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This weeks #TrainingTipTuesday
#TrainingTipTuesday
Last week, we built the "FOCUS" cue, and today, we are introducing a controlled distraction to proof the cue. Proofing is using a competing motivator to your dog that you have planned to ensure that even when distracted, your instructions work.
The Airplane Sit game uses food (or toys) in our hands to see if the dog can look away from the reward to us in close proximity
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β€οΈ Motivation for work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs
#TrainingTipTuesday (redo, sorry the video didnt attach yesterday)
Teach your dog to make a connection for active listening on purpose. Like small kids (or grown adults of 30something), if your dog is looking at something else thats what they are thinking about.
Using "FOCUS" to get attention limits errors on the next instruction and reduces conflict in training and execution
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
Confidence Building π
No Age Cap π
No Breed RestrictionsβοΈ
#PNWdogs #insafehands #canineprofessionals #Woodland #WA #PERSIST
πΊ Building Trust
π Creating Engagement
πΎ Achieve Solid Foundations, Problem Solve existing behaviors and set New Goals
β€οΈ Motivation for work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs
#TrainingTipTuesday (redo. Sorry the video didnt post yesterday)
Teach your dog to make a connection for active listening on purpose. Like small kids (or grown adults of 30something), if your dog is looking at something else thats what they are thinking about.
Using "FOCUS" to get attention limits errors on the next instruction and reduces conflict in training and execution
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
Confidence Building π
No Age Cap π
No Breed RestrictionsβοΈ
#PNWdogs #insafehands #canineprofessionals #Woodland #WA #PERSIST
πΊ Building Trust
π Creating Engagement
πΎ Achieve Solid Foundations, Problem Solve existing behaviors and set New Goals
β€οΈ Motivation for work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs
#TrainingTipTuesday
Teach your dog to make a connection for active listening on purpose. Like small kids (or grown adults of 30something), if your dog is looking at something else thats what they are thinking about.
Using "FOCUS" to get attention limits errors on the next instruction and reduces conflict in training and execution
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
Confidence Building π
No Age Cap π
No Breed RestrictionsβοΈ
#PNWdogs #insafehands #canineprofessionals #Woodland #WA #PERSIST
πΊ Building Trust
π Creating Engagement
πΎ Achieve Solid Foundations, Problem Solve existing behaviors and set New Goals
β€οΈ Motivation for work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs
As promised, here is our submission example for our February training challenge:
Send to place at 4 paces and hold 30 seconds
Drop your submissions in the comments
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
Confidence Building π
No Age Cap π
No Breed RestrictionsβοΈ
Intact dogs welcome π«Ά
#PNWdogs #insafehands #canineprofessionals #lewisrivervalley #PERSIST #ThursdayThoughts
πΊ Building Trust
π Creating Engagement
πΎ Achieve Solid Foundations, Problem Solve existing behaviors and set New Goals
β€οΈ Motivation for work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs
#TrainingTipTuesday
Sticking with our challenge from yesterday, here's how to add distance to "bed"
1 - provide a couple warm up tries directly bext to your station or walking over with your dog so they clue into the game we're playing
2 - make it easy, only add a single pace of distance. When they achieve the standard, hold for 3 seconds and release (we will work duration separately)
3 - add another pace when you get back to back success. If your dog is confused, its ok to returb to no distance or 1 pace.
4 - end on a win. This should be a short and fun game. 3 to 5 minutes is plenty of practice.
* If your dog is struggling, dont practice 10 bad attempts to end on a win of this behavior. Switch to a reliable cue, get the win and tomorrow is a new day to try again
Freddie has built the foundation behaviors, and now we are appmying them to walking past other dogs (Caspian) without reactivity.
Her interest is there, but now Freddie finds alternative value and reward in working with her people. Well done!
Good training isn't always flashy, but properly curated situations to challenge and improve your dog's capabilities.
Need help setting up those drills? Not sure where to start? Book your new client evaluation here:
https://www.pulltogetherk9.com/book-now
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
Confidence Building π
No Age Cap π
No Breed RestrictionsβοΈ
#PNWdogs #IACP #insafehands #canineprofessionals #showupandtrain
πΊ Build #TRUST through:
Private Lessons, Classes and all things related to #dogtraining
π Creating #ENGAGEMENT via:
CLEAR communication and TEAM work!
Leading to: Real Life Skills, Dog Social Skills, and Dog Sports!
