Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC

27/08/2024

Ask about our Labor Day Special running through the whole month of September!

27/08/2024

Running a Labor Day Special through the month of September! Contact us to find out more!

21/08/2024

We are offering two complimentary dog training sessions exclusively for Veterans, individuals with disabilities, or expectant parents residing in Central Florida, valid until the end of September.

Contact us now!

19/08/2024

Heading to the gym like this! Boom! 🤣

18/08/2024

16/08/2024

Hi everyone! Please help me find Ruby Belle a new forever home! Thanks!

Ruby Belle
3 years - Terrier Mix - 31 lbs - Fixed (spayed/neutered)
Does well with children, adults (men & female) and other dogs
She’s very playful, walks well on a leash, potty trained (but will go in the house if not taken out every 3 hours)
Crate trained - goes in in her own for mid day naps and sleeps in there at night (crate door stays open)

30/06/2024

CLIPS WITH COCO DURING HIS BOARD AND TRAIN. HOME DEPOT ADVENTURE.

Calm state of mind EXPOSURE TRAINING for puppies is important. Working them in highly stimulated environments helps desensitize them to the sounds and sights and builds not only their self confidence; but also their confidence in us as their handlers and pet parent leaders.

Practicing calm state of mind in these types of environments cultivates their pack drive connection with us.

We are practicing switching their Instinctual drives from either prey drive to pack drive or defense drive to pack drive.

Always staying relevant to the dog no matter how they feel is the key. Always leading them back to connection with us as they vacillate from instinct to instinct, helping them make the right decisions along the way so that we can safely navigate through life together.

Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC
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www.thepetpastor.com
321-279-9843

18/06/2024

Hi Guys, I can use some help re-homing this handsome good boy named Teddy! Free Training to help get you and Teddy on the right track. He is 8 years old, and is a Husky and German Shepherd mix. He has previous obedience training. It's believed he was going to be used for military work but didn't make the cut.

Teddy's original owner passed away and he has been with his current owners for about 5 months now.
They want to re-home him due to several separate situations of (quick snappy, short ) bites to the husband of the home when he approaches his wife to hand her a glass of water. I believe it's due to some protective (possibly resource) guarding of the wife of the home. I believe it's more about being unsure of what his job is and gets stressed, but he really doesn't want to be confrontational.

I have evaluated and assessed him and I can say that
His guarding is very very low level and when he is given instructions before his mom is approached he relaxes and relinquishes his perceived duties.

I approached his mom many times handing her a glass of water and he did not attack me at all and he got desensitized to it. He is misunderstood due to the owners having a lack of Understanding of Dog psychology and the husband doesn't want to try to work it out.

He loves affection and He is good with other dogs and people. He can live with another dog. Let's give this 8 Year old boy another chance at life! I can provide more essential information.

12/06/2024

If you have a dog who is a strong puller, or has leash reactivity, learning how to use tools like the prong collar and E-Collar can be a game changer.

I'm coaching my clients here on proper use of the prong collar and the E-Collar. This was day one so we will clean things up; but it's a really good beginning on a path to more freedom that they want to create with their dogs.

This session was more about observing how well Apollo did with the Prong Collar on and if it was a right fit for Apollo and his parents. So far so good.

The goal is to be able to safely navigate through life with their dogs and experience more of the world together. So we will be working on Apollo's and Nala's leash reactivity issues; but first we need to get some fundamentals down. Really good session!

Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC
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05/06/2024

My Last Session With Penny. I had help from my trusty
friend Rocco!

Penny and her mom have grown so much since we started training. Flighty Penny is becoming confident Penny by every session we have.

Penny's mom has done such a great job working with Penny and their relationship and Penny's confidence continues to grow.

Penny can now go on long walks in highly stimulated areas without freezing and her flight behavior is diminishing greatly. She can now get into her mom's car for rides.

Penny's mom is now equipped to continue building Penny's confidence and to confidently lead Penny on adventures together, experiencing more of our beautiful world!

Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC
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www.thepetpastor.com

05/06/2024

Thank you Chelsea for being so wonderful to work with! It's been a pleasure! You have been putting in the work and it shows.

I am confident that you and Penny are on the right path and that your relationship with her and her confidence will continue to grow. You are equipped now to face anything with her. It only gets better from here!

04/06/2024

Through the summer we are offering our Off Leash Adventure Package for $800

If you desire to experience more of the world with your beloved fur companion, let us help you discover the power of humane and responsible E-Collar Training that leads to more freedom for you and your dog!

Contact us for more info and ask about our payment plan.

At Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC we go above and beyond to help you create a great relationship with your dog.

[email protected]
321-279-9843
www.thepetpastor.com

04/06/2024

Through the summer we are offering our Off Leash Adventure Package for $800

If you desire to experience more of the world with your beloved fur companion, let us help you discover the power of humane and responsible E-Collar Training that leads to more freedom for you and your dog!

Contact us for more info and ask about our payment plan.

At Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC we go above and beyond to help you create a great relationship with your dog.

[email protected]
321-279-9843
www.thepetpastor.com

03/06/2024

Great last session with Dyson. It's a wonderful and blessed feeling every time I'm able to help a dog stay re-homed.

I was contacted by a dog Rescue that I help, concerning Dyson. After His first day with his new family that had agreed to test out whether Dyson would be a good fit for the new family, the family were questioning if they should keep him. They were concerned about him being aggressive, but it turns out that he can be a high arousal and high prey drive dog

Training him has strengthened his pack drive and has helped his owners understand him and create a great relationship with him. They now know how to give him the leadership needed for him to thrive. He is truly a Love bug. They were also concerned about him being able to be social with their neighbors and friends Rottweiler. They share a back yard with them. So it's imperative that they get along. On Day one it didn't look like it could work. But as you can see below now things look like everything will be ok. 🙌🙌🙌
I'll be seeing them again possibly next month to do some more training in higher stimulated environments because they want to be able to go many places with Dyson. It's a done deal, Dyson has his new forever Home!

Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC
[email protected]
www.thepetpastor.com

03/06/2024

Great last session with Dyson. It's a wonderful and blessed feeling every time I'm able to help a dog stay re-homed.

I was contacted by a dog Rescue that I help, concerning Dyson. After His first day with his new family that had agreed to test out whether Dyson would be a good fit for the new family, the family were questioning if they should keep him. They were concerned about him being aggressive, but it turns out that he can be a high arousal and high prey drive dog

Training him has strengthened his pack drive and has helped his owners understand him and create a great relationship with him. They now know how to give him the leadership needed for him to thrive. He is truly a Love bug. They were also concerned about him being able to be social with their neighbors and friends Rottweiler. They share a back yard with them. So it's imperative that they get along. On Day one it didn't look like it could work. But as you can see below now things look like everything will be ok. 🙌🙌🙌
I'll be seeing them again possibly next month to do some more training in higher stimulated environments because they want to be able to go many places with Dyson. It's a done deal, Dyson has his new forever Home!

Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC
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www.thepetpastor.com

03/05/2024

I LOVE WORKING WITH FEARFUL DOGS LIKE PENNY, AND HELPING THEM OVERCOME THEIR FEAR AND GAIN CONFIDENCE!

This is unedited work with my client and her dog Penny in our second session that happened today .

She recently rescued Penny and contacted me to help her because Penny is very flighty and has very low confidence to the point that she freezes. She has already been showing improvement after our first session last week. Her mom has been following my instructions and seeing progress. But we made even greater steps today! I love what I get to do! 😍

Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC
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www.thepetpastor.com

30/04/2024

Our final Session with Hook went great! We did some exposure training at a nearby Home Depot in Merritt Island.

Highly stimulated and active places in the past would trigger Hooks Defense Drive and he would react towards people with barks and lunges but he's really a love bug. He just gets nervous and uncomfortable and is unsure about how to handle it. So We worked on focus and engagement between Hook and His parents in a highly stimulated location. Helping them all develop their confidence in themselves and each other.
As a dog trainer you have to find what works for your clients. Every dog is different and every human client is different. Cookie cutter dog training won't always cut it.

Just 3 sessions and Hook has improved greatly! His dad can now take Hook with him to home Depot to get supplies for his plumbing business and they can venture to other places they want to enjoy with Hook because they are equipped to do so. I'm proud of them!👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌

Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC
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www.thepetpastor.com

12/04/2024

One of the questions I hear most often is: How many training sessions do you do a day?

I totally get folks trying to wrap their heads around how to approach strategizing and breaking down the amount of time they need to succeed with their dog. But...this is the wrong way to view the big picture of training and life with your dog. It's not a session or a set aside time, it's life. All the moments are training. Of course, if you're working on a new, actual behavior you can dedicate a few sessions a day to that specific development, but too many folks are viewing overall training/life as something you do and then don't do. We're training, we're not training.

If you think about living well with your dog - creating solid manners, polite and respectful behavior, and reliable training and living skills - compare it to how you'd go about doing the same with a child. Of course there would be specific teaching moments, but you wouldn't schedule raising you kid with two 25 minute sessions. Of course not. You'd teach specifics when necessary, but the majority of life would be taught in the cracks. The other moments. The "life" moments.

