These are moments of training from some of the dogs who went through the last couple of classes. If you are considering having your dog trained please call us for info.
Our next board and train class tentatively begins August 19th.
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I can't say it enough, don't let your young dog get hard set and older without training. It happens quickly and is difficult for most to change poor behavioral issues. We can help! 715-468-4924
We have openings available for our June 24th training group. Call us at 715-468-4924 to reserve your spot or contact us via our website www.beaverbrookkennels.com
Hello folks,
We have a last minute opening for our May 6th, six week class. Any takers?
This is a dog that I trained in the fall of 2023 that recently came back for boarding.
As with most of my training clients who also board with us, I decided to check on the dog to see how the obedience retention was going. The owner obviously followed through with the continued maintenance training and wow, is she still spot on. Good job Athena! Good job owner!
Attention hunters and household pet owners: We aren't just a “sit and down" type obedience training kennel. The boards you are seeing in the end of the video are called place markers/or place boards. The way this kennel trains place boards is not just teaching the dog to go into a box, rather it is a tool showing the dog a location to go to on command or stay at on command.
Place markers are huge in training your dog. Once properly introduced and shaped into the dogs training regimen, your dog can easily learn control with retrieval, focus, steady on gunfire, whistle stops, recall work, household marker training, e-collar conditioning and much more.
ALL TRAINING STARTS WITH OBEDIENCE!!!!!
Our next available class is June 24th.
Call us at 715-468-4924
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This is the first Belgian Malinois I have trained since I was a Sheriff K9 handler. It felt good to work with this dog, and she turned out very nice.
Our next 6 week class will start March 18. Call 715-468-4924 to reserve your dog‘s spot.
Don’t be trapped inside with a naughty dog this winter! Our last class of the season starts next month and there are a couple of spots still open. Call us today at 715-468-4924 to reserve a spot for your furry friend.
Missing the window of youth for training opportunity left in your dog over the upcoming winter months will impact the development of your dog‘s future behavior. Seasoned untrained dogs turn mentally hard and make it very difficult to train. In other words train them when their young!
Hello folks,
Our kennel is pleased to have trained over 50 dogs in the last two years. Fifty dogs may not sound like a lot to some, but it is a real number and we remain confident in the quality of our training being superior.
Our finished dogs showed significant positive changes in overall behaviors and have dramatically improved relationships with the owners. We have been told over and over that dogs came home a completely different dog. Many dogs have come in with “behavioral issues”, as the owners may say.
Since our training features a 6 week program, it has been found that the consistent structure not only teaches your dog common clear commands and sets you up for customized commands but also changes your dog’s behavior through multiple environment difficulties the dog had trouble with on prior occasion.
It has been my personal experience as a trainer that a lot of the “behavioral” issues are due to a lack of obedience. In other words, when I work with and solve behavioral issues, it ends up being obedience that was missing through confusion of the owner.
If you are on the hinge, and are considering an out of town training location (Twin Cities or close to) you may want to reconsider. I can assure you our training is not the common, and nothing you have seen before because it is not offered around our area.
Currently we are taking training requests for our next class which will start towards the end of September. Please message our site, www.beaverbrookkennels.com or call 715-468-4924.
This a future therapy dog that attended our 6 week training. The owner of this dog wanted it to go under a table on command as part of its training. So, with this request, all I needed to do was create a command for it to go underneath an object. How was this done?
A large part of the training at our kennel is “place marker” training. Place marker training is teaching a dog to go to a location. It is not just a single “place”, rather it can be multiple.
Given the proper training, dogs can learn several “markers” very rapidly. It’s the foundation of the training that takes time. Essentially, as a trainer, it is my job to paint a picture for the dog to understand, then apply the training that was put into it and “weld” them together.
In this dog’s case, after about week 4, the dog had undergone place marker training as part of our obedience package and was able to grasp the “table” command in about two 10-minute sessions.
The dog didn’t just learn to go under a table, it learned to go underneath “something” on command. I just used a table to create the presentation for the command and named the marker.
Heres a dog over 3 years old which was stubborn to begin with, we took in for our 6 week training.
This dog was from our Dec. 2022 class.
Marley, the Golden Retriever loved to heel and have his head cupped while doing so. Heeling was one of his favorites while training, and he looks pretty awesome!
This behavior was shaped well, and shows the control we can put into the dogs, which is needed for so many more commands and functions that are included in our program
We will release more unseen dogs from our class.
Don‘t let your dogs get out of control. Give us a call before they have YOU on a leash. 7154684924
A new video featuring Gracie!
Hello folks,
It’s been awhile since we’ve released any videos. It’s almost training season and we are excited to get going again!
This year we will be launching an additional training to our season aside from the existing six-week advanced onsite board-and-train course.
During the new three-week class, beginners and their dogs will undergo one-on-one training with yours truly.😁
During this class, owners will have the chance to bring their dog to our kennel twice a week where they will learn through instruction. This class is geared for owners who are looking for a starter program to learn the proper way to train their dog with basic general obedience.
