❌When we see a hyper dog that has a hard time settling, we see a dog that doesn’t know how to regulate their nervous system.
❌A hyper dog does NOT need more exercise to “drain” their energy.
❎This will only cause the dog to get more aroused on the day to day.
✅We need to communicate to the dogs BODY (your dogs body is their subconscious) that they can be in a state of peace and relaxation and everything will be okay.
✅A hyper dog should be getting a long lasting food enrichment 2-4+ times a day!
👍When they are digesting and taking in food they are in their parasympathetic nervous system.
✅The parasympathetic nervous system is the rest digest state. The neutral state. This state is the negative polarity. Its when the body is pulling energy in (receiving/absorbing) rather then pushing energy out (projecting).
💜This is the state we want our dog in MOST of the time, it’s the “go with the flow” state.
🐾What triggers this nervous system/polarity is when we are drawing things inward rather than projecting outward. Some activities to foster this state are chewing, licking, drinking, sniffing, eating, napping, basking in the sun etc.
🐕Some physical characteristics that you can see would be things like soft gestures, soft eyes, ears dipped back rather than tense and erected, open mouth, belly breathing etc.
🥳Some mental/emotional characteristics of this state would be, calm, relaxed, responsive to our voice and touch, gentle gaze rather than intense focus etc.
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☀️Sneak peak into the retreat grounds!!!
DOG TRAINING RETREAT!!
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This is only a part of it! It’s beautiful to say the least☺️
💜No obedience is needed to have good dogs that listen. Only relationship work has been done with my three dogs. All rescues with severe issues such as aggression and reactivity.🙏🏻
Always be in communication with your dog. This is key 🔑
🐕 Dogs have subtle forms of communication and we must be a part of that conversation.
🙏🏻💜What a lovely walk with my girls.
🐕 🐕 Who ever said harnesses create pulling ⁉️
👎🏼 Many professionals will tell you a harness will make your dog pull. 🚫This is their excuse to use a pincher, choke, or shock collar.❌
🤔Yes, fear inflicting tools may work..sometimes in the moment. But is their growth and actual learning taking place❓ NO‼️
It works because it’s using fear, pain, or fear of pain☠️
❤️A rock solid relationship doesn’t use fear, pain, or fear of pain.
💪🏼A strong solid relationship uses patience, calm confident communication, empathy, understanding, and most importantly remaining grounded and neutral.
📣💬 A balanced relationship allows the dog to feel heard! We don’t judged or punish them for expressing something.
🕰 Learning takes time. Teaching takes time. Allow the process to happen. Both you and your dog will have tremendous growth. 🙏🏻
😌When your dog realizes you understand them and are helping them rather than forcing them through situations; they will thrive! 🙌🏻
💜These are my two adult rescues, no leash skills upon adoption. Both clipped to my jogging leash and walking loose lead like champs. 👏🏻
Did it take time and patience? YES‼️
A little morning enrichment for these two 💜
🏕Little Ms Spring went on her first camping trip!
🐾 I wanted to spend some one on one time with her and I thought an overnight camping experience is perfect.
🐾She did wonderful! She is learning that scary things aren’t so scary! I’m so proud of her. All I thought while spending time with her is, “ she sure is going to make some family very happy”.
🌸Spring will brighten everyday you have with her.
If you are interested in adopting her, please fill out an adoption form through:
https://www.animalhouseshelter.com
💜✅Look at Ms. Spring calming her mind and learning how to not be in full panic outside on leash!! Good job Spring!!!
💜Amazed at how far Ms. Spring has come with her leash communication skills in such a short time!💜
🚫This video is when she has ZERO leash communication skills.
✅VIDEO OF HER AFTER JUST A FEW DAYS OF GUIDANCE AND LEASH COMMUNICATION WORK COMING NEXT!!
💜Here are the videos of Mrs. Spring after I worked in a gentle way to help calm her mind.
😊I was even able to have the adoption door open with commotion in the lobby and her staying calm and content.
🙏🏻This was the first hour at the shelter in the adoption room.
😞They said she has been looked at by a few families but does not show well because of her racing mind.
🙏🏻Sometimes all they need is a little time to feel safe. After over an hour of working on bringing her anxiety down using an extremely gentle method she settled down. She even allowed me to have the door open and speak to staff about fostering her all while r remaining relaxed. Videos to follow.
Luna and Mama
🤯Walks can be enjoyable! Even with more than one dog!
🤪I do very little leash/walking training…I found it comes down to “getting your dog to WANT to walk next to you!” 🤩
😎Relationship/trust work + leash communication practices= calm chill walk.
Here are the “sisters😍”.
