤️

No office hours today in honor of MLK. As always we are here to train and care for the animals. Messages and calls from over the weekend will be returned in 1-2 business days. 🐾

Opened the old YouTube time capsule to help coach a client pup through some trick dog training. Training tricks is a great way to build a relationship with your dog. During our summer heat and rain, it’s a great way to get some energy out and build skills in the AC. If you want to make it a more formal endeavor, choose from AKC’s list of dog tricks and pick your best 10 and earn a title! I can evaluate in a private lesson or video review. Happy training! ☀️#flashbackfriday

Miss Geli enjoying a little swimming and sunshine before appointments start. ☀️

Baby Spike’s first “place” session. He loves to learn! ❤️

High five to our handsome buddy, Spice, for helping us work through some recent cat reactivity cases. He is also our resident exterminator and makes sure we can keep the ranch pesticide and pest free. He is just one part of our holistic approach to keeping the animals safe and healthy! He showed up here as a stray and it took months to earn his trust but now he’s one of our most valuable working animals and beloved pets. ❤️ #employeeofthemonth #cat #farmcat #cattricks #socialization #feralcats #cattraining #organicpesrcontrol #workingcatsofinstagram #totherescue #dogtraining #tampabay

Sasha spent a couple weeks here working on her impulse control; especially to stop terrorizing the family cat. Spice helped with her training here and we proofed it with the kitty at home. Now she’s capable of being calm and curious around her feline friends and can be trusted off leash in her house. Great job, pretty girl! ❤️ #gsd #germanshepherd #totherescue #dogtraining #tampabay #obedinece #socialization #boardandtrain #dogtradog #packintegration

Sting has a fast recall but is sensitive to spacial pressure and overly polite with my personal space so we are playing with reward placement to encourage him to push in on this exercise. Allowing him to run through my space is less pressure than asking him to stay in it to get his reward so we are including this game in the beginning. Throwing the treat under your legs on a recall can also help resolve issues with dogs coming back slowly, flying by on their recall, or only getting close enough to take a treat but not close enough to touch. Video taping your sessions allows you to catch handler errors and come up with a solution. Here I catch myself stepping into him for a slow sit rather than drawing him into me which is part of the problem I’m trying to fix. Issues come from both ends of the leash and it’s our job to find a solution that’s clear to our dogs.

When starting to build a relationship with an animal, we always begin with a consistent way to manage and guide them and a valuable way to reward them. Convincing an animal to work with you for a resource is significantly more productive if they aren’t free to self reward or avoid the choice you’d like them to make. Once that relationship is built: they trust you to be fair, they trust that your requests will benefit them, and they trust that they won’t get away with a poor choice. At that point you can start enjoying more mutual freedom. Pecan will follow us anywhere we ask without a lead but that started with good halter training, leading to feed, respecting her as an animal, and not over indulging her with food and affection for our own pleasure. Calm consistency has given her confidence in us and us in her. The same applies to you and your dogs. She’s a pleasure to share our ranch with, safe around kids and other animals, and never stressed by husbandry or her environment. Teaching a dog to properly yield to leash pressure and to work for their resources empowers you to communicate clearly and is a critical foundation to teach them any behavior reliably.