If you are looking for a gentle, fun, and easy instructional class for you to take the training tools home, return, and then advance - this is the class for you.
Note: Our first 6-week board and train class is booked for the April session and our second (end of May) board and train class is limited to only a few spots left. If you were on the hinge for getting your dog trained this summer and fall, don’t wait as we anticipate filling up fast for all classes.
Go to beaverbrookkennels.com to message or call 715-468-4924 for further details, and we will be happy to speak with you.
Enjoy the following video featuring Gracie! Other videos to be posted soon!
This dog is at the end of week 5 of the 6-week training. Here, the dog is finishing up on place-marker training which has been used to assist in much of the behavior shaping. This is only a glimpse of the many steps that went into this part of the training.
There are two weeks left to sign up for our November class. It is highly likely that this will be the last class until February. Don't let the window of youth in your dog pass you by and allow your dog's behavior to harden into maturity. Call us @ 715-468-4924 for more information or to reserve your spot.
Here is a German Shepherd that came to us for obedience. A short video sums up the dog's ability to perform. Once again, a great success. WE BUILD DOGS FOR YOU! Way to go River!
We still have openings for our Nov. 7th class. Call 715-468-4924 for more information or to reserve your dog's spot.
Check out our website at www.beaverbrookkennels.com
Hello folks,
This is a coonhound that came to us for obedience training. If the owner's purpose for this dog was hunting, it would be a dream with the amount of control that has been instilled.
Although I am not thoroughly experienced with hound breeds, the control in this dog explains itself, and that the style of training used was very effective as it has been for the several other breeds we have trained. Please take note that what you are watching in this video is only the end result of the discipline that has been put in to show control. If you don't have control, you won't be able to teach your dog.
In order for me to know that the dogs are far along enough and are actually understanding the training, I have to have them "look" good, in order to know they are actually understanding the input from me. All of the dogs that come out of our training leave with the tools necessary to create the command/scenario of your desire, wither it is for gunfire steady, game retrieval, game holding, place-marking, whistle commands, hand commands, other voice commands, household discipline, etc; all can now be easily created. It's all in the conditioning, and can be custom created by you, the owner, to create your own commands.
Before the dogs are released, the owners are shown one-on-one how to create other personal commands. That's what makes our training stand out. The foundation has been built for this dog.
This is the smallest dog we have trained, and to be honest I wasn't as sure how things were going to go with her because of her size. However, as you can see, the dog did very well, only proving the mental vs physical type of training that we conduct here is in fact a superior style for dogs of all sizes. This is a Cockapoo.
Well done Ruby!
Our next class tentatively starts November 7th. Call us at 715-468-4924 or email us at [email protected]" rel="ugc" target="_blank">[email protected]
Here is another dog we released a couple of weeks ago. There are so many small steps that lead into the final outcome of any exercise.
I get a lot of demand for small simple things like getting a dog to stop jumping, pulling on a leash, etc. What you should know is that those problems are easily fixed once the dog “learns” how to avoid certain behaviors and give you desired behaviors. All you are seeing here is the dog being obedient because he learned how to “washout” undesirable behaviors and give me what I want, which is why it looks crisp. Again, we give you the tools to go home and move forward with your dog whatever purpose it may be.
Here is another dog we released a couple of weeks ago. There are so many small steps that lead into the final outcome of any exercise.
I get a lot of demand for small simple things like getting a dog to stop jumping, pulling on a leash, etc. What you should know is that those problems are easily fixed once the dog “learns” how to avoid certain behaviors and give you desired behaviors. All you are seeing here is the dog being obedient because he learned how to “washout” undesirable behaviors and give me what I want, which is why it looks crisp. Again, we give you the tools to go home and move forward with your dog with whatever purpose it may be.
This is just one of the dogs that is going through our current class, and she is doing great! We also have openings for our June class. Don’t wait for problems with your buddy, help them. A trained dog is a happy healthy dog. Visit www.beaverbrookkennels.com, or call 7154684924
This is an 8 month old Wirehair Pointing Griffon named Lucy. Lucy did an outstanding job with her training here. In fact, Lucy did so well we had time to extend her training within her time here and advance her to another stage of training. In this video, you will see Lucy in a down position, then released to fetch a thrown kong ball.
While in pursuit to retrieve the kong and still in mid flight, Lucy is called back. This type of training set-up is also known to some as a recall. This training, along with other training at our kennel, takes understanding of positive and negative reinforcement and positive and negative punishment.
The owner of this dog desires control if the dog suddenly becomes distracted. Short of me using my cat on a leash, I used the recall with a kong to simulate beginning stages of that type of control using the kong as “prey.” At this point the dog is intentionally placed in an elevated state of mind or “drive”, which requires a lot of obedience to achieve a desired effect of control that Lucy now has.
Sorry for the video stopping abruptly…….my wife was so excited that Lucy did it flawlessly that she accidentally hit the button before Lucy’s celebration!
