K9 Behavior Modification

08/12/2024

It’s no surprise that Shih Tzu owners have been so delighted with this little “Lion Dog” for a thousand years. Where Shih Tzu go, giggles and mischief follow.

Why do you love the breed?

08/10/2024

Pit bulls are the best type of therapy 💯

08/09/2024

Many people are ✨shocked✨ to see that my dogs aren’t super dog-friendly. They’re a dog trainer’s dog, how can they be so mean?

“Mean” because they don’t run up to other dogs, mean because they aren’t dying to meet your dog, mean because they don’t tolerate inappropriate behavior..

To me, they’re an example of dogs with healthy boundaries and relationships to others. It seems to be the “norm” for a lot of dog owners to expect other dogs to tolerate all of their own dog’s behavior. If your child was being harassed by another child, would you tell them to tolerate it? Of course not; we would intervene and the same should be happening for our dogs.

Any inappropriate behavior (posturing, face licking, jumping, excessive sniffing), or really any behavior that makes the receiving dog uncomfortable, should be interrupted or punished.

This can happen in two ways: we intervene which is the preferred method. If your puppy is face-licking your older dog and your older dog isn’t enjoying it/is trying to get away, etc, it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to remove the puppy from the older dog. We should not except any dog to tolerate annoying behavior and we certainly don’t want to raise our puppies to continue this. Or if your male dog is excessively sniffing a female dog to the point she’s uncomfortable, you can interrupt or punish that with a “no,” a nick on the ecollar, separating them, etc. It is your responsibility to manage your own dog and advocate for others.

The other option is to allow the receiving dog to correct the inappropriate dog, but this is rarely efficient and should only happen under very strict circumstances. We never want to allow a dog we don’t know to correct our dog. There’s a good chance they won’t, which will teach tolerance, and there’s an equally good chance they will overcorrect, resulting in injury or fight.

Often a puppy is raised where other dogs are expected to tolerate behavior. One day the puppy runs up to a dog and starts behavior that they’ve rehearsed, the new dog doesn’t tolerate it and corrects the dog/starts a fight...

Read the full article here:

https://www.horizonretrievers.com/post/socialization-1

07/29/2024

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07/28/2024

07/26/2024

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07/26/2024

FOSTER FAMILIES NEEDED!
If your interested in fostering please fill out our form and Brook ( Founder of Puplandia) will be in contact with you and set up a one to one meet up to answer questions and meet your Pack to help make sure to place the right foster with you.

Puplandiadogrescue.org/foster

Our website gives a ton of information, answers are most common questions and provides an application to foster.
We are hoping to find 5 new foster families for dogs, puppies of all ages, breeds, sizes.
We currently turn away 5 dogs a day.
We can save more lives with more foster families.

07/26/2024

07/25/2024

How do you respond to clients that are like this?

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07/25/2024

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07/25/2024

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07/25/2024

The Ibizan Hound is a lithe and leggy visitor from the dawn of civilization, bred as a rabbit courser on the rocky shores of Spain’s Balearic Islands.

Why do you love the breed?

07/24/2024

Hey everyone hope the dog days of summer aren’t hitting you too hard.
Be prepared to see an uptick in posts as NovaBomb K9 takes back on the great PNW and PDX with our friends at K9 behavior Modification!!

Recently the NBK9 team took on PDX pride, our first airplane flight, the mall, some general training and the PDX Saturday market!

07/23/2024

The quick, curious Papillon is a toy dog of singular beauty and upbeat athleticism. They are happy, alert, and friendly.

Why do you love the breed?

07/22/2024

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07/19/2024

Loud and proud 🫡🤣

E collars save lives.

E collars keep dogs out of shelters.

E collars allow for clear communication with dogs.

E collars are a separate language that dogs need to learn (no you cannot just slap one on your dog and expect it to listen to your obedience commands. If you’re correcting unwanted behaviors and that’s a whole separate post in itself)

E collars are sophisticated pieces of technology and it’s really a shame they get such a bad reputation.

If people actually took the time to understand them, there would be a lot less emotionally charged information out there keeping people afraid and dogs struggling.

We have worked with a lot of dogs, and we’ve never seen one get worse from e collar training.

Why?

Because e collars are just a means to communicate with a dog—no different than a leash or martingale collar.

The success of the dog always relies on the skill of the handler, which is why we spend so much time educating folks on how to use the tools while making training simple.

07/19/2024

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07/19/2024

Trainers routinely watch dogs play the game of offering their best to those who demand it and offering something very different to those who don’t.

The sheer number of highly trained dogs running around pretending not to know anything is one of the greatest ruses ever pulled on permissive and/or gullible owners.

This is why your trainer can’t (or shouldn’t) make any guarantees about how the dog will behave with you—because if you won’t hold the dog accountable for what it knows and is capable of, your dog’s “memory” will be impressively brief.

Of course your trainer has to train you as much as they do the dog—or more—but once that knowledge is passed along, only one party can make the new reality… reality.

And yes, you can feel free to substitute child for dog if that helps bring more clarity to this dynamic that you’ve almost certainly seen in other contexts.
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07/17/2024

These sleek and racy, lean but muscular hounds work dusk to dawn in pursuit of the wily raccoon. The sight of the American English Coonhound tearing through the moonlit woods, all sinew and determination, bawling their l***y night music, is coon-hunter heaven.

Why do you love the breed?