Confident Paws Dog Training

12/02/2024

11/12/2024

Super Bowls from Leslie McDevitt’s Control Unleashed!

09/28/2024

With September being National Service Dog Awareness Month as well as National Deaf Awareness Month, we are taking advantage of this time to tell you about a very special kind of service dog that helps those who are Deaf or hard of hearing. Read all about what hearing assistance dogs can do in our latest blog:
https://atlasdog.org/4-ways-a-hearing-assistance-dog-provides-safety-and-independence/

09/26/2024

We often talk about ways we can make life easier for our dogs but let's change it up and talk about things we can do for other dogs in our community! Especially the kiddos with behavioral challenges!

What other small gestures would you add to this list?

08/27/2024

Happy National Dog Day 🐾

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08/19/2024

Using mat work and counter conditioning to help Duffy stay calm and resist the impulse of barking and fence running when stimulated by dogs barking. My teenager needs some work🤦‍♀️ but great work Duffy!

08/11/2024

Teaching “Drop” cue with treats BEFORE introducing the object. Fun games with the flirt pole working on emotional regulation🐾💜

08/11/2024

Vagus nerve stimulation - helping Duffy to be a Doodle that can chill😎

07/24/2024

Summer is a wonderful time where we can enjoy vacations and extra time with family. It also tends to be a busy time for most folks.

What makes summer the best? A dog that can be around other pups and their people in new and exciting environements but still focus on you!

Breaking routines can be a wonderful part of summer vacations but this can be very hard on our pups as our expectations of them remains the same regardless of new environments full of distractions that can cause over stimulation.

Dogs thrive with consistency and routine, and they can show their emotions or overwhelm in ways that quickly become behaviors that pet parents find frustrating and overwhelming.

These behaviors seem to come out of nowhere leaving clients at a loss as to how to handle them. These behaviors can be destructive chewing and digging in unwanted places, having a harder time settling in their crates for sleep or during the day, barking more or at different things, seeming to “ignore” cues/commands that were previously spot on!

Sometimes this can be made worse by thinking they need more exercise or inadvertently reinforcing behavior that we don’t like or trying to punish them for doing something “wrong”.

What dogs really need is to feel safe, to learn to self regulate and to get their nervous system back into a calm state. They need outlets to soothe their emotions. They need to have a trusting relationship with their pet parent that is solid with clear communication going both ways. What this looks like varies from dog to dog.

I work with families to better understand how their pups learn and how they show emotions by learning to read their body language and engage with their pup in a relational way to get back on track again!

For dogs to have solid behavior in highly distracting environments it takes a lot of work to get there. I help my clients with the “heavy lifting”, using behavior modification tools to help build confidence at the dog’s pace using positive reinforcement methods and then practice, practice, practice! Short game based lessons keep training moving forward and builds long term consistency because it’s fun for everyone!!

Please send me an email: [email protected]. I am happy to share a free mini course (videos and handouts to accommodate different learning styles) to give you training tips to direct your family from chaos back to calm. I also offer a free 15 minute consult to see if we are the right fit for each other and then customize packages from there 🐾💜.

Currently offering Day Training/Walk & Trains in Woodinville, Redmond, Kirkland, and Bellvue!

02/02/2024

https://www.clickertraining.com/node/54 #:~:text=Put%20one%20dog%20in%20the,clicks%20from%20the%20other%20person.

Q: We have a couple of two-year-old Lab/Rhodesian?/Shepherd? mix "pups," two sisters that were found abandoned. We have had some success using traditional training techniques, but would like to try incorporating the clicker. Do you have any recommendations for using the training with two dogs? Even....

01/25/2024

So very excited to be taking one of these pups home on Valentine’s Day!!! Can’t recommend this breeder enough! The patience, love, socialization to novel things in a safe way, she’s incredible!

01/12/2024

Variation of final chain