Good dogs wear muzzles too 🥰
Senior swimmer 🐕🐾
This is our 4th year with a pool. It is also the 1st year Arlo has gone in it and swam, despite being an avid swimmer in lakes, oceans, rivers, etc.
I tried to a few years ago to work on a training plan to help Arlo become more comfortable and get in the pool. The motivation was solely to provide him access to cooling off during the hot 🥵 summer months as well as a way to physically exercise.
Turns out, patience and managing my own expectations was the real key 🔑 Oh, and a little help from his frens 🐕
Winston is playing the check-in game. This is a foundational skill for anti-predation training. If your dog is too distracted by the environment to check-in with you, even occasionally, then making progress with chasing critters isn’t going to happen.
Notice we are working inside, at home, with zero distractions. We will build fluency here first, then incrementally and gradually fade in distractions before we even attempt to use this out in the woods on trails or in the presence of wildlife.
#predationsubstitutetraining #pstinstructorcourse #forcefreetraining #rescuedogsrule
I don’t know who needs to hear this today but REAL live dogs make noises and jump and have needs and wants and stuff…
Don’t fall for the “Disney” dog trap thinking “good” dogs just lay around lookin’ cute af and do everything we want them to all the time without training them or asking them or “commanding” them.
My living with dogs philosophy? So glad you asked 😂 !
If ya can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!!! Have some fluffing fun, yeah?
(and no.. you can’t beat them). Let’s not trigger me. I am a millennial who bought a house *for* my dogs.
#fearfreedogtraining #liveahappierlifewithyourdog #stopstressing #letdogsbedogs #dogsdoweirdsh*t
