I’ll be booking Kane’s Trick Dog Test tomorrow. When he passes 🤞🏻 he’ll have some more cool letters after his name 😎 Here’s his latest talent he’ll be demonstrating at the test 😁
Most people sit down and watch a bit of tv in their jammies at the end of the day. Me, I train... in my jammies 🙂
Super proud of my little Doodle buddy, Dallas’, progress. Dallas is in training for Service Dog work. At just 5 months old he is learning to recognize gestures and behaviors and interrupt them.
Service dog training is more than an obedient dog. A service dog MUST be trained to perform Tasks that are imperative to their owner in their daily life.
Joanne Schneider Ripple
Hannah Ripple
Good evening folks!
Here’s a little video of my Board and Train Student, Trotz. The video shows his very first time retrieving items for me while outside the house. In other words, obeying my commands even with the added distraction of my neighbors doing their lawn and washing their car, along side other sights and sounds. When you add new distractions to an already learned command, sometimes you need to go back a few steps in the dogs training to win their attention. I do not correct dogs if they go wrong in completing commands they are not 100% competent in. That wouldn’t be fair. A dog is not fully trained in any command until they can do it no matter where they are or what’s going on around them. Trotz is coming along great 🙂 ❤️
Robin Denton
A few minutes talk about puppies 🙂
As always, I urge folks to work with a reputable trainer, to get their puppies and dogs on the right track ❤️
Hello folks!
It’s a stormy evening here in Central Texas. I thought I’d make use of it by demonstrating how your energy, tone of voice, and intention is absolutely critical in behavioral work with dogs. I posted a video on the 4th of July with the same Board and Train Student. As I explained then, when she came to me she was deathly afraid of storms, fireworks, sudden loud noises in general. Her time with me couldn’t have been planned more perfectly as we had the fireworks on Independence Day, and regular stormy weather lately.
Anyway, this is a couple of minutes of work with a little dog who, before coming to me just over two weeks ago, would have vomited, urinated, and even defecated in terror in a similar situation. I think she’s doing great, don’t you 🙂 ❤️
A nice controlled loose leash walk is probably the number one wish I hear from most dog owners. After all, who finds being dragged down the street, afraid you’ll run into another living thing, relaxing and enjoyable?!?! Exactly, nobody.
So many folks I meet don’t take their dog out of the house at all for fear of the way they behave on a leash.
Even a dog in the biggest house with a huge yard, needs to be taken for daily controlled walks. They need to experience life outside their home to keep them from becoming fearful, territorial, and even sometimes aggressive.
Now believe it or not, a crazed, pull your arm right out of its socket, kind of walk does little to relax the body and mind of a dog. In actual fact it can wind them up and have the opposite effect. That dog that no matter how much it zoomies around the house, yard, or dog park, it comes home and is still charged- yup, that’s because its mind has not stilled itself. The dog is so amped up it cant relax. This is why the controlled loose leash walk is vital. The dog has to concentrate on being calm throughout the walk, and nothing else. He/ she gets into a rhythm with the human and they are moving as a unit instead of fighting each other. Sounds great, right.
With the right techniques and training, even the most difficult dog and frustrated owner can be taught to relax and enjoy a walk together :)