πΎ We can help you #ACHIEVE:
Solid Foundations or Problem Solve existing behaviors and set New Goals
β€οΈ We love to #MOTIVATE and work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs
Yeti showing off with me practice. Is it perfect and flashy? No - but building block training rarely is. The most important thing is to start where you can be successful and lay a good foundation
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
Confidence Building π
No Age Cap π
No Breed RestrictionsβοΈ
#PNWdogs #IACP #insafehands #canineprofessionals #showupandtrain
πΊ Build #TRUST through:
Private Lessons, Classes and all things related to #dogtraining
π Creating #ENGAGEMENT via:
CLEAR communication and TEAM work!
Leading to: Real Life Skills, Dog Social Skills, and Dog Sports!
πΎ We can help you #ACHIEVE:
Solid Foundations or Problem Solve existing behaviors and set New Goals
β€οΈ We love to #MOTIVATE and work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs
Maxie and Lila had their first lesson. Maxie is (sort of) pictured here working on calm leash skills with her mom.
We are working on building clear criteria and communication around what behaviors will be rewarded with motion and which behaviors have us stop and reset.
The key is not to rush leash training - practice does not make perfect...it makes permanent. Slow down and practice what you want to see
Just like Maxie did!
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
Confidence Building π
No Age Cap π
No Breed RestrictionsβοΈ
#PNWdogs #IACP #insafehands #canineprofessionals #showupandtrain
πΊ Build #TRUST through:
Private Lessons, Classes and all things related to #dogtraining
π Creating #ENGAGEMENT via:
CLEAR communication and TEAM work!
Leading to: Real Life Skills, Dog Social Skills, and Dog Sports!
πΎ We can help you #ACHIEVE:
Solid Foundations or Problem Solve existing behaviors and set New Goals
β€οΈ We love to #MOTIVATE and work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs
The best training often looks like nothing at all. Yeti is working on his separation anxiety from his people. Previously, Yeti would pace, vocalize, and dig to try and follow his family.
We did some practice at providing him a smaller but comfortable boundary to remain in and prevent the anxiety cycle from starting.
30 seconds may not seem like a lot, but meaningful change comes in mm not meters
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
Confidence Building π
No Age Cap π
No Breed RestrictionsβοΈ
#PNWdogs #IACP #insafehands #canineprofessionals #showupandtrain
πΊ Build #TRUST through:
Private Lessons, Classes and all things related to #dogtraining
π Creating #ENGAGEMENT via:
CLEAR communication and TEAM work!
Leading to: Real Life Skills, Dog Social Skills, and Dog Sports!
πΎ We can help you #ACHIEVE:
Solid Foundations or Problem Solve existing behaviors and set New Goals
β€οΈ We love to #MOTIVATE and work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs
Took me a while (laziness) to upload this, but puppy Echo was learning "mat" as a building block for being invited onto the furniture but only onto her blanket.
Does your dog need help following boundaries? We can assist you in crafting those rules and building a training plan
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
Confidence Building π
No Age Cap π
No Breed RestrictionsβοΈ
#PNWdogs #IACP #insafehands #canineprofessionals #showupandtrain
πΊ Build #TRUST through:
Private Lessons, Classes and all things related to #dogtraining
π Creating #ENGAGEMENT via:
CLEAR communication and TEAM work!
Leading to: Real Life Skills, Dog Social Skills, and Dog Sports!
πΎ We can help you #ACHIEVE:
Solid Foundations or Problem Solve existing behaviors and set New Goals
β€οΈ We love to #MOTIVATE and work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs
This is our 3rd lesson with Lucy, I'm so impressed with how much progress she has made over these last few weeks
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
Confidence Building π
No Age Cap π
No Breed RestrictionsβοΈ
#PNWdogs #IACP #insafehands #canineprofessionals #showupandtrain
πΊ Build #TRUST through:
Private Lessons, Classes, and all things related to #dogtraining
π Creating #ENGAGEMENT via:
CLEAR communication and TEAM work!
Leading to: Real Life Skills, Dog Social Skills, and Dog Sports!
πΎ We can help you #ACHIEVE:
Solid Foundations or Problem Solve existing behaviors and set New Goals
β€οΈ We love to #MOTIVATE and work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs
I can feel someones eye twitching already. Yes, I am allowing a retractable leash. This is the tool the owner wants to use, so instead of fighting it - I'm choosing to educate on how to use it diligently and effectively.
We all see so many posts bemoaning uncontrolled off leash dogs rushing others. As trainers maybe we need to take a step back and reintroduce a tool that does exist to give owners a responsible middle ground of freedom with accountability.
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
#PNWdogs #IACP #insafehands #canineprofessionals #showupandtrain
#littledogstraintoo #retractableleash
πΊ Build #TRUST through:
Private Lessons, Classes and all things related to #dogtraining
π Creating #ENGAGEMENT via:
CLEAR communication and TEAM work!