Every moment has the possibility of being a teaching moment, a value moment. Watch for it. And most importantly, view your dog and the behavior you want from him or her to be something you create in a constant flow, not a clock in and clock out. That just teaches your dog to clock in and clock out of good behavior.- By Sean O'Shea

12/04/2024

08/04/2024

Now, before anyone gets crazy and starts to “frenzy-type” and add lots of angry emojis, take a breath and let me explain.

If you’re looking for a great Heel, or a super reliable Recall, or a Downstay that is impervious to the chaotic world around it, training is absolutely essential. And, if you’re looking for ways “in” to help owners struggling with behavior issues, training, and the tools which often go with it, can be a huge benefit, and even a lifesaver.

My point is a simple one: most behavior issues are due to a fundamental misunderstanding, or confusion that our dogs have about us, because of us. Because we envelop them in constant affection; because we allow countless small moments which give rise to bigger ones; because when transgressions occur, we have no idea (or stomach for) how to assert ourselves and make it clear where the line is...we’ve created confusion. Our dogs, quite rightly, presume that we’re doormats, ripe for the treading, and that the environment they inhabit is ripe for whatever they decide to do with it.

Why would they think otherwise?

Of course the best approach, and best results come from traditionally understood training AND clarity about the social structure. When these are combined they’re an amazingly potent combination for great all around behavior, and a great life with your dog, but when they’re separated, one has a far greater impact and positive benefit.

You could absolutely argue that it’s all training, and in reality it is. But my point is that we prefer to lean far more heavily on the traditionally understood training, and far less so on the clarity of social structure, or less formal “training”. And the result is that the traditional training suffers without the backbone of the human defining the social boundaries without apology or timidity.

What I’m working to tease out and get folks to think about is the mindset we’ve largely set aside, or become uncomfortable with. The mindset which fuels and empowers everything else we do with our dogs—including traditional training. Because without the foundation of a clear and healthy social structure (humans lead, dogs follow), obeying commands and offering their best behavior, makes zero sense to a dog.

And given a choice between the two—traditional training without clear social structure, or clear social structure without traditional training—I’d opt for the latter every time. I wouldn’t have a highly trained dog in the traditional sense, bit I’d have a very polite, respectful, well-mannered dog that was a pleasure to live with.

But I’d never want one without the other. Which is why I share this post. Because we have no shortage of one, while the other has become almost taboo, uncivilized, and deemed unnecessary. Hopefully you’ll understand my rallying for the underdog...at least until it’s status is changed.

Commence outraged responses. 🤪

07/04/2024

EXPOSURE TRAINING WITH HOOK

Here's some of my second session with Hook and his mom in Cocoa Beach.

We did some exposure training with Hook at his mom's place of employment. She wants to be able to bring him to work with her. We have been working on Hooks reactivity towards people and dogs and she stopped taking him to her job because he would go off into defensive fight behavior.

I'm teaching his mom how to be calm and confident and how to lead Hook into a calm state of mind, while switching and controlling his Instinctual drives, keeping his focus and engagement on her. The goal is to produce trust in her leadership and guidance in highly stimulated places as she helps him become more and desensitized and allows her to just navigate them through the environment in a healthy manner.

He had some moments of defensive barking through the process; but we were able to switch him back to pack drive and calmness quickly. Take a look at how calm and comfortable we were able to get Hook to feel. I love what I do🙌🙌🙌❤️

Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC
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02/04/2024

Owners, once you truly get that nothing changes with your dog until you change, you’ll be prepared for reality. Whether that be transforming yourself and your dog, or settling for the status quo with both of you—at least you will know precisely where you stand and also precisely what to expect.

Trainers, once you truly get that nothing you can do with a dog will actually change the dog unless its owners change, you’ll also be prepared for reality. Whether that be letting go of unrealistic expectations (and the frustration/resentment that goes with) for the undetermined, or falsely feeling like Superman/Superwoman because of what you’re capable of achieving with the dog—at least you’ll know precisely where you stand and what to expect.

If both owners and trainers agree to work within the framework of reality and the obviously observable dynamics between owner and dog—or environment and dog—then both parties can approach this dog training enterprise with clarity and healthy expectations. Which would save much disappointment, resentment, and heartache on both sides.

