🐾 Do you want to get a head start on teaching your dog alternative behaviors to counter surfing, jumping on people, or dashing through the door? Checkout our Ground Control Class! 🐾
🐾 Field trips for the win! Look at little Fraser practicing recall on a long line at his third field trip ever. 🐾
Do you want your dog to perfect their skills in new environments with real life distractions? If your dog had basic obedience training or has completed our Day Training Level 2 program, reach out and schedule as many field trips as you would like!
🐾 Practicing impulse control in a variety of ways is so important for every dog! Look at this young girl understand when she has to hold her position and when she can have her beloved toy 🐾
🐾 What is a structured walk and why would I teach it to my dog? 🐾
One of the many wonderful things our dogs in training learn with us is how to handle all of the jexcitement of sniffing all over the place in a place like MSV. We teach them to walk with us on a loose leash walk using many different methods (depending on the dog and their needs and what they best respond to) and then we allow them to take "sniff breaks" off the trail every so often as we walk. An additional great thing about these sniff breaks is that you can choose to use them as reinforcement for loose leash walking instead of treats! Look at this girl learning to do just this during an outing.
🐾 Do you have a disability and looking for a service dog? Check out our young dog near the end of her training doing a fabolous job at being "invisible" while the handler shops and readily handing a dropped item back to them on cue. 🐾
🐾 Showing off the skills of this young service dog in training; Moving with the handler, pushing a "cart" and tasking! 🐾
Do you think your dog could make a good service dog to help with your disability? Are you looking to get a fully trained service dog? Check out our program! https://www.novaservicedogs.org
If your dog displays aggression toward other people/dogs, viciously guards their food, bites when you try to get into bed at night, or chases cars/other animals then we can help. Connie Moss offers 16+ years of experience working with all types of dogs and various behavioral problems. Start with an evaluation and let's get to the bottom of the problem and solve it.
🐾 No dogs are born knowing how to walk by a shopping cart, but look at this young girl starting to learn it during one of our field trips! 🐾
🐾 Hiking with your dog? Or just off leash in the yard? Teach your dog an Emergency Stop! 🐾
Click here to learn mor about Recall Revolution Part 1: https://www.rplusk9.com/group-classes
*the dog in the video and her handler were hiking on private property, so no leash required.
Field Trips!
Getting ready for field trips! Frazer is loading up like a champ!
You can sign your dog up for training field trips too. Every Friday morning 9am - 11am we load up and visit dog friendly places around Winchester. Dog pratice various behaviors such as leash walking, passing dogs and people, ignoring distractions and so much more. Reach out and have your dog join us for training field trips. 540-532-1300 or [email protected]!
Somewhere around 6 months puppy brains begin transistioning to adulthood. Some horomones are turning on while others are turning off. Parts of the brain are still developing. This makes it a tough time for both puppies and owners. Impulse control is a real challenge. So it's important to help puppies practice easy exercises with lots of success.
Here is Frazer learning how to ignore wildlife. Yep, that starts like this, not with actual wildlife. This exercise works at his level where he can have lots of success.
Force-free training and behavior modification in the Wi******er, VA area.