Leading to: Real Life Skills, Dog Social Skills, and Dog Sports!
πΎ We can help you #ACHIEVE:
Solid Foundations or Problem Solve existing behaviors and set New Goals
β€οΈ We love to #MOTIVATE and work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs
Asha had our next lesson, and look at all this progress with our housemate Lilly. We focused on rewarding anything right opposed to correcting wrong behavior.
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
Confidence Buildingπ
No Breed Restrictions βΌοΈ
No Age Cap βοΈ
#PNWdogs #IACP #insafehands #canineprofessionals #showupandtrain
πΊ Build #TRUST through:
Private Lessons, Classes and all things related to #dogtraining
π Creating #ENGAGEMENT via:
CLEAR communication and TEAM work!
Leading to: Real Life Skills, Dog Social Skills, and Dog Sports!
πΎ We can help you #ACHIEVE:
Solid Foundations or Problem Solve existing behaviors and set New Goals
β€οΈ We love to #MOTIVATE and work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs #GSDPuppy
Porter's second session with us. Previously, Porter would find tools on the grooming table very stressful and scary. So his parents and I made a training routine using cooperative care at ground level. Today we took that routine and moved a known habit onto the table. We're so proud of his progress at being a better client for professional grooming
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
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πΊ Build #TRUST through:
#Privatelessons #classes and all things related to #dogtraining with #canineprofessionals
π Creating #ENGAGEMENT via:
#DogSports #Socialskills #FoundationWork #LifeSkills #DogsWithJobs #PositiveReinforcement #CLEARcommunication and #TEAMwork
πΎ We can help you #ACHIEVE #solidfoundations or #ProblemSolve existing behaviors and set #newgoals
β€οΈ We love to #MOTIVATE and work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs
Well its the end of Boris's first week of homeschooling. We're so.proud to see his handler focus coming together. Today we added in 2 new cues: "Down" & "About"
Boris wasn't quite sure about "Down" but picked up "about" almost immediately. Stay tuned for his journey and see what next week Boris has to show off
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
#PNWdogs #woodlandWA #RescueAdvocate #PreservationBreeder #trainerlife #SledDogs #IACP #insafehands
πΊ Build #TRUST through:
#Privatelessons #classes and all things related to #dogtraining with #canineprofessionals
π Creating #ENGAGEMENT via:
#DogSports #Socialskills #FoundationWork #LifeSkills #DogsWithJobs #PositiveReinforcement #CLEARcommunication and #TEAMwork
πΎ We can help you #ACHIEVE #solidfoundations or #ProblemSolve existing behaviors and set #newgoals
β€οΈ We love to #MOTIVATE and work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs #GSD
We built the foundation behaviors for Walter to face his challenge, On-leash reactivity to other dogs. Yesterday was about taking those foundation pieces and putting them into action.
Using our total trainer π§°: rewards, tools for management, alternative behaviors Walter was able to get some great rounds in approaching a neutral dog.
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
#PNWdogs #woodlandWA #RescueAdvocate #PreservationBreeder #trainerlife #SledDogs #IACP #insafehands #bringingbalancetodogtraining
πΊ Build #TRUST through:
#Privatelessons #classes and all things related to #dogtraining with #canineprofessionals #ecollar #minieducator
π Creating #ENGAGEMENT via:
#DogSports #Socialskills #FoundationWork #LifeSkills #DogsWithJobs #PositiveReinforcement #CLEARcommunication and #TEAMwork
πΎ We can help you #ACHIEVE #solidfoundations or #ProblemSolve existing behaviors and set #newgoals
β€οΈ We love to #MOTIVATE and work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs #Labradoodle
Boris spent the morning with us on Thursday to evaluate what program would be best to maximize his potential.
He's a newer adoption who is adjusting and establishing his core behaviors and impulse control
Together with his family, we selected a #homeschool option, where each weekday our team will come to Boris for a lesson instead of a Board & Train and asking Boris to learn yet another new setting
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Pull Together K9
Woodland, WA Owned & Operated
#PNWdogs #woodlandWA #RescueAdvocate #PreservationBreeder #trainerlife #IACP #gsd
πΊ Build #TRUST through:
#Privatelessons #classes and all things related to #dogtraining
π Creating #ENGAGEMENT via:
#DogSports #Socialskills #FoundationWork #LifeSkills #DogsWithJobs #PositiveReinforcement #CLEARcommunication and #TEAMwork
πΎ We can help you #ACHIEVE #solidfoundations or #ProblemSolve existing behaviors
β€οΈ We love to #MOTIVATE and work with ALL dog breeds! Especially #rescuedogs and #purposebreddogs