The upshot? Owners, unless you’re truly prepared to change whatever is required to change your dog, it’s best that you save your time, money, and hopes. Trainers, unless your owners are truly prepared to change whatever is required to change their dog (this is your job to suss out), then please save them their time, money, and hopes—and on the way you’ll save your well-being and avoid much of the emotional burnout that derails so many.

29/03/2024

My friend David and I are helping dogs pulled off the euthanasia list. We have successfully integrated Jacks with David's pack consisting of Oreo and Baylor. Baylor had very bad resource guarding issues and even attacked David several times but because of his great big heart for dogs we were able to rehabilitate Baylor and there has not been any incidents for about more than 6 months so far. David recency has also rescued a female Put mix named Bella who is the grey dog in these videos and she was labeled dog aggressive. A few more controlled exposures and we believe she will assimilate with the pack. Our goal is to periodically pull dogs off the euthanasia list and rehabilitate them and prep them for adoption. Things are going very well so far. Jacks is basically ready for adoption through Animal Safe House Program of Brevard.

Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC
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www.thepetpastor.com

27/03/2024

Meet one of my cutest and newest puppy clients named Basil!

Basil is going through my raising a balanced pup program.

Her parents are learning how to give leadership to Basil and how to prevent creating common un-wanted behavioral issues.

In addition to basic commands, they are learning how to give Basil Rules boundaries and limitations, how to give clear communication, how to give Basil the things she wants on their terms not hers, how to lead Basil into a calm state of mind and reward a calm state of mind. They are also learning how to teach her to wait until she is invited to receive attention and affection and not invade the space of others. She's learning Recall and loose leash walking and much more!

Basil and her parents are doing great!

Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC
[email protected]
www.thepetpastor.com

27/03/2024

Meet one of my cutest and newest puppy clients named Basil!

Basil is going through my raising a balanced pup program.

Her parents are learning how to give leadership to Basil and how to prevent creating common un-wanted behavioral issues.

In addition to basic commands, they are learning how to give Basil Rules boundaries and limitations, how to give clear communication, how to give Basil the things she wants on their terms not hers, how to lead Basil into a calm state of mind and reward a calm state of mind. They are also learning how to teach her to wait until she is invited to receive attention and affection and not invade the space of others. She's learning Recall and loose leash walking and much more!

Basil and her parents are doing great!

Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC
[email protected]
www.thepetpastor.com

26/03/2024

My first session yesterday with With Hook.
He has leash reactivity issues, and he was rescued from a bad situation. His parents want to be able to take him places without things getting chaotic.

I'm teaching his parents Pack Leadership as well because he can be bossy and an attention getter at home after he tries to bark you out the house 🤣, but he has it mild compared to some others I have worked with. I'm working with a lot of bossy center of attention dogs lately 🤣 Overall Hook followed me very well quickly and has great potential!

Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC
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24/03/2024

Dealing with a very strong BOSSY AND ATTENTION ADDICTED Dog, who wants to be the center of attention.

Dog Training gives me access to minister to pet parents. I love when I can help them when they are at their wits end and I get to help a dog stay with their parents because I provided wisdom and a solution. What a great day 🙌

My client Melissa had her friends come over to help us teach Tatum how to be around guests.

We are teaching her to follow her mom's and her mom's Best friend Keith lead and how to wait in place until her mind is calm enough to receive affection and invitation into the space of guests.

Go to a place when told and wait to be invited or wait till someone comes to her to give her affection. If not Tatum will harass and control everyone in the room.
She has to earn more freedom. She will get there with our help.

Do you live with a very Bossy Center of Attention Dog, so you can't have guests over? I can help!

Pawsitive Pet Balance, LLC
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16/03/2024

So many owners who “let things go” convince themselves they’re simply being kind and loving, when in reality they’re being terribly unkind and selfish.

Is it kind and loving to not provide your dog with clear feedback about what is right or wrong, what is good or bad for them? Of course not, but it sure beats the heck out of having to do the “dirty work” of disciplining your dog.

And if you sell yourself on the right rationalization for why you allow what you allow and why you turn a blind eye to the stuff you see and know you should address—but don’t—you can convince yourself that all the difficult “dog parenting” you’re skipping is actually the decisions of the kinder, more caring, more virtuous, and of course more loving dog owner.

But the truth is, that stuff you allow and ignore isn’t actually for your dog, and it’s certainly not virtuous. How could it be? Allowing your dog to misbehave, to have a smaller micro-managed life, to needlessly struggle with anxiety and stress, to put themselves or others in danger… couldn’t be for them.

No. We all know that stuff is for you.

You avoid the structure, the rules, the enforcement… the discipline… for you, because it feels better than the alternative.