Monday was Pipers birthday! We are so lucky to have such a smart and sassy friend with us at school 💛 To many more trips around the sun little one! #birthday #happybirthday #puppybirthday #dogbirthday #happybirthdaypup #bordercollie
Our enrichment this week is carved out mini pumpkin snacks!
The Monday kids LOVED them 🥰
The apothecary is open for business, come check out all the scares at Happy Tails in Greenfield from 4pm-7pm!
What do you do when mistakes happen?I do nothing 🤷🏻♀️There isn’t much TO do in this type of situation. If Hazel kept jumping or mistakes kept happening I would pause and reassess my training plan. Take a step back and ask myself how can I rearrange this set up so that it’s easier to achieve my goal. She only jumped up the one time, so it wasn’t a big deal. Sure, I could “accidentally” reinforce the jumping because she got a freebie right after the behavior, but also any other reaction could have other effects. If I *yelled* at her for this jump I could have scared her and tarnished the training sessions and how she views me. If I lunged for the treat so she didn’t get it I could have also spooked her and tarnished the session. I could have also been seen as an unpredictable or unpleasant human to be around causing stress. Letting her get her freebie and then just starting over was the best route to keep the session fun, keep the way Hazel views me as a safe human, and to keep moving forward in our training. It has taken me time to really understand this in training. Our human response is to react, sometimes we have to just let it play out to get back on track as quickly as possible!
Yes it WAS hard to find a song that wasn’t EXTREMELY sexual for this video, thank you for asking!But anyway I am very excited to start using this tool in training! Lick mat/ target stick combo the Lick & Learn is available on Clean Run! It was developed by Leslie McDevitt and Clean Run and is super adaptable for pattern games and other types of training! In this video I’m using it with Quena to work on up & down. She can lick until she is done, then orients to my face to start the next loop! #DogTraining #DogTrainer #Dogs #CleanRun #ControlUnleashed
Playing Fox’s favorite game, catch me if you can!
Hot days means more time inside. That doesn’t mean it can’t be fun! Use your trash to keep your dogs brain active this heat wave! #dogs #dogtraining #dogtrainer #dogenrichment #trashdog #beattheheat
One of my pet peeves is always adjusting the dog leash! Well we slipped the leash through the handle of their harness and magic! No more adjusting the leash!
No the behavior plan did not include teaching KayLee to pull cones out with her mouth. That was just the behavior she wanted to do to focus on something else besides the other dogs in class 😂 #Dogs #DogTraining #DogTrainer #TrainYourDog #ItsFun #DogJokes #TrainerJoke #GoofyGuy #WesterMa #WesternMass #FranklinCounty
When working on your dogs recall, an important skill is for your dog to run TO you and make contact, not past you. Maybe not like Fox, but I do love his enthusiasm when he gets to me! The goal is to be able to grab a dogs collar or harness when you call them to you. If they run right past you or play keep away, your dogs recall skill may not be strong enough to be off leash! That’s okay, there are plenty of fun games you can plan to improve your pups recall to YOU! #Dogs #DogTraining #DogTrainer #OffLeash #RecallTraining #OffLeashDogs
