Toadette and Rosalina 4 weeks
First mush!! 🐸 LOVED it. Rosalina wasn’t too interested yet. We had Peach watch from the pen nearby so she didn’t eat it. When we put Toadette back in the pen, peach looked at the mush excitedly. But first checked in Toadette and then went and ate. She is such an amazing mama.
Building trust with sweet, mama, princess peach. She has been through so much and takes such good care of her babies. I can’t wait for it to be her turn to live a wonderful retirement and a loving home.
This is how we train at Puppy Best Start! Watch with sound on. The results are kind of blowing my mind! Integrative, effective, and FUN!
2/16 Puppy Best Start! Well matched, well balanced play combined with sensory enrichment and handler focused training develops your puppy to be the best dog they can become!
We love our Puppy Best Start dogs!!
Happy First Birthday to our toy poodle Neville! His life gift was six months of intensive and knowledgeable socialization so he can spend a lifetime enjoying & experiencing his life to the fullest. His behavior is great because we can meet all his natural biological needs because he has good socialization and a good recall. We went to the ultimate birthday party playground destination. The woods and the lake.
It’s easy to succumb to feelings of guilt and self judgment if you you really don’t want to do the work with a reactive or high needs dog. But the truth is, that is what humans have wanted since the beginning of our evolution together. That’s why there’s so many different breeds that do so many different jobs. We never were much of dog trainers. We were good observers and we selectively bred the dogs to do the things we wanted and killed the ones who weren’t working out. Between our observation and dogs‘s plastic genes we got where we are today. It never was about dedication or training or doing really hard behavior modification work.
Training idea for the day!!
In the comments show me your dog taking a bow!!
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Summer is the perfect time for backyard agility with your dog! What creative obstacles can you come up with? Go have fun together and show us the video!
Real leadership is being a provider, a protector, an advocate and lots of other things. But one thing it’s not? Always having to win. I mean honestly, if you’ve got something to prove to your dog, I would argue you are a very insecure leader. #dogtraining
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Stay - Build Duration. Increase one step at a time until you reach 6 feet. Always return to your dog and return right away. At this stage the most important thing to teach them is that you are coming back and they will get released.
Why socialization matters? (Aside from any moral obligation to give your dog the best emotional & mental health they can have).
This is Neville‘s first real day of work as Jonah service dog. Everyone commented on how “well trained” he was. But actually other than the heat pressure therapy they weren’t seeing any trained behaviors and Neville doesn’t have many. He isn’t really that well trained. What he is, is very well socialized. And the ability to be relaxed and calm in a random social environment is really just about all anybody wants in their dogs behavior. (even if their goal is a Brewery, or a walk and not the dentist 😃) But you don’t get that from training. You get that from good solid socialization. So get out there and have fun adventures with your puppies! Lots and lots of them!
Get your dog to fetch!
Fetch is an excellent way for urban dogs to get exercise! if you are running into problems with Fetch, chances are they are on this list and there is an easy answer! 
Continuing to work on stay with Neville! The key to a rocksolid long-term reliable stay is to work a little bit each day. Keep the training sessions short and easy for the dog. Distance is the hardest part for Neville. And this is pretty typical of toy breeds. They have been selectively bred to be right at our heels at all times. So I keep the distance short and just very very slowly two seconds at a time build duration. People tend to want too much too fast with all dog training. But especially stay. Those of you that have seen Stella in class know what the end result of the slow steady fun approach will be!!! #dogtraining
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Oh the sweetness. Taking off with a fishing rod & your puppy. Then some buddies rolling in. #bestlife
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Dogs on logs
Freedom in nature is the greatest gift you can give your dog and yourself! 
Socialization score! The non-typical movement and sound of pogo sticks is great sensory exposure as long as you don’t force it on a scared puppy! callofthek9
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Think of developing your puppy’s brain as a Lego build. Let’s take it one step at a time. #dogtraining
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